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Goldman Sachs Headquarters & offices · New York, New York
Goldman Sachs · New York, New York
One 45-story tower for every New Yorker at the firm: a stainless-steel-and-glass headquarters that curves toward the Hudson River, with six trading floors and a two-story sky lobby.
Inside 200 West Street in Battery Park City, opened in November 2009 by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners — the floors, the benefits and more than 150 years of Lower Manhattan offices since a one-room shop on Pine Street, then the pay. Every number from Goldman Sachs' own filings, careers pages and history archive, and the architects' project pages.
- 2.1M sq ftheadquarters (≈ 195,096 m²)
- 45stories, 740 ft tall
- 9,000+people work in the tower
- 20 weeksminimum paid parental leave
Sources: Form 10-K 2025 · Pei Cobb Freed & Partners project page · Heintges project page (headcount in the tower)
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THE HEADQUARTERS · 200 WEST STREET · 2009
A 2.1 million sq ft tower that brought New York under one roof
200 West Street was designed to consolidate the firm's scattered New York offices in a single building. Its sides follow the two street grids of Lower Manhattan, while the west façade sweeps in a curve toward the Hudson River; three setbacks step the stainless-steel-and-glass skin down as it rises. Inside are six large trading floors, a two-story sky lobby halfway up, conference centers, a fitness center and a cafeteria. Unusually wide 10-ft curtain-wall panels let daylight deep into the offices, and a glass-roofed walkway lined with shops runs through the block between Brookfield Place (the former World Financial Center) and the north of Battery Park City.
- 2.1M sq ft (≈ 195,096 m²)
- 45 stories · 740 ft (≈ 226 m)
- 6 trading floors · 2-story sky lobby
- Fitness center and cafeteria
- LEED Gold (2010)
- Design: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Facts: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners project page “200 West Street” · Heintges project page · Adamson and AAI project page · Form 10-K 2025, Item 2.
200 West Street, Battery Park City
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| 200 West Street (global HQ) | 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282 |
| 30 Hudson Street (Jersey City offices, completed 2004) | 30 Hudson Street, Jersey City, NJ 07302 |
| Plumtree Court (European HQ) | Plumtree Court, London, United Kingdom |
Source: Form 10-K 2025 and 2009, Item 2 · goldmansachs.com Featured Offices · See them on the map ↓
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Item 2 · Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, Adamson and AAI and Heintges project pages · goldmansachs.com history (2005 groundbreaking). m² converted by eciffo.
Benefits (United States)
A minimum of 20 weeks of paid parental leave.
Up to four weeks paid, for a family member's serious illness, fostering a child, a death in the family or miscarriage.
A minimum expected vacation of 15 days for everyone; managing directors have no fixed vacation entitlement.
Dollar-for-dollar on up to 6% of pay, up to $12,500 a year; vests after two years.
A 2% fixed contribution if pay is under $125,000, plus an additional retirement contribution of up to $4,000.
On-site child care centers in some offices with full-time and emergency back-up care, plus mother-and-baby and homework rooms.
Stipends for adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval.
Counseling through the Employee Assistance Program, on site in larger offices; 1,500+ staff certified in Mental Health First Aid.
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Human Capital Management · The Goldman Sachs 401(k) Plan, Form 11-K for 2025 (filed Jun 12, 2026) · goldmansachs.com/careers/benefits. Fitness club reimbursement, on-site health centers and a menopause support program are also offered. All offerings vary by location.
Why people stay: what Goldman Sachs itself describes
Across all employees at the end of 2025; the Management Committee averages about 23 years at the firm.
Nearly 45% of the firm's partners first joined as campus hires.
About 20,000 employees worked with some 700 nonprofits on 1,500 projects through Community TeamWorks.
Internal mobility is a stated focus, to keep top talent and build future leaders.
Reviews come from supervisors, co-workers and the people you manage, plus three goal conversations a year.
Sabbatical leave is available for tenured employees.
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Human Capital Management · goldmansachs.com/careers/benefits
Who works here
employees (Dec 2025)
countries with offices
home countries; 175+ languages spoken
work in “strategic locations” such as Bengaluru, Salt Lake City and Dallas
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Human Capital Management
Pay at Goldman Sachs
Calculated under SEC rules. The CEO's 2025 total compensation in the Summary Compensation Table ($118.9M) was about 740 times this amount.
Source: Proxy statement 2026 (filed Mar 20, 2026), Pay Ratio Disclosure
Source: Goldman Sachs job postings 185524 (Analyst, Capital Solutions Group), 180700 (Associate, Software Engineer) and 169165 (Vice President, Senior Software Engineer) on higher.gs.com. Base salary only; a discretionary bonus may be paid on top. Different roles, so treat as examples.
U.S. companies don't have to report pay by age, and Goldman Sachs doesn't. Pay by corporate title, above, is the closest official number.
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Office history: 150 years within walking distance of Wall Street
- 1869 A one-room shop on Pine Street
Marcus Goldman, a Bavarian-born immigrant, moved his family to New York and set up a one-room office on Pine Street, buying and selling promissory notes. In his first year he traded more than $5 million in commercial paper.
Source: goldmansachs.com, History: 1869 founding · 1929 30 Pine Street
Pine Street, Manhattan · Clyde Charles Brown / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1894 9 Pine Street and 10 Wall Street
Twenty-five years on, the firm had five partners, including Samuel Sachs, and offices at 9 Pine Street and 10 Wall Street, steps from the New York Stock Exchange.
Source: goldmansachs.com, History: 1894
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1929–30 30 Pine Street — the first building of its own
The firm bought the building next door and put up a 20-story headquarters designed by Archibald F. Gilbert on the very site of Marcus Goldman's first office. The top floors held partners' offices, dining rooms and a gym with a squash court — later turned into the Investment Banking floor.
Source: goldmansachs.com, History: 1929 30 Pine Street
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1957 20 Broad Street
Goldman Sachs left 30 Pine Street for 20 Broad Street; the old building was demolished in the early 1960s for the Chase Manhattan plaza.
Source: goldmansachs.com, History: 1929 30 Pine Street
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1967 55 Broad Street
A new 30-story building at Broad and Beaver Streets became the headquarters. By 1976 the firm's offices at 55 Broad Street and 55 Water Street totaled about 270,000 sq ft (≈ 25,084 m²).
Source: goldmansachs.com, History: 1983 85 Broad Street · years at 55 Broad Street: Wikipedia
55 Broad Street, 2024 · SnowFire / CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1983 85 Broad Street — 30 stories, 12 sides
Planned in 1980 to bring about 1,500 New York employees together, the red-brown granite tower rose on the site of New Amsterdam's 17th-century Stadt Huys (town hall); finds from a year-long archaeological dig were put on show in the lobby. By 1999 it held about 969,000 sq ft (≈ 90,023 m²).
Source: goldmansachs.com, History: 1983 85 Broad Street · Form 10-K 1999, Item 2
85 Broad Street · Paulo.belli / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2005 Breaking ground in Battery Park City
The firm leased a parcel from the Battery Park City Authority in August 2005 and broke ground on November 29 for a headquarters that would consolidate all of its New York City people in one building.
Source: goldmansachs.com, History: 2005 groundbreaking · Form 10-K 2006, Item 2
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2009 200 West Street opens
The new headquarters opened for business on November 16, 2009. Teams moved in through the following year; the last people arrived over the weekend of December 17, 2010.
Source: goldmansachs.com, History: 2005 groundbreaking · Form 10-K 2009, Item 2
200 West Street · Photo: Jeff McCloud / Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
| Annual report | HQ space (sq ft) | m² | As described |
|---|---|---|---|
| History, 1976 | ≈ 270,000 | ≈ 25,084 | 55 Broad Street and 55 Water Street together |
| 10-K FY1999 | 969,000 | 90,023 | 85 Broad Street, leased |
| 10-K FY2004 | ≈ 1,000,000 | ≈ 92,903 | 85 Broad Street, leased |
| 10-K FY2009 | ≈ 2,100,000 | ≈ 195,096 | 200 West Street (gross) |
| 10-K FY2025 | ≈ 2,100,000 | ≈ 195,096 | 200 West Street |
Map: how the headquarters moved
Every headquarters since 1869 has stood within about a mile of the first one-room office on Pine Street — first around Wall and Broad Streets, then west to the Hudson in Battery Park City.
- 1 · 1869Pine Street (site of 30 Pine Street) — Marcus Goldman's one-room office
- 2 · 18949 Pine Street — Offices at 9 Pine Street and 10 Wall Street
- 3 · 193030 Pine Street — The firm's first own building, 20 stories
- 4 · 195720 Broad Street — Headquarters next to the Stock Exchange
- 5 · 196755 Broad Street — 30-story headquarters at Broad and Beaver
- 6 · 198385 Broad Street — 30-story, 12-sided tower, until 2009
- 7 · 2009200 West Street — Global headquarters in Battery Park City
Addresses: goldmansachs.com History · Form 10-K (1999–2025) · Locations: OpenStreetMap
What Goldman Sachs does
Goldman Sachs advises companies on mergers and raising money, makes markets in stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities, and manages money for institutions and wealthy individuals. It is a bank holding company; its U.S. bank, Goldman Sachs Bank USA, is chartered in New York State.
Three reporting segments: Global Banking & Markets, Asset & Wealth Management, and Platform Solutions (mainly the Apple Card business being transferred out).
Where the money came from · Net revenues by segment, 2025
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Item 1 and Results of Operations (segment changes from Q4 2025)
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Executive Overview and Asset & Wealth Management · per-employee figure calculated by eciffo
Growth: revenue vs. people
$30.8B → $58.3B
32,400 → 47,400
Fiscal years end in December. Revenue: total net revenues, SEC XBRL financial data from Goldman Sachs' 10-K filings. Employees: headcount at year-end (employees only, excluding consultants and temporary staff), Form 10-K 2018–2025; 2016 and 2017 as restated in the 2018 10-K. Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Chief Executive Officer since October 2018 and Chairman since January 2019. Joined in 1999; previously President and COO, and co-head of Investment Banking.
Joined through J. Aron in 1982, became Chairman and CEO in 2006 and led the firm through the 2008 financial crisis.
Chairman and CEO from the May 1999 IPO until he became U.S. Treasury Secretary in 2006.
Founder: Marcus Goldman (1869). His son-in-law Samuel Sachs joined in 1882.
Source: Proxy statement 2026 (Solomon) · goldmansachs.com History and press release, Jul 17, 2018 · Form 10-K 1999 (Paulson)
Hear it from the CEO
Goldman Sachs: questions people ask
Where is Goldman Sachs' headquarters?
At 200 West Street in Battery Park City, Lower Manhattan, New York — a 45-story tower across Vesey Street from Brookfield Place and just north of the World Trade Center site.
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Item 2 · Pei Cobb Freed & Partners
Who designed 200 West Street?
Henry N. Cobb of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, with Jay L. Berman; Adamson Associates was architect of record. Heintges consulted on the façade, Halcrow Yolles on the structure and Ken Smith on the landscape.
Source: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners · Adamson and AAI · Heintges
How big is the Goldman Sachs headquarters?
About 2.1 million sq ft (≈ 195,096 m²) over 45 stories, 740 ft (≈ 226 m) tall, with six trading floors and a two-story sky lobby. More than 9,000 people work there.
Source: Form 10-K 2025 · Pei Cobb Freed & Partners · Heintges
When did Goldman Sachs move to 200 West Street?
Ground was broken on November 29, 2005, and the building opened for business on November 16, 2009. The last employees moved in over the weekend of December 17, 2010, leaving 85 Broad Street, the headquarters since 1983.
Source: goldmansachs.com, History
Can you visit 200 West Street?
The offices are a private workplace, but the glass-covered walkway with shops that runs through the block is a public passage between Brookfield Place and the north of Battery Park City.
Source: Pei Cobb Freed & Partners project page
Where was Goldman Sachs founded?
In a one-room office on Pine Street in Lower Manhattan in 1869. In 1930 the firm opened its own 20-story building, 30 Pine Street, on the same site.
Source: goldmansachs.com, History
What benefits does Goldman Sachs offer?
At least 20 weeks of paid parental leave, up to four weeks of paid family care leave, a minimum of 15 vacation days expected, a 401(k) match of 6% up to $12,500 plus extra firm contributions, on-site child care with back-up care in some offices, and stipends for adoption, surrogacy and egg freezing.
Source: Form 10-K 2025 · Form 11-K 2025 · goldmansachs.com/careers/benefits
Does Goldman Sachs allow remote or flexible work?
With manager approval, part-time schedules, job sharing, telecommuting and alternate hours may be available, according to the firm's careers site.
Source: goldmansachs.com/careers/benefits
How much do Goldman Sachs employees make?
The median employee's total compensation was $160,667 in 2025. New York job postings list expected base salaries of $110,000–$125,000 for an Analyst, $115,000–$180,000 for an Associate and $150,000–$300,000 for a Vice President, plus a possible bonus.
Source: Proxy statement 2026 · job postings 185524, 180700, 169165
How many people work at Goldman Sachs and who is the CEO?
47,400 employees in more than 35 countries at the end of 2025. David Solomon has been CEO since October 2018 and Chairman since January 2019.
Source: Form 10-K 2025 · Proxy statement 2026
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