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Hilton Headquarters & offices · McLean, Virginia
Hilton · McLean, Virginia
A hotel-style food hall with six stations and a terrace at headquarters — and up to 110 discounted hotel nights a year for every Team Member.
The McLean headquarters, the perks and the road from a small Texas hotel in 1919 — then the pay. Every number from Hilton's own filings, careers site and newsroom.
- 110discounted Go Hilton nights a year
- 12 weeksfully paid leave for new birthing parents (U.S.)
- 32%of U.S. employees have been with Hilton 10+ years
- 182,000people employed or managed by Hilton, 2025
Sources: jobs.hilton.com/benefits-us · Form 10-K FY2025 · CORE architecture + design project page “Hilton Headquarters – The Social”
Companies / United States / Hotels & Hospitality / Hilton
THE SOCIAL · HEADQUARTERS GROUND FLOOR · 2017
A 10,000 sq ft food hall and terrace built to feel like a Hilton hotel
In a major renovation, CORE architecture + design turned the ground floor of Hilton's McLean headquarters into “The Social”, a public gathering space that mirrors the experience of Hilton's hotels. It mixes eating, working and reception: a Food Hall with six food stations, each with its own look, plus flexible work and team space with the feel of a restaurant. An operable glass wall opens onto an Outdoor Terrace that works as an extension of the workspace and can host headquarters events.
- 10,000 sq ft interiors (≈ 929 m²)
- 6,300 sq ft outdoor space (≈ 585 m²)
- Six food stations
- Operable glass wall to the terrace
- Interiors completed Nov 2017
- Design: CORE architecture + design
The Social: food hall (2017)
CORE architecture + design turned the ground floor into a food hall with six food stations, each with its own look.
Work lounge and meeting space
The Social mixes eating, working and reception, with flexible work and team space that has the feel of a restaurant.
Facts: CORE architecture + design, project page “Hilton Headquarters – The Social” (Archinect firm profile; photos by Michael Moran). Photos are shown with credit to the architect and photographer; we remove any photo on request.
The headquarters building
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Hilton headquarters | 7930 Jones Branch Drive, Suite 1100, McLean, VA 22102 |
Source: Form 10-K FY2025 (cover page and Item 2) · See them on the map ↓
Source: stories.hilton.com history timeline (2009 move) · Form 10-K FY2020 (rentable area, last year disclosed) · Form 10-K FY2025 (lease) · CORE project page
Benefits (United States)
Discounted nights a year; Team Member rates from $40, 50% off for family and friends, 50% off at participating hotel restaurants.
Every new parent gets 4 weeks fully paid; birthing parents get 8 more weeks, 12 weeks in total.
Hilton Shares ESPP: buy Hilton stock through after-tax payroll deductions.
100% of the first 3% of pay, plus 50% of the next 2%.
Per eligible child, with no limit on the number of adoptions.
10 Team Members a year get a paid month off to live or give a dream; Thrive Reset gives one week plus $2,000.
Degrees, high school completion and certificates through Guild, for eligible Team Members.
Base group life and disability coverage is fully paid by Hilton.
Source: jobs.hilton.com/benefits-us (U.S. benefits) · Form 10-K FY2025, Human Capital Management (ESPP)
Why people stay: what Hilton itself says
About 32% of Hilton's U.S. employees have been with the company for at least 10 years.
Hilton focuses on internal moves and promoting people from entry-level jobs into hotel and corporate management.
A framework for developing Team Members at every career step, plus Hilton University and People Leader Essential training.
Open to Team Members through Hilton's partnership with LinkedIn Learning.
Hours employees reported volunteering in their local communities.
A platform of awards, e-cards, toolkits and a global recognition calendar.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025, Human Capital Management · jobs.hilton.com/benefits-us
Who works here
employed or managed at Hilton's leased and managed hotels and corporate offices
more people work for third-party owners at franchised Hilton hotels
of people working for Hilton in the U.S. are covered by collective bargaining agreements (25% globally)
countries and territories with Hilton properties
Source: Form 10-K FY2025 (as of December 31, 2025)
Pay at Hilton
Most of the people Hilton employs or manages work in hotels. The CEO earned 549 times this amount ($27,692,276). Hilton used the median employee it identified in 2023.
Source: Hilton proxy statement for the 2026 annual meeting (DEF 14A), Pay Ratio
Compare Hilton with: Marriott International
Office history: from a Texas boom-town hotel to McLean
- 1919 The Mobley, Cisco, Texas
Conrad Hilton went to Cisco to buy a bank and bought a local hotel, The Mobley, instead. Hilton counts this as the start of the company.
Source: stories.hilton.com, The Story of Hilton (history timeline)
The Mobley, Cisco, Texas · Renelibrary / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1925 The first hotel named Hilton, Dallas
The first hotel formally named a Hilton opened in Dallas. Service areas were put on the west side so no guest room faced the hot afternoon sun.
Source: stories.hilton.com, The Story of Hilton
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1946 Hilton Hotels Corporation is formed
The company was organized in Delaware on May 29, 1946, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange — the first hotel company to be listed.
Source: Hilton Hotels Corporation Form 10-K 2006 · stories.hilton.com history timeline
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2006 9336 Civic Center Drive, Beverly Hills
Hilton Hotels Corporation's principal executive offices were at 9336 Civic Center Drive in Beverly Hills, California.
Source: Hilton Hotels Corporation Form 10-K for 2006 (cover page and Item 1)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2009 Move to McLean, Virginia
Hilton Hotels Corporation changed its name and logo to Hilton Worldwide and moved its headquarters from Beverly Hills to McLean, Virginia. The former Beverly Hills headquarters building was sold in January 2011.
Source: stories.hilton.com history timeline · Form 10-K FY2013
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2013 7930 Jones Branch Drive — 177,653 sq ft
The McLean headquarters at 7930 Jones Branch Drive consisted of about 177,653 sq ft (≈ 16,505 m²) of leased space. Hilton returned to the New York Stock Exchange the same year.
Source: Form 10-K FY2013 · stories.hilton.com history timeline
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2017 The Social opens on the ground floor
CORE architecture + design completed a 10,000 sq ft food hall, work and reception space in November 2017, with a 6,300 sq ft outdoor terrace to follow in spring 2018.
Source: CORE architecture + design, project page “Hilton Headquarters – The Social”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2020 About 248,000 sq ft, lease to 2037
Leased space grew to about 271,000 rentable sq ft (2019) and stood at about 248,000 (2020). Since the 10-K for 2022, the headquarters lease is listed as running to April 2037.
Source: Form 10-K FY2019, FY2020, FY2022 and FY2025
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
| Annual report | HQ space (sq ft) | m² | As described |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-K 2013 | 177,653 | 16,505 | Leased space, 7930 Jones Branch Drive |
| 10-K 2015 | 180,464 | 16,766 | Leased space |
| 10-K 2017 | ≈ 223,000 | ≈ 20,717 | Rentable, leased |
| 10-K 2018 | ≈ 238,000 | ≈ 22,111 | Rentable, leased |
| 10-K 2019 | ≈ 271,000 | ≈ 25,177 | Rentable, leased |
| 10-K 2020 | ≈ 248,000 | ≈ 23,040 | Rentable, leased (last year the area was disclosed) |
Map: how the headquarters moved
From a small hotel in a Texas oil town to Beverly Hills, then across the country to McLean, Virginia, outside Washington, D.C., in 2009.
- 1 · 1919The Mobley, Cisco, Texas — Conrad Hilton's first hotel
- 2 · 20069336 Civic Center Drive, Beverly Hills — Hilton Hotels Corporation headquarters until 2009
- 3 · 20097930 Jones Branch Drive, McLean — Hilton headquarters today
Addresses: Hilton Hotels Corporation Form 10-K 2006 · Hilton Form 10-K FY2025 · stories.hilton.com history timeline (Cisco, Texas)
What Hilton does
Hilton started with one small hotel in Cisco, Texas, in 1919. Today it is one of the largest global hospitality companies: 9,158 properties with 1,351,351 rooms in 143 countries and territories, most of them managed or franchised for other owners.
Two reporting segments: Management and franchise, and Ownership.
Where the money came from · Revenue by type, 2025
Source: Form 10-K FY2025, consolidated statements of operations (management fees = base and other $376M + incentive $313M)
Source: Form 10-K FY2025, Item 1 and Item 7
Growth: revenue vs. people
$8.1B → $12.0B
163,000 → 182,000
Fiscal years end December 31. Revenue: SEC XBRL financial data from Hilton's 10-K filings (latest reported figure for each year). People: Form 10-K of each year (“employ or manage”, includes managed-hotel staff; 2017–2019 stated as “more than”). Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Joined Hilton as President and CEO in December 2007 and has been a director since then. Earlier he was President and CEO of Host Hotels & Resorts.
Succeeded his father as president of the domestic Hilton Hotels Corporation in 1966.
Founder. Bought The Mobley in Cisco, Texas, in 1919; president of Hilton Hotels Corporation until his son Barron succeeded him.
Founder: Conrad N. Hilton.
Source: Hilton proxy statement 2026 (Nassetta) · stories.hilton.com history timeline (Conrad and Barron Hilton)
Hilton: questions people ask
Where is Hilton's headquarters?
At 7930 Jones Branch Drive, Suite 1100, McLean, Virginia 22102. Hilton leases the building; the lease runs to April 2037.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025
When did Hilton move its headquarters to McLean?
In 2009, when Hilton Hotels Corporation became Hilton Worldwide and moved its headquarters from Beverly Hills, California, to McLean, Virginia.
Source: stories.hilton.com history timeline
Where was Hilton's headquarters before McLean?
At 9336 Civic Center Drive in Beverly Hills, California. Hilton sold that former headquarters building in January 2011.
Source: Hilton Hotels Corporation Form 10-K 2006 · Hilton Form 10-K FY2013
How big is Hilton's headquarters?
The last figure Hilton published was about 248,000 rentable sq ft (≈ 23,040 m²) of leased space, in its annual report for 2020. In 2013 it was 177,653 sq ft.
Source: Form 10-K FY2020 and FY2013
What is The Social at Hilton headquarters?
A 10,000 sq ft ground-floor food hall, work and reception space with six food stations and a 6,300 sq ft outdoor terrace, designed by CORE architecture + design and completed in 2017–2018.
Source: CORE architecture + design project page
Where did Hilton start?
In Cisco, Texas, in 1919, when Conrad Hilton bought The Mobley, a local hotel, instead of the bank he had come to buy.
Source: stories.hilton.com history timeline
What benefits does Hilton offer?
In the U.S.: up to 110 discounted Go Hilton hotel nights a year, 4 weeks of fully paid parental leave (12 weeks for birthing parents), a 15% discount on Hilton stock, a 401(k) match on up to 5% of pay, $10,000 adoption assistance and tuition-free education through Guild.
Source: jobs.hilton.com/benefits-us
How many people work at Hilton?
About 182,000 people were employed or managed by Hilton at its leased and managed hotels and corporate offices at the end of 2025. About 328,000 more worked for third-party owners at franchised hotels.
Source: Form 10-K FY2025
How much do Hilton employees make?
The median employee's total compensation was $50,461 in 2025. Most Hilton employees work in hotels.
Source: Hilton proxy statement 2026
Who is Hilton's CEO?
Christopher J. Nassetta, who joined Hilton as President and CEO in December 2007.
Source: Hilton proxy statement 2026
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