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Honeywell Headquarters & offices · Charlotte, North Carolina
Honeywell · Charlotte, North Carolina
A Sky Lobby on the 23rd floor, more than 300 sensors on every office floor and a whole floor just for amenities.
The Charlotte tower, the benefits and 140 years of moves from Minneapolis to New Jersey to Uptown Charlotte — then the pay. Every number from Honeywell's own filings, benefits site and the architects' project pages.
- 300+sensors on every office floor
- 1,200people the 10 office floors can hold
- 8 weekspaid parental leave (U.S.)
- $85,048median employee pay, 2025
Sources: HOK project page “Experience Honeywell’s Global HQ” · benefits.honeywell.com (2026) · Proxy statement 2026
Companies / United States / Industrial technology & automation / Honeywell
THE HEADQUARTERS · HONEYWELL TOWER · 2021
A smart tower in Uptown Charlotte that doubles as a living lab
HOK designed the interiors of Honeywell's global headquarters: the main lobby was moved up to a 23rd-floor Sky Lobby with views of Uptown and Bank of America Stadium, a white-oak feature stair links it to the floors below, and the whole 14th floor is given to amenities. Honeywell supplies all the building technology, so every floor works as a test bed for its own products.
- 202,000 sq ft interiors (≈ 18,765 m²)
- Up to 1,200 employees
- 300+ sensors per floor
- LEED Gold
- Interiors: HOK
- Building: LS3P
Honeywell Tower, Charlotte
HOK designed Honeywell's headquarters floors in the tower at 855 South Mint Street, opened in 2021.
Facts: HOK project page “Experience Honeywell’s Global HQ” · LS3P project page “Legacy Union Honeywell Tower” · honeywell.com history.
Honeywell Tower, Legacy Union, Uptown Charlotte
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Honeywell Tower (global HQ) | 855 South Mint Street, Charlotte, NC 28202 |
Source: Form 10-K 2025 and 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026 (cover page) · See them on the map ↓
Source: honeywell.com history (313,000 sq ft, 2021, LEED Gold) · HOK project page (202,000 sq ft) · LS3P project page (684,680 sq ft incl. parking, completed 2022, LEED Gold)
Benefits (United States)
Honeywell matches the first 8% of eligible pay at 87.5% — up to 7% of base salary. The match vests after three years.
As much time away as needed, agreed with your manager. Non-exempt employees earn vacation every month.
Seven shared across all sites, five decided locally.
For birth, adoption or foster placement. With short-term disability, birth mothers get up to 14–16 weeks paid.
Lifetime maximum per covered person, plus help with adoption expenses.
In-center or in-home back-up care through Bright Horizons each year.
Yearly maximum for undergraduate / graduate courses (full-time employees).
Free therapy sessions through the Employee Assistance Program, worldwide, for employees and family members.
Source: benefits.honeywell.com (Save for retirement, Time away, Changes in your personal life, Raising children, Continuing your education; 2026) · Honeywell job postings (2026) · Form 10-K 2025
How Honeywell keeps people, in its own words
Managers must hold semi-annual career discussions with each team member, used to find people for internal promotion.
Accelerator Learning, Honeywell's learning platform, has more than 600 virtual modules for new and long-time employees.
Nine employee networks, open to everyone and voluntary.
An annual survey of all employees worldwide, with action plans for leaders at every level.
Employee Assistance Programs or therapy sessions for all employees and their family members worldwide.
Vimal Kapur had spent 34 years at Honeywell when he was named CEO in 2023.
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Human Capital Management · Honeywell press release, March 14, 2023
Who works here
employees at the end of 2025
countries
moved to Honeywell Aerospace in the June 2026 spin-off
more run U.S. government labs for Honeywell (not counted)
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Human Capital Management (excludes Sandia National Laboratories and the Kansas City National Security Campus) · Honeywell Aerospace press release, June 29, 2026. Shares calculated by eciffo.
Pay at Honeywell
The CEO, Vimal Kapur, earned an estimated 239 times this amount.
Source: Proxy statement, April 10, 2026 (CEO pay ratio)
U.S. companies don't have to report pay by age, and Honeywell doesn't.
Office history: Minneapolis, New Jersey, then Charlotte
- 1885 Albert Butz's “damper flapper”
Inventor Albert Butz patented a furnace regulator and alarm — a forerunner of the thermostat — and started the business that became Honeywell. W. R. Sweatt bought it in 1898 and by 1916 named it Minneapolis Heat Regulator Company.
Source: honeywell.com, “Innovating since 1885”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1906 Mark Honeywell's heating company
Young engineer Mark Honeywell formed the Honeywell Heating Specialty Co., making hot-water heat generators.
Source: honeywell.com, “Innovating since 1885”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1927 Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co.
The two heating companies merged. W. R. Sweatt became chairman and Mark Honeywell president.
Source: honeywell.com, “Innovating since 1885”
The Minneapolis Heat Regulator Company building · Roth, Arnold D / Public domain · Wikimedia Commons - 1998 Honeywell Plaza, Minneapolis — 957,400 sq ft
Honeywell Inc.'s principal executive offices at Honeywell Plaza in Minneapolis covered about 957,400 sq ft (≈ 88,945 m²), all owned. The company had about 57,000 employees.
Source: Honeywell Inc. Form 10-K405 for 1998
The Honeywell headquarters in Minneapolis, 1972 · Roger Wollstadt / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1999 To AlliedSignal's campus in Morris Township, New Jersey
AlliedSignal acquired Honeywell and kept the Honeywell name. The headquarters moved to AlliedSignal's headquarters and administrative complex at 101 Columbia Road, Morris Township, New Jersey.
Source: honeywell.com history · AlliedSignal Form 10-K 1998 · Honeywell Form 10-K 1999
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2015 115 Tabor Road, Morris Plains
The address of the principal executive offices changed from 101 Columbia Road to 115 Tabor Road in Morris Plains, New Jersey.
Source: Form 10-K 2014 and 2015 (cover pages)
115 Tabor Road, Morris Plains, 2016 · David Joseph Photography / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2018–19 Moving to Charlotte
On November 30, 2018 Honeywell announced it would move its global headquarters to Charlotte, with 150–200 senior management roles from New Jersey. Until the new tower was ready, the headquarters address was 300 South Tryon Street.
Source: Honeywell press release, Nov 30, 2018 · Form 10-K 2019 and 2020 (cover pages)
300 South Tryon, Charlotte, 2023 · City Dweller 2 / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2021 Honeywell Tower opens at 855 South Mint Street
The new 313,000 sq ft headquarters opened with touchless technology and LEED Gold certification for both the building and the fit-out.
Source: honeywell.com history · Form 10-K 2021 (cover page)
Honeywell Tower, 2025 · Quintin Soloviev / CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2026 Honeywell Technologies stays in Charlotte
Honeywell Aerospace was spun off on June 29, 2026 with headquarters in Phoenix. The remaining company, Honeywell Technologies, kept its headquarters at 855 South Mint Street.
Source: Honeywell Aerospace press release, June 29, 2026 · Form 10-Q, quarter ended June 30, 2026
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 1998 | 957,400 | 88,945 | Honeywell Plaza, Minneapolis (owned) |
| 2021 | 313,000 | 29,079 | Honeywell Tower, Charlotte (honeywell.com) |
Map: how the headquarters moved
From an owned 957,400 sq ft complex in Minneapolis to New Jersey in 1999, and on to a tower in Uptown Charlotte in 2021.
- 1 · 1998Honeywell Plaza, Minneapolis — Honeywell Inc. headquarters until the 1999 merger
- 2 · 1999101 Columbia Road, Morris Township, NJ — AlliedSignal's headquarters complex becomes Honeywell's
- 3 · 2015115 Tabor Road, Morris Plains, NJ — New Jersey headquarters until the move south
- 4 · 2019300 South Tryon Street, Charlotte — Temporary Charlotte headquarters
- 5 · 2021Honeywell Tower, 855 South Mint Street, Charlotte — Global headquarters today
Addresses: Honeywell Inc. 10-K405 (1998), AlliedSignal 10-K (1998), Honeywell Form 10-K covers (2014–2025) · Locations: OpenStreetMap
What Honeywell does
Honeywell started with a furnace regulator in 1885. Today it builds automation for factories, process plants and buildings. In June 2026 it spun off its aerospace business and now runs as Honeywell Technologies.
Four reportable segments in 2025: Aerospace Technologies (spun off as Honeywell Aerospace on June 29, 2026), Industrial Automation, Building Automation, and Energy and Sustainability Solutions. Solstice Advanced Materials was spun off on October 30, 2025.
Where the money came from · net sales by segment, 2025
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Review of Business Segments
Source: Form 10-K 2025 · SEC XBRL · per-employee figure calculated by eciffo
Growth: revenue vs. people
$40.3B → $37.4B
127,000 → 101,000
Calendar years, as reported each year. Revenue: SEC XBRL from Honeywell's 10-K filings. Employees: Form 10-K (approximate; from 2021 excluding the Sandia and KCNSC workforces). Spin-offs in this period: Resideo and Garrett Motion (2018), Solstice Advanced Materials (2025). Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
CEO since June 2023 and Chairman since June 2024; a 34-year Honeywell veteran when named.
CEO from 2017, Chairman from 2018; led the move to Charlotte.
Chairman and CEO from July 2002.
Roots: Albert Butz (furnace regulator, 1885), W. R. Sweatt (owner from 1898) and Mark Honeywell (Honeywell Heating Specialty Co., 1906).
Source: Form 10-K 2025 and 2015 (executive officers) · Honeywell press release, March 14, 2023 · honeywell.com history
Honeywell: questions people ask
Where is Honeywell's headquarters?
At 855 South Mint Street in Charlotte, North Carolina — Honeywell Tower in the Legacy Union development. Honeywell Technologies kept this address after the 2026 aerospace spin-off.
Source: Form 10-K 2025 · Form 10-Q Q2 2026
When did Honeywell move to Charlotte?
Honeywell announced the move from Morris Plains, New Jersey on November 30, 2018. It used 300 South Tryon Street as its address from 2019, and the new tower at 855 South Mint Street opened in 2021.
Source: Honeywell press release, Nov 30, 2018 · Form 10-K 2019–2021 · honeywell.com history
Who designed Honeywell's headquarters?
LS3P designed Honeywell Tower and HOK designed Honeywell's interiors, including the 23rd-floor Sky Lobby and Customer Experience Center.
Source: LS3P and HOK project pages
How big is Honeywell's headquarters?
Honeywell describes its headquarters as a 313,000 sq ft (≈ 29,079 m²) building; HOK's interiors cover 202,000 sq ft over 10 office floors for up to 1,200 employees.
Source: honeywell.com history · HOK project page
What is inside Honeywell's headquarters?
A Sky Lobby, Customer Experience Center, café and Learning Center on the 23rd floor; work cafés on every floor; and a 14th-floor amenities level with a fitness center, a wellness center with on-site healthcare, a 220-seat town hall and a broadcast studio.
Source: HOK project page
Where was Honeywell headquartered before?
In Minneapolis (Honeywell Plaza) until the 1999 merger with AlliedSignal, then at 101 Columbia Road, Morris Township, New Jersey, and from 2015 at 115 Tabor Road, Morris Plains.
Source: Honeywell Inc. 10-K405 1998 · Honeywell Form 10-K covers
What benefits does Honeywell offer?
In the U.S.: a 401(k) match of up to 7% of base salary, flexible vacation for exempt employees, 12 paid holidays, 8 weeks of paid parental leave, up to $20,000 of fertility coverage and 25 back-up child care visits a year.
Source: benefits.honeywell.com
Does Honeywell have unlimited vacation?
Exempt employees can take as much time away as they need, agreed with their manager. Non-exempt employees earn vacation each month.
Source: benefits.honeywell.com, Time away
How many people work at Honeywell?
About 101,000 employees in 79 countries at the end of 2025, about 36,000 of them in the U.S. More than 36,000 moved to Honeywell Aerospace in the June 2026 spin-off.
Source: Form 10-K 2025 · Honeywell Aerospace press release
How much do Honeywell employees make?
The median employee's total compensation was $85,048 in 2025. The CEO's pay was about 239 times that.
Source: Proxy statement 2026
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