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Meta Headquarters & offices · Menlo Park, California
Meta · Menlo Park, California
Work under a 3.6-acre rooftop garden with more than 200 trees, in a building designed by Frank Gehry.
The Frank Gehry buildings, a rooftop garden and how Facebook moved from Palo Alto to the edge of San Francisco Bay — then the pay. Numbers from Meta's filings, newsroom and job postings.
- 4,619 → 78,865people, 2012 → 2025
- 3.6 acresrooftop garden on MPK 21
- $388,200median employee pay
- $2.5Mrevenue per employee
Sources: Form 10-K 2025 · Proxy statement 2026 · about.fb.com (Sept 4, 2018) · metacareers.com
Companies / United States / Social media & AI / Meta
THE NEWEST OFFICE · MPK 21 · 2018
A Frank Gehry building with a park on the roof
MPK 21, designed by Frank Gehry and built in under 18 months, has a 3.6-acre rooftop garden with more than 200 trees, a “Town Square” with 40-foot redwoods, a 2,000-person event space and 1.4 MW of solar panels. It joins MPK 20 across a courtyard called The Bowl.
- 3.6-acre rooftop garden
- 200+ trees
- 2,000-person event space
- 1.4 MW solar
- Design: Gehry Partners
MPK 21, by Frank Gehry (photos from Meta, 2018)
Around the Menlo Park campus
Facts: about.fb.com, “Expanding our home in Menlo Park” (Sept 4, 2018). Photos: Wikimedia Commons, credited on each photo. MPK 21 photos: Meta newsroom, “Expanding Our Home in Menlo Park” (about.fb.com, 2018).
Menlo Park
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | 1 Meta Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025 |
Source: Form 10-K 2025 cover · See them on the map ↓
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Item 2 · about.fb.com (2018)
Office tour videos
Benefits and pay extras
Offers list base pay “+ bonus + equity + benefits”.
Severance pay, all remaining PTO paid out, RSU vesting through the last day, continued health coverage, career services and immigration support.
Many learning and development resources.
Five places to eat along MPK 21's main path (2018).
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Human Capital · metacareers.com · about.fb.com (2018). Meta's detailed benefit numbers are on pages we could not load, so we leave them out.
What Meta says it offers its people
Median total compensation in 2025, including salary, bonus and stock.
Postings list pay “+ bonus + equity + benefits”.
A wide range of benefits including many learning and development resources.
U.S. severance includes pay for remaining PTO, RSU vesting through the last day and continued health coverage.
Offices in more than 90 cities around the world.
MPK 21's rooftop garden has over 200 trees and a half-mile path.
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Human Capital · Proxy statement 2026 · about.fb.com (2018) · metacareers.com postings
Who works here
employees (Dec 31, 2025)
cities with Meta offices
growth since 2012 (4,619)
headcount change 2022 → 2023, after cost cuts
Source: Form 10-K 2025, 2023 and 2012
Pay at Meta
Salary, bonus or commission and stock granted in 2025. The CEO earned 65 times this amount.
Source: Proxy statement 2026
Source: metacareers.com postings 1552795169327162 and 933751172631170 (2026). Bonus, equity and benefits are on top.
Meta doesn't publish pay by age. Pay ranges in job postings are the closest official number.
Compare Meta with: Google
Office history: Palo Alto to the bay
- 2009 1601 California Avenue, Palo Alto
Facebook moved into this Palo Alto building on May 14, 2009, its last home before Menlo Park.
Source: Move date from the photo’s Wikimedia Commons caption
1601 California Ave, Palo Alto, May 2009 · Coolcaesar / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2012 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park
By its first annual report as a public company, Facebook's address was 1601 Willow Road in Menlo Park, on the bay. It leased about 2.2 million sq ft of offices and data centers worldwide.
Source: Form 10-K 2012, cover and Item 2
Menlo Park from the air, December 2011 · Jitze Couperus from Los Altos Hills, California, USA / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2014 1 Hacker Way
The campus entrance carried the address 1 Hacker Way.
Source: Photo caption, Wikimedia Commons
1 Hacker Way, 2014 · LPS.1 / CC0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2018 MPK 21 by Frank Gehry
MPK 21 opened with a 3.6-acre rooftop garden, linked to MPK 20 by a courtyard called The Bowl.
Source: about.fb.com, Sept 4, 2018
The campus, September 2019 · Pi.1415926535 / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2022– 1 Meta Way
After the company renamed itself Meta, the headquarters address became 1 Meta Way. Meta now owns and leases about 10 million sq ft around Menlo Park.
Source: Form 10-K 2023–2025 covers and Item 2
Meta HQ, 2023 · InvadingInvader / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
| Annual report | HQ space (sq ft) | m² | As described |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-K 2012 | 2,200,000 | 204,387 | All leased offices and data centers, worldwide |
| 10-K 2025 | ≈ 10,000,000 | ≈ 929,030 | HQ and surrounding area, owned + leased |
Map: how the headquarters moved
About 8 km: from a California Avenue office in Palo Alto to the edge of San Francisco Bay in Menlo Park.
- 1 · 2009–20111601 California Avenue, Palo Alto
- 2 · 2011–today1 Hacker Way / 1 Meta Way, Menlo Park
Addresses: Form 10-K covers · Locations: OpenStreetMap · Basemap © Esri
What Meta does
Meta runs Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Threads and earns almost all its money from ads on them. Reality Labs builds glasses and headsets.
Two segments: Family of Apps and Reality Labs.
Where the money came from · revenue by segment, 2025
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Segment results
Source: Form 10-K 2025 · SEC XBRL · ratios calculated by eciffo
Growth: revenue vs. people
$5.1B → $201.0B
4,619 → 78,865
Calendar years. Revenue: SEC XBRL. Employees: Form 10-K. Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Founder, Chairman and CEO.
Founder: Mark Zuckerberg.
Source: Proxy statement 2026 · meta.com leadership
Meta: questions people ask
Where is Meta's headquarters?
1 Meta Way, Menlo Park, California (formerly 1 Hacker Way and 1601 Willow Road).
Source: Form 10-K covers
How many people work at Meta?
78,865 employees on December 31, 2025.
Source: Form 10-K 2025
How much do Meta employees make?
The median employee's total compensation was $388,200 in 2025. 2026 Menlo Park postings list $173,000–$237,000 (SDET) and $271,000–$347,000 (Software Engineer, Technical Leadership), plus bonus and equity.
Source: Proxy statement 2026 · metacareers.com
What is Meta's CEO pay ratio?
65 to 1 in 2025: the CEO earned $25,125,904.
Source: Proxy statement 2026
Who designed Meta's headquarters?
Frank Gehry designed MPK 20 and MPK 21. MPK 21 has a 3.6-acre rooftop garden.
Source: about.fb.com (2018)
When did Facebook move to Menlo Park?
Facebook was in Palo Alto (1601 California Ave from May 2009); its first annual report as a public company, for 2012, gives 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park.
Source: Form 10-K 2012 · Wikimedia Commons caption
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