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Morgan Stanley Headquarters & offices · New York, New York
Morgan Stanley · New York, New York
A Times Square tower with a stock-quote ticker wrapped around its base, and 16 weeks of paid leave for every new parent.
The 1585 Broadway headquarters, the benefits and 90 years of office moves from Wall Street to Midtown — then the pay. Every number from Morgan Stanley's own filings, careers pages and history site, and from the architects' project pages.
- 16 weekspaid parental leave for all parents
- 93%of employees proud to work there (2025)
- 1,335,500 sq ftglobal headquarters at 1585 Broadway
- $136,396median employee pay, 2025
Sources: morganstanley.com benefits page · Form 10-K 2025 and 2018 · Proxy statement 2026
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THE HEADQUARTERS · 1585 BROADWAY, TIMES SQUARE
A Times Square tower with a stock ticker built into its base
Morgan Stanley bought 1585 Broadway while it was still being built, and the Times Square signage was changed to include a continuous ticker-tape band of stock quotes, lit corner signs and vertical blade signs. Inside, Gwathmey Siegel designed the main lobby, executive offices, dining and meeting rooms and boardrooms on the 40th and 41st floors, and dining for 500 people on the lower level. A newer renovation designed by Gensler replaced parts of the original facade while the building stayed fully occupied.
- 1,335,500 sq ft (≈ 124,072 m²)
- Owned by Morgan Stanley
- Stock-quote ticker on the facade
- Dining for 500 people
- Renovation design: Gensler
- On-site health and fitness centers
The tower on Times Square
Gwathmey Siegel & Associates designed 1585 Broadway with Emery Roth & Sons, and Morgan Stanley added a continuous ticker-tape band of stock quotes to its Times Square signage.
The new facade and terraces (Gensler / Enclos)
A renovation designed by Gensler replaced the podium curtainwall and parts of the executive floors' facade with jumbo glass units while the building stayed fully occupied.
Office floors (Highland Associates)
When the law firm Proskauer Rose left its 17 floors, Morgan Stanley took the whole building and restacked its headquarters.
Facts: Donnally Architects project page “1585 Broadway” · Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman Architects project page · Enclos project page “1585 Broadway” · Form 10-K 2018 and 2025
1585 Broadway and the other headquarters
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| Global HQ and Institutional Securities HQ (owned) | 1585 Broadway, New York, NY 10036 |
| Wealth Management HQ (owned) | 2000 Westchester Avenue, Purchase, New York |
| Investment Management HQ (owned) | 522 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York |
| London HQ (leased) | 20 Bank Street, London |
| Hong Kong HQ (leased) | 1 Austin Road West, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
Source: Form 10-K 2018, Item 2 (Properties) · Form 10-K 2025 cover and Properties · See them on the map ↓
Source: Donnally Architects and Gwathmey Siegel Kaufman Architects project pages · Enclos project page “1585 Broadway” · Form 10-K 2018, Item 2
Benefits (United States)
Paid, for all parents, plus 6–8 weeks of medical leave after pregnancy.
Lifetime maximum for adoption, surrogacy and fertility treatment, including IVF and egg and sperm freezing.
Free, confidential sessions a year with a therapist or coach, for employees and dependents.
Paid leave to care for a seriously ill family member.
Free One Medical membership, in person and virtual, for adults and children.
Subsidized back-up care for children, plus help finding child care and tutors.
An employee stock purchase program, 401(k), and 529 plans with a company match.
Health centers, counselors, physical therapists, fitness centers and restorative suites in principal locations.
Source: morganstanley.com, “Benefits and Perks: Working at Morgan Stanley” (U.S.) · Form 10-K 2025, Human Capital
Why people stay: what Morgan Stanley itself reports
From the 2025 employee engagement survey, answered by 90% of employees.
Across all employees at the end of 2025; 25 years for the Management Committee.
Global share of employees who chose to leave during the year.
Tuition and licensing reimbursement, online courses and 10,000+ LinkedIn Learning videos.
A global network that connects colleagues with the firm's wellbeing programs, steered by a Global Wellbeing Board of senior leaders.
Groups that promote diversity and career development.
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Human Capital · morganstanley.com, “Benefits and Perks: Working at Morgan Stanley”
Who works here
employees (Dec 31, 2025)
countries
of officers are women
average length of service
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Human Capital Metrics
Pay at Morgan Stanley
Includes salary and incentive pay. The CEO earned 273 times this amount.
Source: Proxy statement 2026 (CEO pay ratio)
Source: Morgan Stanley job postings 549800007925, 549798011175 and 549785625587 (Sep–Oct 2026). Base pay only; bonuses and other incentives can be on top.
Morgan Stanley doesn't publish pay by age. Pay by level, above, is the closest official number.
Compare Morgan Stanley with: Goldman Sachs
Office history: from Wall Street to Times Square
- 1935 2 Wall Street — 13 people
Partners and staff from J.P. Morgan & Co. and Drexel & Co. left to found Morgan Stanley & Co. It opened on September 16, 1935, in a new office at 2 Wall Street, where some 200 vases of flowers arrived from friends and rivals. The firm started with a staff of just 13.
Source: ourhistory.morganstanley.com, “The Founding of Morgan Stanley” · morganstanley.com, Our History
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1967 140 Broadway
Morgan Stanley left its original offices at 2 Wall Street for nearby 140 Broadway. Within a few years it needed more space again.
Source: ourhistory.morganstanley.com, timeline (era 3)
140 Broadway · Ken Lund / CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1973 1251 Avenue of the Americas — leaving Wall Street
To build a large trading floor wired for computers, be a short walk from Grand Central and Penn Station, and be closer to corporate clients, the firm moved its headquarters to Midtown. By early 1995 its executive offices there covered 612,255 sq ft (≈ 56,880 m²), leased.
Source: ourhistory.morganstanley.com, timeline (era 3) · Morgan Stanley Group Form 10-K, filed April 1995
1251 Avenue of the Americas · Kidfly182 / CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1993–95 Buying 1585 Broadway in Times Square
Morgan Stanley bought 1585 Broadway in fiscal 1993 and 750 Seventh Avenue in fiscal 1994. In 1995 it moved about 4,100 New York employees there from leased space at 1221 and 1251 Avenue of the Americas; about 980,500 sq ft at 1585 Broadway would become the headquarters.
Source: Morgan Stanley Group Form 10-K, filed April 1995, Item 2
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1997 Merger with Dean Witter
Morgan Stanley merged with Dean Witter to form Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. The executive offices stayed at 1585 Broadway (about 958,000 sq ft), and the firm also leased 864,000 sq ft at Two World Trade Center.
Source: ourhistory.morganstanley.com, timeline (era 4) · Form 10-K for fiscal 1997, Item 2
1585 Broadway entrance, 1997 · LBM1948 / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2001 September 11
The firm was the largest tenant of the World Trade Center when it was attacked. Morgan Stanley's Rick Rescorla helped save thousands of lives; Morgan Stanley lost 13 employees.
Source: ourhistory.morganstanley.com, timeline (era 4)
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2010s The whole building
When the law firm Proskauer Rose vacated the 17 floors it had occupied, Morgan Stanley had the opportunity to occupy the entire building, and restacked its headquarters. Filings put its space at 1,346,500 sq ft in 2013 and 1,335,500 sq ft in 2018.
Source: Highland Associates project page · Appelquist Architects project “MSHQ” (Architizer, 2012) · Form 10-K 2013 and 2018, Item 2
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - Today A new facade while everyone stays inside
A renovation designed by Gensler is modernizing the 1990 tower. Enclos replaced the podium curtainwall and parts of the executive floors' facade with jumbo glass units up to 15 ft wide while the building remained fully occupied.
Source: Enclos project page “1585 Broadway”
The new podium facade · © Enclos
| Annual report | HQ space (sq ft) | m² | As described |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-K FY1994 | 980,500 | 91,091 | Planned HQ at 1585 Broadway (owned) |
| 10-K FY1997 | 958,000 | 89,001 | Occupied at 1585 Broadway (owned) |
| 10-K 2013 | 1,346,500 | 125,094 | 1585 Broadway, Global HQ (owned) |
| 10-K 2015 | 1,332,700 | 123,812 | 1585 Broadway, Global HQ (owned) |
| 10-K 2018 | 1,335,500 | 124,072 | 1585 Broadway, Global HQ (owned) |
Map: how the headquarters moved
From Wall Street to Times Square: in 90 years Morgan Stanley's headquarters moved about 6 km north through Manhattan, and has stayed at 1585 Broadway since 1995.
- 1 · 19352 Wall Street — First office, opened September 16, 1935
- 2 · 1967140 Broadway — A move a few blocks north in the Financial District
- 3 · 19731251 Avenue of the Americas — Headquarters moves to Midtown Manhattan
- 4 · 19951585 Broadway, Times Square — Global headquarters today, owned by Morgan Stanley
Addresses: ourhistory.morganstanley.com · Form 10-K, filed 1995 and 2026 · Locations: OpenStreetMap
What Morgan Stanley does
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm. It advises companies and trades securities for institutions, manages wealth for individuals, and runs investment funds.
Three business segments: Institutional Securities, Wealth Management and Investment Management.
Where the money came from · net revenues by segment, 2025
Source: Form 10-K 2025, segment results (before intersegment eliminations of $0.7B)
Source: Form 10-K 2025 · per-employee figure calculated by eciffo
Growth: revenue vs. people
$34.6B → $70.6B
55,311 → 83,000
Calendar years. Net revenues: SEC XBRL data from Morgan Stanley's 10-K filings. Employees: Form 10-K (exact counts to 2019; “approximately … thousand” from 2020). Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
CEO since January 2024 and Chairman since January 2025. Joined Morgan Stanley in 1990; previously Co-President and Head of Institutional Securities.
CEO until the end of 2023, then Executive Chairman; left the Board at the end of 2024.
Founded in 1935 by partners and staff of J.P. Morgan & Co. and Drexel & Co.; Harold Stanley was the first president.
Source: Proxy statement 2026 · Morgan Stanley press releases (Oct 2023, Ted Pick to become CEO; Ted Pick to become Chairman) · ourhistory.morganstanley.com
Morgan Stanley: questions people ask
Where is Morgan Stanley's headquarters?
At 1585 Broadway in Times Square, New York, NY 10036. Morgan Stanley owns the building, which is also the headquarters of its Institutional Securities business.
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Properties · Form 10-K 2018, Item 2
Who designed 1585 Broadway?
Gwathmey Siegel & Associates with Emery Roth & Sons designed the tower, completed in 1990. Gwathmey Siegel also designed Morgan Stanley's lobby, executive floors and dining spaces; a newer renovation is designed by Gensler.
Source: Donnally Architects and Gwathmey Siegel project pages · Enclos project page
How big is Morgan Stanley's headquarters?
Morgan Stanley's annual report listed 1,335,500 sq ft (≈ 124,072 m²) at 1585 Broadway in 2018. The tower is 685 ft tall.
Source: Form 10-K 2018, Item 2 · Enclos project page
Why does Morgan Stanley's building have a stock ticker?
Times Square zoning requires bright signage. When Morgan Stanley bought the building during construction, the signs were changed to include a continuous ticker-tape band of stock quotes.
Source: Donnally Architects project page “1585 Broadway”
Where was Morgan Stanley's first office?
At 2 Wall Street, where the firm opened on September 16, 1935. It moved to 140 Broadway in 1967 and to 1251 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown in 1973.
Source: ourhistory.morganstanley.com
How many people work at Morgan Stanley?
About 83,000 employees in 42 countries at the end of 2025: about 54,000 in the Americas, 19,000 in Asia and 10,000 in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Source: Form 10-K 2025
What benefits does Morgan Stanley offer?
In the U.S.: 16 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents, a $75,000 lifetime family-building benefit, 16 free therapy or coaching sessions a year, 4 weeks of paid family care leave and free One Medical membership.
Source: morganstanley.com, Benefits and Perks
How much do Morgan Stanley employees make?
The median employee's total compensation was $136,396 in 2025. 2026 New York postings for software engineers list expected base pay of $138,000–$150,000 (Associate) and $198,000–$210,000 (Vice President).
Source: Proxy statement 2026 · Morgan Stanley job postings
Who is Morgan Stanley's CEO?
Ted Pick, CEO since January 2024 and Chairman since January 2025. He joined Morgan Stanley in 1990.
Source: Proxy statement 2026 · Morgan Stanley press release
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