Office profile
Pfizer Headquarters & offices · New York, New York
Pfizer · New York, New York
Eleven floors of a 1,031-foot tower wrapped in garden terraces — with a roof terrace over the Hudson, a two-story gym and seven “renew rooms”.
The tower, the floors Pfizer fitted out, the benefits and 177 years of New York addresses — then the pay. Every number from Pfizer's own filings, newsroom, careers pages and the architects' project pages.
- 11 floorsof The Spiral, for about 2,500 colleagues
- 12 weekspaid parental leave (U.S.)
- 15paid company holidays, incl. a wellness day
- $99,631median employee pay, 2025
Sources: pfizer.com (HQ grand opening, 2023) · Pfizer U.S. benefits candidate site · Proxy statement 2026 · Form 10-K 2025
Companies / United States / Pharmaceuticals / Pfizer
THE CURRENT HEADQUARTERS · THE SPIRAL · 2023
A garden that climbs the tower, and 11 floors for Pfizer
BIG designed The Spiral so that every office floor opens onto its own terrace, and the terraces wind up the 66-story tower like “a 1000-foot-tall vine”. Double-height spaces and grand staircases can link neighbouring floors. On Pfizer's floors there are four coffee bars and cafés, a two-story fitness center, a wellness studio, seven “renew rooms” and a 12,000 sq ft terrace on the 7th floor next to the cafeteria, where people can eat, perch on stepped seating or sit on sofas looking at the Hudson River.
- 11 floors · about 2,500 colleagues
- Tower: BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group)
- Pfizer fit-out: Gensler
- 7th-floor terrace: 12,000 sq ft (≈ 1,115 m²)
- Two-story fitness center
- LEED Gold tower
Facts: pfizer.com (grand opening article, 2023) · BIG project page “The Spiral” · RGR Landscape project page “66 Hudson Boulevard Terrace”
The Spiral, Hudson Yards
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| The Spiral (global headquarters) | 66 Hudson Boulevard East, New York, NY 10001 |
Source: Form 10-K 2025 cover page · See them on the map ↓
Source: BIG project page “The Spiral” · RGR Landscape project page · Pfizer lease press release (Apr 10, 2018) · pfizer.com grand opening article · Form 10-K 2022
Benefits (United States)
Paid, plus up to 14 more weeks unpaid for new parents.
Paid company holidays, including one wellness day.
Based on service, with the option to buy up to 4 more weeks.
Matching contribution up to 4.5% of pay, plus an automatic 5–9% retirement contribution even if you don't save.
Paid caregiver leave each year, plus company-subsidized back-up child and adult care.
Lifetime maximum for infertility and family-building services.
Up to $10,000 a year in educational assistance.
Yearly reimbursement for wellbeing products and services, including gym memberships.
Source: Pfizer Candidate Site – U.S. Benefits (uscandidates.mypfizerbenefits.com, “Benefits at a Glance” and “Life + Family”), linked from Pfizer job postings. For eligible non-union U.S. colleagues.
What keeps people at Pfizer: what the company itself says
Pfizer says it encourages work-life integration through flexible work arrangements.
A global recognition program where colleagues celebrate each other for living Pfizer's values.
An Office of the Ombuds, company-wide “safe space” calls and anonymous channels to raise concerns.
An annual colleague survey, plus focus groups and check-in surveys through the year.
“Project-Based Ways of Working” let colleagues take on leadership roles with training and coaching.
Pfizer runs a global pay equity analysis annually.
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Item 1 “Our People”
Who works here
employees worldwide, end of 2025
colleagues at the Hudson Yards headquarters
manufacturing plants around the world
owned and leased properties, about 36 million sq ft
Source: Form 10-K 2025 (employees, plants, properties) and 2023 (U.S. split) · pfizer.com grand opening article (HQ headcount)
Pay at Pfizer
The median employee works outside the U.S.; pay was converted to dollars. Includes cash pay of $95,111 and a pension change of $4,473. The CEO earned 277 times this amount.
Source: Proxy statement, March 12, 2026 (CEO pay ratio)
Source: Pfizer job posting 4965391 (2026). Base salary only; bonus target 20% of base plus long-term stock incentives.
U.S. companies don't have to report pay by age, and Pfizer doesn't. The posted salary range above is the closest official number.
Office history: 177 years, all in New York City
- 1849 A red brick building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Cousins Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhart founded Charles Pfizer & Company with a $2,500 loan from Pfizer's father. One humble red brick building served as office, lab, factory and warehouse.
Source: pfizer.com company timeline · “In Celebrating 175 Years” article
Pfizer's former Brooklyn plant at Flushing and Marcy Avenues, Williamsburg · Jim.henderson / CC0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1868 81 Maiden Lane, Manhattan
Pfizer bought and renovated a post-Revolutionary-era building at 81 Maiden Lane and moved its headquarters there, while the Brooklyn plant kept growing.
Source: pfizer.com company timeline
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1961 World Headquarters at 235 East 42nd Street
Pfizer set up a new World Headquarters in midtown Manhattan, a 33-story International Style tower by Emery Roth & Sons. It stayed there for more than 60 years.
Source: pfizer.com company timeline · Pfizer lease press release (2018) · building details: Wikipedia “Pfizer Building”
235 East 42nd Street · ajay_suresh / CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2018 A 20-year lease at The Spiral
In April 2018 Pfizer signed a 20-year lease for 15 floors of The Spiral, then under construction. In July 2018 it sold the 42nd Street headquarters and leased it back until the move.
Source: Pfizer press release, Apr 10, 2018 · Form 10-K 2018
Under construction, 2021 · CaptJayRuffins / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2023 The Spiral, 66 Hudson Boulevard
Pfizer moved its global headquarters to The Spiral in February 2023 and held the grand opening with New York's mayor. Today it uses 11 floors for about 2,500 colleagues.
Source: Form 10-K 2022 · pfizer.com grand opening article
The Spiral, 2021 · King of Hearts / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2024–27 The old headquarters becomes homes
Gensler is turning 219–235 East 42nd Street into more than 1,600 apartments — set to be the largest office-to-housing conversion in New York City's history when it is completed in 2027.
Source: Gensler project page “MetroLoft 219-235 East 42nd Street Conversion”
235 East 42nd Street, 2025 · Jim.henderson / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Map: how the headquarters moved
Pfizer has never left New York City: from a brick building in Williamsburg, across the East River to Maiden Lane, up to 42nd Street and then west to Hudson Yards — about 7 km from where it started.
- 1 · 1849Williamsburg, Brooklyn — First building: office, lab, factory and warehouse in one (Pfizer gives the neighbourhood, not the street; marker is approximate)
- 2 · 186881 Maiden Lane, Manhattan — Headquarters in a renovated post-Revolutionary-era building
- 3 · 1961235 East 42nd Street, Manhattan — World Headquarters for more than 60 years
- 4 · 2023The Spiral, 66 Hudson Boulevard East — Global headquarters today, 11 floors at Hudson Yards
Addresses: pfizer.com company timeline and “175 Years” article · Form 10-K (2015–2025 covers) · Locations: OpenStreetMap / Wikipedia coordinates
What Pfizer does
Pfizer develops and makes medicines and vaccines — from the Eliquis blood thinner and Prevnar pneumonia vaccines to cancer drugs it gained with Seagen in 2023. It describes its purpose as “Breakthroughs that change patients' lives.”
Three operating segments: Biopharma, Pfizer CentreOne (contract manufacturing) and Pfizer Ignite.
Where the money came from · Biopharma revenue by category, 2025
Source: Form 10-K 2025, Item 1 and MD&A “Revenues by Product” and “Revenues by Geography”
Source: Form 10-K 2025 · per-employee figure and R&D share calculated by eciffo
Growth: revenue vs. people
$52.8B → $62.6B
96,500 → 75,000
Calendar years. Revenue as first reported in each year's Form 10-K (SEC XBRL); later restatements differ slightly (e.g. 2022 restated to $101.2B). Employees: Form 10-K, December 31 of each year. Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Chairman and CEO. Became CEO in January 2019; since then Pfizer acquired Seagen (2023) and Metsera (2025) and moved its headquarters to The Spiral.
Became CEO in 2010 after leading Pfizer's worldwide biopharmaceutical businesses from 2006.
Founders: cousins Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhart (1849).
Source: pfizer.com executive leadership page (Albert Bourla) · pfizer.com company timeline
Pfizer: questions people ask
Where is Pfizer's headquarters?
In The Spiral at 66 Hudson Boulevard East, New York, NY 10001, at Hudson Yards on Manhattan's west side. Pfizer moved there in February 2023 from 235 East 42nd Street.
Source: Form 10-K 2025 cover · Form 10-K 2022
Who designed Pfizer's headquarters?
The Spiral tower was designed by BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) with Adamson Associates, for developer Tishman Speyer. Gensler was the fit-out architect for Pfizer's interior amenity and cafeteria floor, and RGR Landscape designed Pfizer's 7th-floor terrace.
Source: BIG project page · RGR Landscape project page
How big is Pfizer's headquarters?
Pfizer uses 11 floors of The Spiral for about 2,500 colleagues. The whole tower has 2.8 million sq ft (260,129 m²) over 66 stories and is 1,031.5 ft tall.
Source: pfizer.com grand opening article · BIG project page
What is inside Pfizer's New York office?
Four coffee bars and cafés, a two-story fitness center, a full outdoor terrace, a wellness studio and seven “renew rooms”. Every floor of the tower opens onto a planted terrace.
Source: pfizer.com grand opening article · BIG project page
Can you visit Pfizer's headquarters?
It is a private office tower with no public tours announced. Pfizer runs a School of Science program that brings New York public school students into its offices.
Source: pfizer.com grand opening article
How many people work at Pfizer?
About 75,000 people worldwide at the end of 2025, about 2,500 of them at the Hudson Yards headquarters.
Source: Form 10-K 2025 · pfizer.com grand opening article
What benefits does Pfizer offer in the U.S.?
12 weeks of paid parental leave, 15 paid holidays including a wellness day, 3–6 weeks of vacation, a 401(k) match of up to 4.5% plus an automatic 5–9% contribution, 10 paid caregiver days, up to $35,000 for family building and up to $10,000 a year for education.
Source: Pfizer Candidate Site – U.S. Benefits
Does Pfizer offer flexible or hybrid work?
Pfizer's annual report says it encourages work-life integration through flexible work arrangements, and its U.S. benefits list “Flex10 days” under working with flexibility.
Source: Form 10-K 2025 · Pfizer Candidate Site – U.S. Benefits
How much do Pfizer employees make?
The median employee's total compensation was $99,631 in 2025; that employee works outside the U.S. A 2026 posting for a Medical Director, open in New York and other U.S. sites, listed a base salary of $176,600–$294,300.
Source: Proxy statement 2026 · Pfizer job posting 4965391
Who is Pfizer's CEO?
Albert Bourla, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. He became CEO in January 2019.
Source: pfizer.com executive leadership page
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