Number of employees at The New York Times Company 2012-2023

In 2023, The New York Times Company had 5,900 full-time equivalent employees, including over 2,700 in the company's journalism operations. After a sharp drop in employee numbers between 2012 and 2013 due to the company’s sale of New England Media Group, there were just 3,529 people working for The NYT Company, but the figure has grown more or less consistently year-on-year ever since.

The NYT Company has various media properties, NYTimes.com, as well as The New York Times Magazine, Book Review, Style Magazine, and International Edition, and most notably, namesake newspaper The New York Times, which is arguably the company’s most successful product.

The New York Times employees: diversity

The New York Times performs well as far as gender equality is concerned. Data on employee gender distribution at The New York Times shows that the share of men and women working for the company tends to hover around 50 percent, outperforming competing newspaper The Washington Post in this regard. The breakdown of employees by gender at The Washington Post reveals that the share of women working for the newspaper increased by just three percent in five years, and male employees still account for close to 60 percent of the total workforce.

By contrast, The Washington Post reported that 20 percent of its workforce in 2020 was Black or African American, whereas at The NYT the figure was just nine percent. The distribution of employees at The New York Times by ethnicity revealed that over 60 percent of the company’s workforce was White, and the only other ethnic group with representation of more than ten percent were Asian employees, who made up 14 percent of NYT employees in 2020.