Zoom Communications ended its fiscal 2026 with 7,438 full-time employees on January 31, 2026. International staff outnumbered U.S. staff for the second year running, 3,981 to 3,457. This post breaks down Zoom’s headcount, its regional split, executive pay levels, and how staffing settled after the 2023 job cuts.
Zoom Employee Statistics 2026
How Many Employees Does Zoom Have In 2026?
Zoom reported 7,438 full-time employees as of January 31, 2026, in its annual report on Form 10-K. That is 26 more than the 7,412 reported a year earlier.
Headcount has barely moved across three fiscal years. The total sat at 7,420 in January 2024, dipped to 7,412 in January 2025, then edged back up.
What did move is the geography. U.S. headcount fell in each of the past two years while international headcount rose in each.
| Fiscal year ended | Total full-time employees | United States | International |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 31, 2024 | 7,420 | 3,797 | 3,623 |
| January 31, 2025 | 7,412 | 3,568 | 3,844 |
| January 31, 2026 | 7,438 | 3,457 | 3,981 |
Source: Zoom Communications annual reports on Form 10-K, fiscal years ended January 31, 2024, 2025 and 2026
Zoom Employee Statistics 2026 By Region
The crossover happened between January 2024 and January 2025. U.S. staff made up the larger group at the start of that window and the smaller group by the end of it.
Zoom’s 10-K splits headcount into two buckets only, United States and international locations, so no country-level breakdown is published.
Revenue tells a different story than headcount. Sales from outside the Americas, meaning APAC and EMEA combined, accounted for 27.9% of Zoom’s total revenue in fiscal 2026, against total revenue of $4,868.8 million.
Source: Zoom Communications Form 10-K, fiscal year ended January 31, 2026
Where Zoom’s Product Teams Sit
Zoom describes research and development teams spread across Asia-Pacific, EMEA and North America, running what it calls a follow-the-sun development model. The prior year’s filing named China, India, Singapore and the United States as the research locations.
A workforce split across that many time zones leans on home offices as much as on floor plans, which is why work-from-home productivity research and practical desk setup ideas from remote professionals have become standard reading for distributed teams.
Zoom Employee Pay In 2026
Zoom discloses salary figures only for its named executive officers. Founder and chief executive Eric S. Yuan held a base salary of $450,000 for fiscal 2026, unchanged from fiscal 2025.
Chief financial officer Michelle Chang carried the highest base salary of the four at $580,000.
| Named executive officer | Position | Fiscal 2026 base salary |
|---|---|---|
| Eric S. Yuan | President and Chief Executive Officer | $450,000 |
| Michelle Chang | Chief Financial Officer | $580,000 |
| Aparna Bawa | Chief Operating Officer | $450,000 |
| Velchamy Sankarlingam | President of Product and Engineering | $468,000 |
Source: Zoom Communications proxy statement (DEF 14A) filed April 30, 2026, covering fiscal year ended January 31, 2026
Cash bonus targets climbed sharply. Effective February 1, 2025, Yuan’s target rose from 8% of base salary to 64%, and the targets for Bawa and Sankarlingam both rose from 8% to 49%.
Zoom paid out at 102.6% of target for each named executive officer in fiscal 2026, based on revenue and non-GAAP income from operations goals.
| Named executive officer | Fiscal 2026 bonus target (% of base salary) |
|---|---|
| Eric S. Yuan | 64% |
| Michelle Chang | 90% |
| Aparna Bawa | 49% |
| Velchamy Sankarlingam | 49% |
Source: Zoom Communications proxy statement (DEF 14A) filed April 30, 2026, covering fiscal year ended January 31, 2026
Yuan’s reported total compensation for fiscal 2026 came in about 62.6% below fiscal 2025 and about 95.4% below fiscal 2024, which the company attributes to smaller equity awards. Zoom granted no supplemental equity awards in fiscal 2026 and no new four-year refresh grant to its CEO.
What Zoom Employees Get Beyond Salary
Total compensation packages combine base pay, bonuses or sales commissions, and equity, according to the fiscal 2026 filing.
Listed benefits include healthcare, mental health and fertility coverage, time off programs, an employee stock purchase plan, charitable gift matching through Zoom Cares, and a book reimbursement plan for continuous learning.
Zoom states that maintaining a flexible working environment remains a priority, a stance echoed by the makers behind setups like this wooden home desk built by a developer in Italy.
How Many Executives And Directors Does Zoom Have?
Zoom listed four executive officers as of March 31, 2026. Chief operating officer Aparna Bawa resigned effective May 8, 2026, an announcement the company made on April 2, 2026.
The board sits at eight members after director Peter Gassner resigned during fiscal 2026. Seven of the eight qualify as independent under Nasdaq listing standards.
Non-employee directors each received a stock award with a grant date fair value of $277,360 in fiscal 2026. Cash retainers ran from $20,027 to $97,500 depending on tenure and committee roles.
| Governance measure | Fiscal 2026 figure |
|---|---|
| Executive officers listed | 4 |
| Board members | 8 |
| Independent directors | 7 |
| Annual board service retainer | $45,000 |
| Lead independent director retainer | $65,000 |
Source: Zoom Communications proxy statement (DEF 14A) filed April 30, 2026, covering fiscal year ended January 31, 2026
Zoom Employee Statistics 2026 After The 2023 Job Cuts
On February 7, 2023, Yuan told staff in a blog post that Zoom would cut roughly 15% of its team, around 1,300 people.
Affected U.S. employees were offered up to 16 weeks of salary and healthcare coverage, their earned fiscal 2023 annual bonus, and six months of RSU and stock option vesting. Non-U.S. vesting ran through August 9, 2023.
Zoom’s next reported year-end figure, 7,420 on January 31, 2024, is the first published headcount that follows that reduction. The three years since have stayed inside a band of 26 employees.
Nothing in the fiscal 2026 filing points to a further company-wide reduction. For workers weighing a distributed role either way, tours such as a minimalist home office in Malaysia and a dual-purpose work and gaming station in Zurich show what long-term remote arrangements look like in practice.
Zoom Employee Statistics 2026: Union Status And Awards
None of Zoom’s U.S. employees are represented by a labor union. Employees at two non-U.S. subsidiaries have a collective bargaining agreement and are represented by a workers’ council.
Zoom reports no interruptions of operations or work stoppages from labor disagreements.
On the recognition side, the company cites five consecutive years on Fortune’s Most Admired Companies list, a place on Fast Company’s 2025 Most Innovative Companies list, and Forbes’ 2025 America’s Best Midsize Employers list.
Source: Zoom Communications Form 10-K, fiscal year ended January 31, 2026
Isolation remains the trade-off nobody solves with hardware, a point made bluntly in this account of going fully remote.
FAQs
How many employees does Zoom have in 2026?
Zoom Communications reported 7,438 full-time employees as of January 31, 2026, the end of its fiscal 2026. That figure comes from the company’s own annual report on Form 10-K.
Does Zoom employ more people outside the United States?
Yes. As of January 31, 2026, Zoom reported 3,981 employees in international locations and 3,457 in the United States.
Reddit threads say Zoom is much smaller than it was. Is that right?
Zoom’s filed headcount has held steady rather than shrunk lately. It reported 7,420 employees in January 2024, 7,412 in January 2025 and 7,438 in January 2026.
Are the Zoom layoff posts on Reddit backed by a filing?
The last company-wide cut Zoom announced was in February 2023, when CEO Eric Yuan said about 1,300 roles, roughly 15% of staff, would go. No further company-wide reduction appears in the fiscal 2026 report.
What is the Zoom CEO’s salary?
Eric S. Yuan’s base salary was $450,000 for fiscal 2026, unchanged from fiscal 2025. His cash bonus target rose to 64% of base salary effective February 1, 2025.
Sources
https://investors.zoom.us/static-files/7370d7ce-5293-4f6f-b91e-6eb90c9a37b3
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001585521/000162828026028866/zm-20260430.htm
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