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- Disney has established itself as a formidable No. 2 to Netflix in streaming.
- Business Insider combed through public data to get a snapshot of how much Disney pays US employees.
- The company has offered base salaries from $96,782 to $400,000 for streaming and other jobs.
Disney is one of the more coveted places to work in streaming as it's cemented itself as a top player after Netflix.
The House of Mouse had some 225 million paid subscribers across Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ as of the end of 2023.
And while the company cut thousands of jobs in 2023, streaming is still a hiring focus. Disney listed 75 direct-to-consumer openings on its site, including content programmers, software engineers, and designers.
Business Insider updated its analysis of how much Disney pays for jobs based on salary-data disclosures from late 2021 to 2023. Disney jobs can pay annual salaries from $96,782 to $400,000 a year.
The public data, released by the US Department of Labor's Office of Foreign Labor Certification, shows how much Disney said it would pay foreign staffers it wanted to hire in the US on work visas. Companies are legally required to pay foreign workers the same wages as domestic hires, so the data gives pretty good insight into what Disney offers for a range of roles, mostly in tech.
The data included 135 salaries at Hulu and 103 salaries across other divisions of Disney, including streaming jobs. It included base salaries only, not forms of compensation such as stock options or cash bonuses.
Our full analysis breaks down salaries for specific jobs, including at Hulu and in Disney's streaming, consumer products, parks, and other divisions.