Chipotle Mexican Grill: Number of Employees 2012-2026 | CMG

Interactive chart of Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) annual worldwide employee count from 2012 to 2026.
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill total number of employees in 2025 was 131,534, a 0.79% increase from 2024.
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill total number of employees in 2024 was 130,504, a 12.44% increase from 2023.
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill total number of employees in 2023 was 116,068, a 10.59% increase from 2022.
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill total number of employees in 2022 was 104,958, a 7.47% increase from 2021.
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Chipotle Mexican Grill Annual Employee Count
2025 131,534
2024 130,504
2023 116,068
2022 104,958
2021 97,660
2020 88,000
2019 83,000
2018 73,000
2017 68,890
2016 64,570
2015 59,330
2014 53,090
2013 45,340
2012 37,310
2011 30,940
Sector Industry Market Cap Revenue
Retail/Wholesale Retail - Food & Restaurants $42.303B $11.926B
Chipotle Mexican Grill, together with its subsidiaries, operates quick-casual and fresh Mexican food restaurant chains. The company offers a focused menu of burritos, tacos, burrito bowls (a burrito without the tortilla) and salads. Chipotle restaurants feature free-range, hormone-free pork, natural chicken and other meat products cooked through traditional methods and served in a unique atmosphere. Chipotle classifies its restaurants as end-caps (at the end of a line of retail chains), in-lines (in a line of retail chains), free-standing units and others.
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