Nintendo hires at least 455 full-time staff as total headcount surpasses 5,600
| Date | Type | Companies Involved | Key Datapoint |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 2025 | report | Nintendo | 5,630 employees |
Nintendo has at least 5,630 full-time employees, with upwards of 455 new hires joining the company during its last fiscal year.
Data from Nintendo’s latest employee records, spotted by Go Nintendo, revealed that 3,855 full-time employees at Nintendo are male and 1,775 are female, with the largest gender disparity being in Japan - where 2,270 full-time workers are male while only 692 are female.
This means that just 23% of employees in Nintendo’s home country are female.
The figures presented were accurate as of March 2025, the end of Nintendo’s latest fiscal year, but the games giant noted that the total number of men and women at the company doesn’t necessarily match its entire headcount.
Employee records also revealed that Nintendo Australia has the most gender-balanced workforce, but the smallest overall. 50 full-time employees are male and 49 are female.
In the US, meanwhile, 39% of employees accounted for by the data are female, with 566 women compared to 880 men. In Europe, 42% of employees are female, with 468 women versus 655 men.
For the long-haul
The records also revealed Nintendo’s low turnover of employees, especially in Japan. There, the average full-time employee spends 14.4 years with the Mario maker and the turnover rate is less than 2%.
Nintendo Europe has the second-longest average length of service, at 11.1 years. The turnover rate is 6%.
Meanwhile, the US comes slightly behind at 10 years but has a 5% turnover rate, and Nintendo Australia sees employees stay for an average of 8.5 years with a turnover rate of almost 18%.
Over the course of the last fiscal year, Nintendo averaged 172 temporary employees across its locales. The year ended with 226 people with disabilities working at the company and 171 people taking childcare leave.
100% of full-time staff in Japan and Australia received regular reviews about career development, as did 90% of staff in Europe and 87% in the US. Men were slightly more likely to receive such reviews in the US whereas women were in Europe.
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