Production Companies in New York, NY

Projects credited to companies based here. A production-base measure, not where the camera was.

Sources disagree. Filming permits issued is the more current reading — it runs 0 years behind against two to three for release credits.

• ↑Filming permits issuedcurrent
  4,640 (2023) → 5,491 (2025)
  New York open data — a permit is a shoot on a specific street on a specific day
• →Crew and vendor depthcurrent
  181 of 3,051 companies (6%)
  company records — equipment, transport, stages, post, art, costume and VFX
• →People employed in film1y behind
  47,229 (2014) → 51,824 (2023)
  BLS QCEW, NAICS 5121 — 3,372 employers, $1,548M in quarterly wages
• →Film businesses1y behind
  2,937 (2014) → 3,372 (2023)
  BLS QCEW, NAICS 5121 — establishments paying wages, which is a different question from headcount
• ↑Quarterly pay per worker1y behind
  $23,182 → $29,864
  BLS QCEW, NAICS 5121 — not inflation-adjusted, so read the direction rather than the figure
• ↓New companies founded1y behind
  150 → 83 across two five-year periods
  company records — founding years are sparse and skew to companies that still have a website
• ↑Titles released2y behind
  2,483 → 3,134 across two five-year periods
  credits via TMDB — counts releases, so it trails what is shooting by two to three years

Each figure comes from a named source and is shown with how far behind it runs. Nothing here is a rating or an estimate.