Production Companies in San Francisco, CA

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

Sources disagree. People employed in film is the more current reading — it runs 1 year behind against two to three for release credits.

• →Crew and vendor depthcurrent
  52 of 335 companies (16%)
  company records — equipment, transport, stages, post, art, costume and VFX
• →People employed in film1y behind
  7,191 (2017) → 6,430 (2023)
  BLS QCEW, NAICS 5121 — 489 employers, $191M in quarterly wages
• ↑Film businesses1y behind
  403 (2017) → 489 (2023)
  BLS QCEW, NAICS 5121 — establishments paying wages, which is a different question from headcount
• →Quarterly pay per worker1y behind
  $31,548 → $29,681
  BLS QCEW, NAICS 5121 — not inflation-adjusted, so read the direction rather than the figure
• ↑New companies founded1y behind
  4 → 5 across two five-year periods
  company records — founding years are sparse and skew to companies that still have a website
• ↑Titles released2y behind
  123 → 169 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.