Production Companies in Washington, DC

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
  13 of 190 companies (7%)
  company records — equipment, transport, stages, post, art, costume and VFX
• →People employed in film1y behind
  4,039 (2014) → 4,334 (2023)
  BLS QCEW, NAICS 5121 — 518 employers, $69M in quarterly wages
• ↑Film businesses1y behind
  399 (2014) → 518 (2023)
  BLS QCEW, NAICS 5121 — establishments paying wages, which is a different question from headcount
• ↑Quarterly pay per worker1y behind
  $11,795 → $15,956
  BLS QCEW, NAICS 5121 — not inflation-adjusted, so read the direction rather than the figure
• →Titles released2y behind
  158 → 146 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.