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10 highest paying companies for Animators

• 1. Meta

  Zippia score 4.8
  Average animator salary: $152,101
  #1 highest paying company for animators
  Company description:

  Facebook is an online social networking service that allows its users to connect with friends and family as well as make new connections. It provides its users with the ability to create a profile, update information, add images, send friend requests, and accept requests from other users. Its features include status update, photo tagging and sharing, and more. Facebook's profile structure includes a timeline, information related to the user, images of the user, images added by friends of the user, notes, pages, groups, and more. It enables its users to create pages related to entertainment, sports, business, finance, preferences, hobbies, culture, religion, causes, organizations, and a number of other categories. It also enables its users to join or create groups related to a vast number of categories. With millions of more users, Friendster attempted to acquire the company for $10 million in mid-2004. Facebook turned down the offer and subsequently received $12.7 million in funding from Accel Partners at a valuation of around $100 million. Facebook continued to grow opening up to high school students in September 2005 and adding a photo sharing feature the next month. The next spring, Facebook received $25 million in funding from Greylock Partners and Meritech Capital as well as previous investors Accel Partners and Peter Thiel . The pre-money valuation for this deal was about $525 million. Facebook subsequently opened up to work networks eventually amassing over 20,000 work networks. Finally in September 2006, Facebook was opened to anyone with an email address. Facebook continued to receive funding most notably in January 2011 receiving $1.5 billion and valuing the company at $50 billion. A year later in February 2012, Facebook announced that it was filing for its long-anticipated initial public offering. The company went public on May 18, 2012 opening in NASDAQ with shares trading at $42.05. Facebook announced positive numbers in February 2012 upon filing for its IPO. As of July 2013 over 1.15 billion users have logged into Facebook every month and 669 million users daily. Mobile users now make up half of Facebook's user base with 819 million monthly actives. Facebook is one of the most trafficked sites in the United States. Additionally, Facebook is the top photo sharing site with 250 million photos uploaded per day. The company has strategic partnership with AXA Group to develop marketing and commercial collaboration in the digital, social, and mobile sphere. Facebook is currently the owner of many applications and services such as Pagemodo Pagebuilder, RSS Graffiti , Huddle, and more. It is the world's largest social network with over 1.32 billion monthly active users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg on February 4, 2004 in Menlo Park, California.

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• 2. Airbnb

  Zippia score 4.6
  Average animator salary: $146,701
  #2 highest paying company for animators
  Company description:

  Airbnb is a community marketplace for people to list, discover and book unique spaces around the world through mobile phones or the internet. Airbnb connects travelers seeking authentic experiences with hosts offering unique, inspiring spaces around the world. Airbnb is a trusted online marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations and experiences around the world. Unlock local experiences and travel through the eyes of a local. Whether the available space is a castle for a night, a sailboat for a week, or an apartment for a month, Airbnb is the easiest way for people to showcase these distinctive spaces to an audience of millions. By facilitating bookings and financial transactions, Airbnb makes the process of listing or booking a space effortless and efficient. With 4,500,000 listings in over 65,000 cities in 191 countries, Airbnb offers the widest variety of unique spaces for everyone, at any price point around the globe. Airbnb was founded in August 2008 by Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, and is currently headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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• 3. Microsoft

  Zippia score 4.8
  Average animator salary: $142,631
  #3 highest paying company for animators
  Company description:

  Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft's devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses Windows operating system and related software; Microsoft Office for consumers; and Windows Phone operating system. The company's computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C other segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft's commercial licensing segments licenses server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial other segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online. Microsoft Corporation was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1974. It is based in Redmond, Washington.

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• 4. Amazon

  Zippia score 4.7
  Average animator salary: $128,512
  #4 highest paying company for animators
  Company mission statement:

  To serve consumers through online and physical stores and focus on selection, price, and convenience.

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• 5. The Walt Disney Company

  Zippia score 4.6
  Average animator salary: $122,899
  #5 highest paying company for animators
  Company highlights:

  Walt Disney Parks and Resorts (WDPR), opened in Anaheim, CA in July 1955, is one of the world's leading providers of family travel and leisure experience. WDPR is comprised of six world-class vacation destinations with 12 theme parks and 52 resorts, also a Disney Cruise Line, Disney Vacation Club, Adventures by Disney, Disney Resort & Spa, and Walt Disney Imagineering. It operates in North America, Europe and Asia and has more than 150,000 cast members.

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• 6. Vox Media

  Zippia score 4.2
  Average animator salary: $118,562
  #6 highest paying company for animators
  Company description:

  Vox Media is an independent modern media company focused on building the best media brands and the technology that enables them.

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• 7. Datadog

  Zippia score 4.2
  Average animator salary: $115,774
  #7 highest paying company for animators
  Company description:

  Datadog is the essential monitoring platform for cloud applications. We bring together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.

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• 8. Pixar Animation Studios

  Zippia score 4.6
  Average animator salary: $114,404
  #8 highest paying company for animators
  Company description:

  A CGI Animation Company. Pixar began as the computer graphics project of the Computer Division at Lucasfilm Ltd, created in 1979. The Computer Division was led by Ed Catmull and the graphics project (soon called Pixar) was run by Alvy Ray Smith. Pixar was a hardware company developing highend image processing tools - in particular the Pixar 2D Frame Buffer. In 1984 they hired John Lasseter to help them produce their first animated film, primarily to demonstrate the power of their hardware. Over the years Lasseter created more animated shorts to demonstrate the Pixar, in 1986 creating Luxo Jr. Pixar was spun out of Lucasfilm and was purchased by Steve Jobs in 1986, at which point it became an independent company, although still a hardware company, and run by Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith. Failing to grow the hardware business, they became increasingly dependent on revenue from their animated projects, first doing commercials. Eventually they made a deal with Disney to produce the first full-length feature film entirely in CG. Jobs was not very focused on Pixar, and was trying to sell it in the early 90s. But on the strength of early viewings of Toy Story, he instead took Pixar public. The rest is history. Pixar was acquired by The Walt Disney Company in 2006, making Jobs the largest shareowner in Disney.

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• 9. Anki

  Zippia score 4.4
  Average animator salary: $110,528
  #9 highest paying company for animators
  Company description:

  Anki was a robotics and artificial intelligence startup that put robotics technology in products for children.

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• 10. Warner Bros.

  Zippia score 4.6
  Average animator salary: $105,030
  #10 highest paying company for animators
  Company description:

  Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., d/b/a Warner Bros., is an American entertainment company headquartered in Burbank, California and a subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia.

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