# Apple Inc. employees

entity: /record/apple.md  
predicate: employees  
page: /record/apple/employees  
as_of: 2026-11-01  

As of November 1, 2026, Apple Inc.'s employee count on the AsOf record is 166,000, dated September 27, 2025, from a primary source (sec.gov). The record holds 3 claims on Apple Inc.'s employee count, 1 still open and 2 superseded, each dated and sourced; a replaced value is closed with an end date, never deleted.

## Current employees

What the record asserts on 2026-11-01.

- [Apple Inc.](/record/apple.md) | employees | 166,000 | valid 2025-09-27 to present | conf 0.95 | valid | [clm_F17DE22BEFFD](/claim/clm_F17DE22BEFFD.md)
  sources: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019325000079/aapl-20250927.htm

## Every dated value

One claim per line, oldest first. Superseded claims stay visible.

- [Apple Inc.](/record/apple.md) | employees | 116,000 | valid 2016-09-24 to 2017-09-30 | conf 0.95 | superseded | superseded_by [clm_7F97905E9377](/claim/clm_7F97905E9377.md) | [clm_5581CFE3C004](/claim/clm_5581CFE3C004.md)
  sources: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000162828016020309/a201610-k9242016.htm, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312
- [Apple Inc.](/record/apple.md) | employees | 132,000 | valid 2018-09-29 to 2020-09-26 | conf 0.95 | superseded | superseded_by [clm_446B5E61076F](/claim/clm_446B5E61076F.md) | [clm_8A6721EB33EA](/claim/clm_8A6721EB33EA.md)
  sources: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019318000145/a10-k20189292018.htm, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q312
- [Apple Inc.](/record/apple.md) | employees | 166,000 | valid 2025-09-27 to present | conf 0.95 | valid | [clm_F17DE22BEFFD](/claim/clm_F17DE22BEFFD.md)
  sources: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000032019325000079/aapl-20250927.htm

## What replaced what

- 116,000 (2016-09-24 to 2017-09-30, [clm_5581CFE3C004](/claim/clm_5581CFE3C004.md)) was replaced by [clm_7F97905E9377](/claim/clm_7F97905E9377.md)
- 132,000 (2018-09-29 to 2020-09-26, [clm_8A6721EB33EA](/claim/clm_8A6721EB33EA.md)) was replaced by [clm_446B5E61076F](/claim/clm_446B5E61076F.md)

## Questions this record answers

### What is Apple Inc.'s current employee count?

166,000, dated September 27, 2025, from a primary source (sec.gov). The record asserts this claim as of November 1, 2026 (status valid, confidence 0.95).

### When did Apple Inc.'s employee count last change?

The latest value on the record is 166,000, dated September 27, 2025; before it the record holds 132,000, dated September 29, 2018 and closed on September 26, 2020.

### What was Apple Inc.'s employee count before 166,000?

132,000, valid from September 29, 2018 to September 26, 2020 (status superseded), from a primary source (sec.gov).


## Get this data

- JSON: /v1/entities/apple/employees (this fact) · /v1/entities/apple?predicates=employees (with the entity's coverage; add as_of=YYYY-MM-DD for a date)
- MCP: timeline(entity: "apple", predicates: ["employees"]) for every dated value · fetch(id: "/record/apple/employees.md") for this page
- Entity twin: /record/apple.md · timeline: /timelines/apple.md

---

AsOf is a temporal fact ledger: a structured, dated, sourced record of what is true and what changed, built for AI retrieval.