United Parcel Service company profile
- CEO
- Carol Tomé
- Employees
- 460,000
- Headquarters
- 55 Glenlake Parkway, N.E., Atlanta, GA 30328, US
- Sector
- Industrials
- Industry
- Integrated Freight & Logistics
- IPO date
- 10 Nov 1999
- Stock exchange
- NYSE
- ISIN
- US9113121068
Website:ups.com
About the company
United Parcel Service, Inc., a package delivery and logistics provider, offers transportation and delivery services. It operates through two segments, U.S. Domestic Package and International Package. The U.S. Domestic Package segment offers time-definite delivery services for express letters, documents, packages and palletized freight through air and ground services. The International Package segment provides small package operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Canada and Latin America, and Asia. The company offers a range of guaranteed day- and time-definite international transportation services; day-definite services; cross-border ground package delivery; contract-only, e-commerce solutions for non-urgent, and cross-border shipments; and international service for urgent and palletized shipments. It also provides international air and ocean freight forwarding, contract logistics, customs brokerage and insurance, mail services, healthcare logistics, distribution, and post-sales services. United Parcel Service, Inc. was founded in 1907 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
Employees
United Parcel Service had about 460,000 employees at the end of fiscal year 2025 (31 December 2025), by its annual report. That is 6.1% fewer than a year before.
Employees at each fiscal year end, as the company reports them in its annual report (10-K); revenue and net income per employee are the fiscal year's over that count.
Who owns United Parcel Service
Institutions such as funds, banks and insurers held 65.7% of United Parcel Service's shares on 30 June 2026, 2,258 of them reporting holdings to the SEC; the rest is held by individual investors and other shareholders.
Shares free to trade
Closely held shares belong to insiders, founders and owners of more than 5%, and seldom change hands. The free float is the rest: the shares anyone can buy and sell.
How United Parcel Service pays its executives
The chief executive was paid 22.88M USD for fiscal 2025, 83% of it in shares and options.
| Name and position | Salary | Stock awards | Option awards | Cash incentive | Other pay | Total pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carol Tomé Chief Executive Officer | 1.51M USD | 17.55M USD | 1.36M USD | 2.26M USD | 195.21K USD | 22.88M USD |
| Kate Gutmann President International, Healthcare and Supply Chain Solutions | 926.30K USD | 5.44M USD | 471.89K USD | 814.00K USD | 697.80K USD | 8.35M USD |
| Nando Cesarone President U.S. and UPS Airline | 926.30K USD | 5.44M USD | 471.89K USD | 814.00K USD | 125.44K USD | 7.78M USD |
| Brian Dykes Chief Financial Officer | 806.57K USD | 4.81M USD | 416.89K USD | 719.12K USD | 266.65K USD | 7.02M USD |
| Bala Subramanian Chief Digital and Technology Officer | 814.27K USD | 4.73M USD | 410.14K USD | 707.46K USD | 90.13K USD | 6.75M USD |
FY2025 · From the company's proxy statements to the SEC: what each named executive was paid for the fiscal year, shares and options at their value when granted. The latest filing
Common questions about United Parcel Service
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