Tesla Increased its Workforce by a Whopping 40% in 2021

Tesla has also continually added more employees to its workforce than other automakers, as revealed in its latest filing with the SEC.

Tesla hired 28,533 new full-time employees in 2021, marking a whopping 40.3 percent increase in the automaker’s workforce, according to MarketWatch.

The figure was revealed in a 10-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday, just weeks after the company reported a total of 99,290 employees on December 31, 2021.

At the end of 2020, Tesla had 70,757 employees and has reported a “good” relationship with its employees in the past, citing that it has had zero work stoppages from labor disputes.

Automakers General Motors (GM) and Ford have more employees, though they’ve seen significantly less change to their overall labor forces than Tesla.

GM said on December 31, that it has a total of 74,000 employees, made up of 157,000 salaried and 83,000 hourly employees, with the company seeing a 1.3 percent increase in 2021 from its 2020 figures.

Ford said on Friday that it has around 183,000 employees, representing a 1.6 percent decrease in employees from this time last year.

In an interview last year, New York Times anchor Andrew Sorkin pointed out that Tesla’s non-union employees make more than GM’s employees to GM CEO Mary Barra.