As of 2024, WWE employs over 800 full-time employees as part of its business operations, spread across its three segments: Media, Live Events, and Consumer Products. In addition, they contract with various other vendors and service providers. As part of its Live Events segment, WWE signs performers known as professional wrestlers; these performers are described by the company as "
independent contractors",
Brands Since the reintroduction of the
WWE brand extension in 2016, performers are assigned to one of two primary "main roster" brands:
Raw and
SmackDown. A third brand,
NXT, had originally been designated as a
developmental brand for the main roster. In 2019, it was elevated to the third main roster brand. In 2021, the brand's weekly television show was rebooted as "NXT 2.0", and was reinstated to its original status as the developmental division for the main roster (Raw and SmackDown), although it has since dropped the "2.0" name. In 2025, WWE introduced a fourth brand, called
Evolve, which features wrestlers who are just beginning their training at the
WWE Performance Center under the
WWE NIL program, as well as wrestlers in
independent promotions that are part of the
WWE ID program, with the goal of advancing to NXT. Main roster performers primarily appear on
Monday Night Raw and
Friday Night SmackDown. Advanced developmental wrestlers appear on
NXT, while beginning developmental wrestlers appear on
Evolve. Supplementary shows include
Main Event, which features Raw and SmackDown wrestlers (with occasional appearances from NXT wrestlers), and
LFG, which features Evolve wrestlers. Performers may also appear on other
WWE weekly television programming, as well as on its
Premium Live Events and untelevised
house shows. A majority of personnel in its developmental system train at the
WWE Performance Center in
Orlando, Florida.
Championships For the most part, the brands have their own distinct
championships, although some select titles are open to all the brands, such as the
WWE Speed Championship for male wrestlers, as well as the
WWE Women's Speed Championship and
WWE Women's Tag Team Championship for female wrestlers. WWE wrestlers holding championships from Mexican sister promotion
Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA), U.S. partner promotion
Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), and Japanese partner promotion
Pro Wrestling Noah (NOAH) are also recognized by WWE. == Main roster ==