7 Ways to Land a Work from Home Job with Disney

If getting a Disney work from home job has always been your idea of the “Happiest Place on Earth”, you’re not alone.

Who wouldn’t want to work for Disney?

They’re so inclusive, they’ve got jobs for veterans (Heroes Work Here) and people from all over the world. Work on land at any of its 12 Disney parks, or go onboard one of the ships on Disney’s cruise line.

Unfortunately, if you can’t join a cruise ship, or you’re nowhere near a Disney theme park, your next best bet is to find a Disney remote job.

There are a bunch of ways you can do this and I’ve rounded up all possible options and a few more ideas as well.

How to Work from Home for Disney

There are a few ways you can do this: either find a work-from-home job opening on Disney’s job board and apply directly (I’ll show you how below), learn how to make money doing Disney-related side gigs from home, or leverage the Disney brand to build your own profitable business around their success.

1. Find a Disney Work From Home Job on Their Website

Disney work-from-home jobs can be found on its dedicated Disney Careers job board.

This massive job board lists a wide range of jobs in categories such as Business Support, Consumer Goods, Operations Support, Marketing and Sales, and many more.

As soon as you’re on the website, you can immediately access the thousands of job listings without having to log in.

You can type your specific area of interest in the field to see what they have available, or just leave it blank to see all open positions.

For the sake of seeing everything they have available, I left the search box it blank. On the next page, scroll down to the last option on the right titled ‘Remote’ and click the ‘Yes’ option.

As you can see, at the time I took this screenshot there are 12 available remote jobs to browse through.

Here are some examples I saw:

• Staff Software Development Engineer (for Disney Star)
• Remote Video Operator (for Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution)
• FiveThirtyEight Research & Copy-Editing Intern, Spring 2024 (for ABC News)
• Recurring Remote Director (for ESPN)
• Analytics and Insights, Engineer (for the Walt Disney Company, corporate office)

2. Find a Disney Work From Home Job on Third-Party Job Sites

Your life-saver would be FlexJobs, which always has a list of available Disney jobs in and outside the US.

What’s great about listings on FlexJobs is that it indicates if the position is 100% work from home, has the potential to become a work-from-home job, or a mix of both (office-based and remote).

Because Disney has an extensive range of jobs, expect that every position will have a different set of requirements and qualifications.

Jobs are posted there multiple times per month. If there are no current listings, be sure to bookmark that page and check back often.

Disney Employee Benefits

Once you do get a home-based Disney job, you’d receive Disney employee benefits similar to employees working in one of their physical locations.

Company benefits may include:

• Retirement and 401k (Disney reportedly matches 3% of employee’s contribution)
• Health insurance, including dental and vision coverage
• Up to 4 weeks of vacation and sick leave (depending on position and tenure)
• Tuition assistance for those who want to pursue their studies
• Free entrance to theme parks, including family and friends
• Up to 30% discount on Disney hotels, restaurants, merchandise, and other Disney products and services

The best thing about Disney jobs is that the company offers “flex-time,” which means even if you’ve started a job that’s fully location-based, you can discuss your options of working from home, adjust the start/end times of your shift, and so on.

If direct employment isn’t in the stars for you, you can find other money-making opportunities and online jobs that are related to Disney.

NOTE: For the following work-from-home options, you will NOT be considered a Disney employee. But, I still recommend you to check them out since the income potential is significant…and you could perform the jobs right at the comfort of your homes too!

3. Become a Disney Vacation Planner

If you have awesome communication skills, you can earn commissions for helping people plan their Disney vacations. It’s not a true Disney work-from-home job as you won’t be working for the Mouse directly.

You don’t need to have a travel agent license, but you do have to be intimately familiar with Disney Destinations.

Some may even require that you’ve visited a Disney theme park at least 5 times.

Other companies may ask you to go through an online training program before starting the job. This training program enables aspiring travel planners to learn about all things Disney: the Disneyland Resort, Walt Disney World Resort, Disney Cruise Line, Adventures by Disney, and Aulani, a Disney Resort & Spa.

How does it work?

Apply as a freelance Disney travel planner under any one of the registered Disney Travel Agencies, also known as EarMarked Travel Agencies. Some of these companies may require an upfront joining fee or monthly membership fee, while others do not.

If you decide to become a vacation planner, you’ll be booking Disney vacations under that company’s International Air Transport Association (IATA) number, then you’ll receive a commission for that booking, which varies depending on the travel agency.

Note that in most cases, you’ll only receive your share of the sale after the customer’s Disney trip, so this can mean weeks or months after you initially “sold” a travel package.

Here are some travel agencies that you can join:

• Mouse Fan Travel – You need to be have joined a Disney cruised at least once in the past 10 years. They also only accept US citizens at this time.
• Off to Neverland – As a “Magic Maker” for Off to Neverland, you work flexible hours and earn travel benefits with generous commissions.
• Marvelous Mouse Travels – Marvelous Mouse Travels doesn’t just want any casual travel agent. They’re looking for those who can commit to the role full-time. Initial screening is long, but required to move forward.
• The Vacationeer – The Vacationeer is looking for US-based travel agents who are passionate about Disney and Disney Destinations. Those who can commit to 40-hour workweeks and have social media marketing experience are required.
• Cupcake Castles Travel – If you have experience in sales with extensive knowledge of Disney resorts and at least 3 trips to Disney in the last 5 years, apply to join the Cupcake Castles Travel’s award-winning Travel Entrepreneur team.
• Mouse Counselors – Mouse Counselors offers a generous 75/25 commission split to their new agents – it’s higher than industry standards.
• Travel with the Magic – Travel with Magic is open for US-based Travel Concierge Advisors with a passion for everything Disney parks. This platform particularly looks for travel at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida within the last two years.
• Academy Travel – Academy Travel is a Disney-only, Diamond EarMarked travel agency. It’s got some of the best programs for travel planners looking to hone their sales skills.
• Mouseketrips – Have you been to both Disney World and Disneyland Resort in the past? Have you joined a Disney Cruise in the last 5 years? If you have and you want to earn money for your love of Disney, apply to become an Independent Travel Expert with Mouseketrips.
• The Enchanted Traveler – As a Disney focused travel agent with the Enchanted Traveler, you have the flexibility to work when you want, where you want, and with the clients that you want – all while having guidance from marketing and sales experts from your team.
• Middle of the Magic Travel – Middle of the Magic Travel accepts both part-time and full-time Disney travel planners who are frequent Disney vacationers and would love to use their Disney passion to earn money from home.
• Mickey World Travel – There is always room for new travel planners at Mickey World Travel. You do need to be fully involved with everything Disney – from visiting Disney parks to joining their cruises, and actively talking about Disney on social media groups.
• Magical Travel – Magical Travel has been around since 2001. Founded by a fellow Disney lover, this Disney-only travel agency is looking for a marketer and travel planner to join their team and sell Disney vacations.

I know looking at this list may have you thinking if a Disney work-from-home job as a travel planner is even worth pursuing with all of that competition and with the decline in visitors due to the pandemic.

Well, before 2020, Disney was profiting close to $13 million dollars per day running its theme parks alone. By 2021, profits have picked up again. There is still plenty of profit to go around.

You’ll find a lot of travel agencies offering Disney work from home jobs to independent contractors.

There are plenty online. My advice is to always check the agency’s IATA (International Air Transport Association) and/or CLIA (Cruise Lines International Association) accreditation.

Almost all of these agencies allow you to work from home and work flexible hours.

Kari Bonnes, the owner of Marvelous Mouse Travels, says she has part-time Disney travel agents who earn up to $40k a year. Glassdoor, on the other hand, estimates that Disney travel planners earn anywhere from $20,000 to $65,000 a year.

Imagine the possibilities if you do this full time, especially if you’re a rockstar in sales.

What’s awesome about being part of a travel agency is that they also have prizes for high-earners, continuous training, chances of winning an IATA card, and other benefits.

4. Sell Disney Stuff as a shopDisney.com Affiliate

Selling Disney products with the likeness of Disney characters without proper permission can get you in trouble with the law.

Disney takes copyright and trademark infringement very seriously and has been known to aggressively go after retailers trying to profit off Disney-themed items without permission.

If you already have an established online store with steady revenues and you plan on selling Disney products, then the time and cost of applying for a Disney license make sense.

However, if you’re planning to sell Disney items just for side cash or as a work-from-home gig, there’s a better way to do it: join the official shopDisney.com Affiliate Program.

shopDisney.com gives 2% commissions on products sold with a 10-day referral cookie. This means when a person clicks on the link you shared and buys something from shopDisney.com immediately or anytime in the next 10 days, you’ll get a commission.

You may also find these other Disney affiliate programs interesting: Disney Movie Club, Disney Blast, and Disney+ Partner Program.

5. Write about Disney

It’s not exactly a work-from-home job, but writing articles and blog posts about anything Disney-related and submitting these articles as a guest blogger or guest writer can earn you some side cash.

Here are some guest blogging opportunities worth looking at:

• Cambrick Yard, LLC
• DIS
• Theme Park Tourist
• Undercover Tourist
• Disneyways
• Disney Food Blog
• Chip and Co
• Unlocking The Magic

6. Blog about Disney

You can start a Disney blog, write about Disney on a full-time basis, and earn a steady income. Like most passive-income generating opportunities, the revenue you get with a blog directly correlates to the amount of work you invest in it.

Think about this Disney-related news blog and decide if you can find yourself writing about Disney day in, day out.

The set-up and monthly maintenance of blogs are relatively cheap. What makes a blog valuable is the content you share with the world.

If you’ve got the writing chops and your brain is full of Disney trivia and information, you can even write an e-book, pamphlet, travel guide, or other printables and sell it online.

You can use this blog as:

• a way to sell Disney products (see becoming an affiliate above)
• a place to sell information products, such as ebooks, brochures, travel guides, and the like featuring information on Disney
• an informational blog perfect for AdSense revenues
• a space to offer your services as a Disney travel agent (see becoming a Disney Vacation Planner above)
• a way to build a big network (and become an influencer)

There are other ways to turn your Disney blog into a goldmine.

7. Vlog about Disney

Maybe writing or blogging doesn’t appeal to you.

Or maybe you already have a blog and want to take it to new, fresh audiences.

Well, how about vlogging?

Start a channel on YouTube or on Twitch, talk about everything and anything Disney, and monetize that content.

Whatever your main topic is—whether it’s about the Disney parks, Disney movies, their streaming service Disney+, or even Disney-owned ESPN—someone will be interested.

The good thing is that you can do all this at home.

Learn more about making money from YouTube or from Twitch.

Are there Still Work from Home Jobs with Disney in 2023?

If you’re content to have a Disney work-from-home job, their careers board is an excellent database.

However, I highly recommend creating your own online-based company and providing your services as a Disney travel planner. This way, you get to dictate your working hours, your business plan, and you get to keep more of your commissions.

Before you start, make sure you’re licensed to offer Disney travel packages.

Whichever route you plan to take, you’ll have a greater chance of success when you genuinely have a love for everything Disney.

If you’re not sure working for Disney is for you, there are plenty more work from home opportunities you can look into.