Columbia Banking System (COLB) Operating Expenses (2010 - 2026)

Columbia Banking System has disclosed Operating Expenses across 17 years of filings, most recently posting $394.0 million for Q1 2026.

• Operating Expenses for Q1 2026 came in at $394.0 million, up 15.88% year-over-year; the trailing twelve-month figure through Mar 2026 was $1.5 billion (up 27.74% YoY), and the FY2025 annual result was $1.4 billion, up 28.89% from the prior year.
• Operating Expenses came in at $394.0 million for Q1 2026 at Columbia Banking System, down from $412.0 million in the prior quarter.
• In the past five years, Operating Expenses ranged from a high of $412.0 million in Q4 2025 to a low of $178.0 million in Q3 2022.
• The 5-year median for Operating Expenses is $287.5 million (2024), against an average of $292.3 million.
• Peak annual rise in Operating Expenses reached 118.32% in 2022, while the deepest fall reached 61.22% in 2022.
• Columbia Banking System's Operating Expenses stood at $195.0 million in 2022, then jumped by 73.08% to $337.5 million in 2023, then fell by 21.18% to $266.0 million in 2024, then soared by 54.89% to $412.0 million in 2025, then dropped by 4.37% to $394.0 million in 2026.
• The last three Operating Expenses figures came in at $394.0 million (Q1 2026), $412.0 million (Q4 2025), and $393.0 million (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.