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This is a list of United States–based companies having the most employees globally. Note that for some companies listed, the majority of total employees live and work in other countries.
Employees are mixed and composed of various Economic sectors such as the Business sector, Private sector, Public sector, and the Voluntary sector. Additional classifications include the Agricultural (or primary) sector, Industrial (or secondary) sector, Service (or tertiary) sector, Information (or quaternary) sector, and Human (or quinary) sector.
United States-based largest private employers [1] [2] | |||
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Rank | Employer | Global number of employees | |
1 | Walmart, Inc. | 2,300,000 | |
2 | Amazon.com, Inc. | 1,608,000 [3] | |
3 | Allied Universal | 800,000 [4] | |
4 | Accenture | 738,000 | |
5 | FedEx Corporation | 547,000 [5] | |
6 | Home Depot | 490,600 | |
7 | Kroger | 465,000 | |
8 | UnitedHealth Group | 400,000 | |
9 | Berkshire Hathaway | 372,000 | |
10 | IBM | 383,800 | |
11 | United Parcel Service | 381,000 | |
12 | Target Corporation | 368,000 | |
13 | DHL | 350,000 | |
14 | Starbucks | 346,000 | |
15 | Ernst & Young | 336,000 | |
16 | Deloitte | 310,000 | |
17 | Cognizant Technology Solutions | 292,500 | |
18 | CVS Health | 290,000 | |
19 | Walgreens Boots Alliance | 287,000 | |
20 | TJX | 286,000 | |
21 | PricewaterhouseCoopers | 276,000 | |
22 | Albertsons | 267,000 | |
23 | PepsiCo | 267,000 | |
24 | Bank of America | 257,000 | |
25 | J.P. Morgan Chase | 256,981 | |
26 | AT&T | 247,800 | |
27 | HCA Healthcare | 245,000 | |
28 | Raytheon Technologies | 243,200 | |
29 | Synnex | 240,900 |
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According to research from the Federal Reserve Economic Data (more specifically, provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics), health care has now surpassed both manufacturing and retail as the engine for employment growth in the coming decades. There were approximately 16 million people employed in the health care sector in 2017. [6]
Employment by major industry sector [7] [8] | ||||||||
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Industry sector | Employee count (as of Jan. 2013) | |||||||
Total [A] | 145,000,000 | |||||||
Total nonfarm | 133,074,000 | |||||||
Total private | 111,342,000 | |||||||
Goods- producing | 18,071,000 | |||||||
Mining and logging | 838,000 | |||||||
Logging | 48,900 | |||||||
Mining | 800,500 | |||||||
Oil and gas extraction | 192,300 | |||||||
Mining, except oil and gas | 204,900 | |||||||
Coal mining | 78,200 | |||||||
Support activities for mining | 392,000 | |||||||
Construction worker | 5,353,000 | |||||||
Construction of buildings | 1,208,700 | |||||||
Residential building | 565,100 | |||||||
Nonresidential building | 192,300 | |||||||
Heavy and civil engineering construction | 773,800 | |||||||
Specialty trade contractors | 3,370,200 | |||||||
Residential specialty trade contractors | 1,409,800 | |||||||
Nonresidential specialty trade contractors | 1,960,400 | |||||||
Manufacturing | 11,880,000 | |||||||
Durable goods | 7,468,000 | |||||||
Wood products | 340,700 | |||||||
Nonmetallic mineral products | 354,600 | |||||||
Primary metals | 397,900 | |||||||
Fabricated metal products | 1,412,300 | |||||||
Machinery | 1,100,900 | |||||||
Computer and electronic products | 1,071,300 | |||||||
Computer and peripheral equipment | 156,000 | |||||||
Communications equipment | 104,500 | |||||||
Semiconductors and electronic components | 377,500 | |||||||
Electronic instruments | 394,000 | |||||||
Electrical equipment and appliances | 373,800 | |||||||
Transportation equipment | 1,488,900 | |||||||
Motor vehicles and parts | 797,600 | |||||||
Furniture and related products | 349,900 | |||||||
Miscellaneous durable goods manufacturing | 577,900 | |||||||
Non-durable goods | 4,412,000 | |||||||
Food manufacturing | 1,442,000 | |||||||
Textile mills | 116,300 | |||||||
Textile product mills | 115,500 | |||||||
Apparel | 145,300 | |||||||
Paper and paper products | 378,800 | |||||||
Printing and related support activities | 452,700 | |||||||
Petroleum and coal products | 109,700 | |||||||
Chemicals | 787,100 | |||||||
Plastics and rubber products | 644,800 | |||||||
Miscellaneous nondurable goods manufacturing | 219,900 | |||||||
Private service-providing | 93,271,000 | |||||||
Trade, transportation, and utilities | 25,505,000 | |||||||
Wholesale trade | 5,663,000 | |||||||
Durable goods | 2,841,300 | |||||||
Nondurable goods | 1,955,800 | |||||||
Electronic markets and agents and brokers | 865,900 | |||||||
Retail trade | 14,852,100 | |||||||
Motor vehicle and parts dealers | 1,737,200 | |||||||
Automobile dealers | 1,107,100 | |||||||
Furniture and home furnishings stores | 447,300 | |||||||
Electronics and appliance stores | 515,700 | |||||||
Building material and garden supply stores | 1,126,600 | |||||||
Food and beverage stores | 2,883,700 | |||||||
Health and personal care | 1,007,900 | |||||||
Gasoline stations | 838,600 | |||||||
Clothing and clothing accessories stores | 1,420,800 | |||||||
Sporting goods, hobby, book, and music stores | 596,100 | |||||||
General merchandise stores | 3,041,600 | |||||||
Department stores | 1,377,400 | |||||||
Miscellaneous store retailers | 778,400 | |||||||
Nonstore retailers | 458,200 | |||||||
Transportation and warehousing | 4,440,300 | |||||||
Air transportation | 446,000 | |||||||
Rail transportation | 230,200 | |||||||
Water transportation | 62,600 | |||||||
Truck transportation | 1,343,700 | |||||||
Transit and ground passenger transportation | 460,000 | |||||||
Pipeline transportation | 43,300 | |||||||
Scenic and sightseeing transportation | 20,500 | |||||||
Support activities for transportation | 591,000 | |||||||
Couriers and messengers | 546,900 | |||||||
Warehousing and storage | 696,100 | |||||||
Utilities | 549,700 | |||||||
Information | 2,635,000 | |||||||
Publishing industries, except Internet | 732,100 | |||||||
Motion picture and sound recording industries | 315,700 | |||||||
Broadcasting, except Internet | 284,400 | |||||||
Telecommunications | 853,500 | |||||||
Data processing, hosting and related services | 263,000 | |||||||
Other information services | 186,600 | |||||||
Financial activities | 7,783,000 | |||||||
Finance and insurance | 5,850,200 | |||||||
Monetary authorities- central bank | 17,500 | |||||||
Credit intermediation and related activities | 2,614,000 | |||||||
Depository credit intermediation | 1,742,100 | |||||||
Commercial banking | 1,322,400 | |||||||
Securities, commodity contracts, investments, and funds and trusts | 854,500 | |||||||
Insurance carriers and related activities | 2,364,200 | |||||||
Real estate and rental and leasing | 1,932,400 | |||||||
Real estate | 1,411,800 | |||||||
Rental and leasing services | 497,100 | |||||||
Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets | 23,500 | |||||||
Professional and business services | 17,845,000 | |||||||
Professional and technical services | 8,012,800 | |||||||
Legal services | 1,122,800 | |||||||
Accounting and bookkeeping services | 989,300 | |||||||
Architectural and engineering services | 1,314,000 | |||||||
Computer systems design and related services | 1,659,200 | |||||||
Management and technical consulting services | 1,131,400 | |||||||
Management of companies and enterprises | 2,059,800 | |||||||
Administrative and waste services | 7,773,000 | |||||||
Administrative and support services | 7,402,700 | |||||||
Employment services | 3,031,800 | |||||||
Temporary help services | 2,409,300 | |||||||
Business support services | 7,783,000 | |||||||
Services to buildings and dwellings | 1,681,000 | |||||||
Waste management and remediation services | 369,300 | |||||||
Education and health services | 20,791,000 | |||||||
Educational services | 3,232,900 | |||||||
Health care and social assistance | 17,558,500 | |||||||
Health care | 14,365,700 | |||||||
Ambulatory health care services | 6,389,000 | |||||||
Offices of physicians | 2,414,400 | |||||||
Outpatient care centers | 663,700 | |||||||
Home health care services | 1,203,800 | |||||||
Hospitals | 4,780,700 | |||||||
Nursing and residential care facilities | 3,196,000 | |||||||
Nursing care facilities | 1,651,300 | |||||||
Social assistance | 3,192,800 | |||||||
Child day care services | 855,000 | |||||||
Leisure and hospitality | 13,324,000 | |||||||
Arts, entertainment, and recreation | 1,768,600 | |||||||
Performing arts and spectator sports | 364,300 | |||||||
Museums, historical sites, and similar institutions | 126,400 | |||||||
Amusements, gambling, and recreation | 1,277,900 | |||||||
Accommodation and food services | 11,555,300 | |||||||
Accommodation | 1,745,800 | |||||||
Food services and drinking places | 9,809,500 | |||||||
Other services | 5,388,000 | |||||||
Repair and maintenance | 1,194,300 | |||||||
Personal and laundry services | 1,315,200 | |||||||
Membership associations and organizations | 2,878,400 | |||||||
Government | 21,732,000 | |||||||
Federal government | 2,786,000 | |||||||
Federal government, except U.S. Postal Service | 2,185,200 | |||||||
U.S. Postal Service | 600,600 | |||||||
State government | 4,928,000 | |||||||
State government education | 2,273,900 | |||||||
State government, excluding education | 2,654,000 | |||||||
Local government | 14,018,000 | |||||||
Local government education | 7,880,000 | |||||||
Local government, excluding education | 6,138,100 |