List of largest United States–based employers globally

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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.

Employment by company[edit]

United States-based largest private employers[1][2]
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

Employment by major industry sector[edit]

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]
Industry sector Employee count (as of April 2024)[a]
Total 169,583,000[b][8]
Total nonfarm 158,286,000
Total private 135,015,000
Goods-producing 21,821,000
Mining and logging 641,000
Logging 42,200
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction 593,300
Oil and gas extraction 118,500
Mining, except oil and gas 189,700
Coal mining 44,100
Metal ore mining 42,900
Nonmetallic mineral mining and quarrying 102,700
Support activities for mining 290,100
Construction worker 8,219,000
Construction of buildings 1,867,300
Residential building 950,000
Nonresidential building 917,300
Heavy and civil engineering construction 1,146,300
Specialty trade contractors 5,205,100
Residential specialty trade contractors 2,407,400
Nonresidential specialty trade contractors 2,797,700
Manufacturing 12,961,000
Durable goods 8,144,000
Wood products 415,700
Nonmetallic mineral products 422,000
Primary metals 370,700
Fabricated metal products 1,469,600
Machinery 1,139,400
Computer and electronic products 1,102,300
Computer and peripheral equipment 161,000
Communications equipment 85,400
Semiconductors and electronic components 392,100
Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments 432,900
Magnetic and optical media and audio and visual equipment 31,000
Electrical equipment, appliances, and components 411,100
Transportation equipment [c] 1,841,000
Motor vehicles and parts [d] 1,063,900
Furniture and related products 345,900
Miscellaneous durable goods manufacturing 626,500
Non-durable goods 4,817,000
Food manufacturing 1,735,500
Textile mills 88,700
Textile product mills 95,400
Apparel 83,400
Paper and paper products 350,300
Printing and related support activities 366,700
Petroleum and coal products 109,200
Chemicals 898,200
Plastics and rubber products 728,100
Beverage, tobacco, and leather and allied products 361,900
Private service-providing 113,194,000
Trade, transportation, and utilities 29,011,000
Wholesale trade 6,169,700
Durable goods 3,425,300
Nondurable goods 2,230,800
Agents and brokers 513,600
Retail trade 15,677,900
Motor vehicle and parts dealers 2,072,700
Automobile dealers 1,298,600
Other motor vehicle dealers 170,900
Automotive parts, accessories, and tire retailers 603,200
Building material and garden supply stores 1,375,600
Food and beverage stores 3,264,400
Furniture, home furnishings, electronics, and appliance stores 821,700
Furniture and home furnishing stores 425,500
Electronics and appliance stores 396,200
General merchandise stores 3,041,600
Department stores 1,377,400
Warehouse clubs, supercenters, and other general merchandise 2,306,500
Health and personal care 1,099,600
Gasoline stations 1,080,600
Clothing, clothing accessories, shoe, and jewelry stores 1,137,800
Sporting goods, hobby, music, book, and miscellaneous stores 1,544,300
Transportation and warehousing 6,575,800
Air transportation 573,900
Rail transportation 153,400
Water transportation 74,900
Truck transportation 1,557,800
Transit and ground passenger transportation 435,100
Pipeline transportation 53,600
Scenic and sightseeing transportation 31,900
Support activities for transportation 839,700
Couriers and messengers 1,079,900
Warehousing and storage 1,775,600
Utilities 587,400
Information 3,013,000
Motion picture and sound recording industries 434,400
Publishing industries 932,400
Broadcasting and content providers 341,100
Telecommunications 630,000
Computing infrastructure, data processing, hosting and related services 498,800
Web search portals, libraries, archives, and other information services 176,400
Financial activities 9,233,000
Finance and insurance 6,732,500
Monetary authorities-central bank 22,600
Credit intermediation and related activities 2,587,700
Depository credit intermediation 1,777,500
Commercial banking 1,366,700
Nondepository credit intermediation 525,700
Activities related to credit intermediation 284,500
Securities, commodity contracts, investments, and funds and trusts 1,112,600
Insurance carriers and related activities 3,009,600
Real estate and rental and leasing 2,500,900
Real estate 1,878,800
Rental and leasing services 598,600
Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets (excluding copyrighted works) 23,500
Professional and business services 22,942,000
Professional, scientific, and technical services 10,995,500
Legal services 1,190,300
Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping, and payroll services 1,164,000
Architectural, engineering, and related services 1,688,800
Specialized design services 154,600
Computer systems design and related services 2,544,300
Management, scientific, and technical consulting services 1,896,400
Scientific research and development services 957,100
Advertising, public relations, and related services 522,900
Other professional, scientific, and technical services 877,100
Management of companies and enterprises 2,555,700
Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services 9,390,300
Administrative and support services 8,872,400
Office administrative services 631,400
Facilities support services 176,700
Employment services[e] 3,516,500
Temporary help services 2,736,700
Business support services 709,800
Travel arrangement and reservation services 194,400
Investigation and security measures 1,015,200
Services to buildings and dwellings 2,284,000
Other support services 344,400
Waste management and remediation services 517,900
Private education and health services 26,194,000
Private educational services 3,869,300
Health care and social assistance 22,324,300
Health care [f] 17,549,500
Ambulatory health care services 8,754,700
Offices of physicians 3,012,600
Offices of dentists 1,036,300
Offices of other health practioners 1,203,600
Outpatient care centers 1,081,900
Medical and diagnostic laboratories 322,500
Home health care services 1,741,200
Other ambulatory health care services 356,700
Hospitals 5,527,400
Nursing and residential care facilities 3,267,400
Nursing care facilities 1,466,600
Residential intellectual and developmental disability, mental health, and substance abuse facilities 666,900
Continuing care retirement communities and assisted living for the elderly 970,800
Other residential facilities 163,200
Social Assistance 4,774,800
Individual and family services 3,189,600
Community food and housing, and emergency and other relief services 227,800
Vocational rehabilitation services 289,900
Child care services 1,067,400
Leisure and hospitality 16,897,000
Arts, entertainment, and recreation 2,641,400
Performing arts, spectator sports, and related industries 621,400
Museums, historical sites, and similar institutions 179,400
Amusements, gambling, and recreation 1,840,600
Accommodation and food services 14,255,200
Accommodation 1,923,900
Food services and drinking places 12,331,300
Other services 5,904,000
Repair and maintenance 1,482,200
Personal and laundry services 1,553,800
Religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations 2,867,800
Government 23,271,000
Federal government 2,993,000
Federal government, except U.S. Postal Service 2,386,700
U.S. Postal Service 606,200
State government 5,451,000
State government education 2,669,100
State government, excluding education 2,781,500
Local government 14,827,000
Local government education 8,078,400
Local government, excluding education 6,748,200
  1. ^ Seasonally Adjusted
  2. ^ Total includes all nonfarm industries, plus the 2022 statistics on all workers who are in agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting, as well as those who are self-employed.
  3. ^ Includes other industries, not shown separately.
  4. ^ Includes motor vehicle manufacturing, motor vehicle body and trailer manufacturing, and motor vehicle parts manufacturing.
  5. ^ Includes other industries, not shown separately.
  6. ^ Includes ambulatory health care services, hospitals, and nursing and residential care facilities.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Fortune 500 Companies 2019: Who Made the List". Fortune. Archived from the original on August 6, 2020. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
  2. ^ "Forbes list of largest US Private Companies". Archived from the original on September 26, 2018. Retrieved August 10, 2020.
  3. ^ "Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) Company Profile & Facts - Yahoo Finance". Finance.yahoo.com. Archived from the original on August 15, 2022. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
  4. ^ "Allied Universal Acquires G4S Press Release". Archived from the original on April 6, 2021. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
  5. ^ "Company structure & facts". Archived from the original on August 18, 2021. Retrieved March 26, 2021.
  6. ^ Thompson, Derek (January 9, 2018). "Health Care Just Became the U.S.'s Largest Employer". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on April 27, 2019. Retrieved January 10, 2018.
  7. ^ "Table B-1. Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail - 2024 M04 Results". Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved May 7, 2024.
  8. ^ "Employment by major industry sector : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics". Bureau of Labor Statistics. Retrieved May 7, 2024.
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