Largest Employer

[waccamatt]

In Columbia, the state of South Carolina is the largest employer with over 30,000 employees.

Here are some numbers for other employers in the greater Columbia area. Those figures quoting 14,000 employees at the University of Arizona and 31,000 at the University of Minnesota sound high. My brother is a professor at the U of A, I will verify that figure soon.

Largest Regional Employers

Company Name Product/Service County Employees

Palmetto Health Alliance Health Care (2 hospitals) Richland 7,700

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of S.C. Insurance Richland 7,200

Wal-Mart Retail Region 4,500

University of South Carolina State Region 4,500

Lexington Medical Center Health Care Lexington 3,700

Department of Mental Health State Region 3,179

SCANA & SCE&G Utility Richland 3,098

Department of Corrections State Region 2,819

Gold Kist Inc Manufacturing: Poultry-chicken products Sumter 2,338

Department of Health and Environmental Control State Region 2,228

Humana / TriCare Insurance Richland 2100*

Electrolux Manufacturing: Riding Lawn Tractors Orangeburg 1,999

Department of Transportation State Region 1,962

Providence Hospital (2 hospitals) Health Care Richland 1,650

Michelin Tire Corp. Manufacturing: Automotive Parts Lexington 1,525

Wachovia Bank Banking Region 1,475

United Parcel Service (air hub) Distribution Region 1,388

Louis Rich Manufacturing: Food & Kindred Newberry 1,387

Dorn VA Medical Center Health Care Richland 1,305

CSC Corporation Insurance Software Richland 1,300

Department of Social Services State Region 1,270

Babcock Center Inc Service Richland 1,250

BellSouth Utility Richland 1,200

Verizon Telecommunications -Service Forest Acres 1,200

Budget and Control Board State Region 1,164

Santee Print Works Manufacturing: Printing & finishing cotton fabric Sumter 1,100

Department of Juvenile Justice State Region 1,049

Westinghouse Electric Manufacturing: Nuclear fuel assemblies Richland 1,028

Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Insurance Richland 1,000

Bose Corporation Manufacturing: Radios Richland 960

Time Warner Cable Service Region 900

Bosch Braking Systems Manufacturing: Drum brake assemblies Sumter 810

INVISTA (Du Pont) Manufacturing: Textiles Kershaw 750

Bank of America Banking Richland 750*

International Paper Manufacturing: Cutsize copier paper Richland 726

Becton Dickinson Vacutainer Systems Manufacturing: Disposable blood collection devices Sumter 722

First Citizens Bank Banking Richland 700*

MB Kahn Construction Company Construction Region 700*

Target Corporation Retail Distribution Kershaw 700

Kershaw County Medical Center Health Care Kershaw 680

Governor's Office State Region 685

Department of Public Safety State Region 680

South Carolina State University State Region 658

Honeywell International Inc Manufacturing: Staple nylon Lexington 655

Federal Mogul Corp Manufacturing: Oil Seals Clarendon 650

UTi Integrated Logistics (Standard Corp.) Distribution: third party logisitcs Region 650

Voridian (Carolina Eastman Div.) Manufacturing: Plastic materials & resins Calhoun 650

Source: Company representatives and State Budget and Control Board; Companies with an * are pending update.

[PghUSA]

Pittsburgh's is the

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

and the University of Pittsburgh (though I forget in what order)

though major employers are:

US Steel

Mellon Financial

PNC Financial

Bayer Medical

FedExGround

Ariba

Seagate

Intel

The Federal and State Goverments

Carnegie Mellon University

Allegheny Healthcare

USAirways (still though really moving lower)

[AvianKeahi]

...Those figures quoting 14,000 employees at the University of Arizona and 31,000 at the University of Minnesota sound high. ...

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Yes they are. The University of Minnesota employed about 18,000 in 2002: U of MN Employment (Page 2 of the PDF has the statistics for employees.)

[TC']

Minneapolis Background Information

This is where i got my info that claims the u of m employes 31,000 people in the city of minneapolis. It is information from 2005 which is more current than what you found from 2002.

[Skyybutter]

Charlottes largest employers

Wachovia Corporation

17,000

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools

13,683

Bank of America

12,770

Carolinas HealthCare System

11,100

[sleepy]

In Memphis, FedEx employs about 30,000.

About half of those are part-time working at the sorting-hub--pays about $12/hr per shift with a guarantee of 6 hr/night with some benefits. Mostly college students and 2nd jobbers.

The rest are corporate, pilots, or work at FedEx's tech center, where they earn the real dough.

[kayman]

UAB is the largest employer in Birmingham metro area and the 3rd largest in Alabama - 20,000+

[cheeriokid61]

Where do you find this information?

[mcheiss]

Wal-Mart Stores in Bentonville, Arkansas employs around 15,000 to 20,000 employees as well as thousand of vendor employees in the area.

[habitat67]

I believe NY Presbeterian Hospital is NYC's largest employer -- about 33,000 -- I could be wrong -- anyone have a subscription to Crain's NY Business?

[cheeriokid61]

Nashville's largest is Vanderbilt University and Medical Center, with about 16,000 employees.

Franklin, it would be the Cool Springs Galleria, which employees 3,500 people. However, that is comprised of many employers, but listed as one. The largest single employer is Primus Financial, with 2,400 people.

[Rural King]

In my region of NWTN-

Union City, TN - Goodyear Tire - roughly at 2500 (down from a high of 3500), followed by Tyson Chicken at 1500-1600 (?), and Kohler (bathtubs/showers) at 540, and Lennox (Fireplace units) at 500.

Martin, TN - MTD (Lawnmowers, makes a lot of the brands on the market) at 900, IFCO Systems at 325, and Gordon Foods at 230 (facility set to close in 06).The University of Tennessee at Martin at ? -hundreds, likely significantly bigger than IFCO- has the largest economic impact on the city.

*Alot of this data is a mix between what TDECD data sheets from 2002 state as employment figures and major employers, and my best current knowledge of the regions employment standings, ie layoffs or expansions at these plants.

[cheeriokid61]

I'm surprised that UTM isn't the largest employer in Martin. I would expect that over 1,000 people work there.

[Rural King]

^ I don't know, I looked for numbers but could not find any and it was not listed of the 2002 TDECD sheets, so I can't tell where it falls in ranking. I would definately say its significantly bigger than IFCO, but is it more than 900 or so at MTD, well I can't really say. There are hundreds of full-time employees, but there are also alot of graduate assistants and student workers which I didn't figure into my estimate since they are also students, so as far as full-time employees go I'm just not sure how many there are. There are roughly 6000 students to give you an idea of how big the University is. So 1000 full-time non-student employees vs. 6000 students would be a 1 to 6 ratio, that seems rather high to me, but it may well be that high.

I will look into it further after Christmas.

[EbonyGardens]

In Tallahassee, it's the state and local government that are our biggest employers.

[fromdust]

not including the state and city employers, here is a partial list of the largest employers.

tinker air force base-26,000

dayton tire-7,800

general motors-3,400

dell computers ( as soon as the expansion is complete)

hertz worldwide reservation-3,100

sonic corporation-1,500

hobby lobby-2,000

faa areonatical center-5,600

well, we can take gm off the list since they are closing the facility here.

[9thWonder]

Miami-Dade County's largest emplyer is "Miami-Dade County Public Schools."

MDCPS employs nearly 50,000 workers in fulltime and part-time jobs.

MDCPS is Miami-Dade

[dpbaker]

Santa Clara, CA - Intel, 6500+ employees....

[JDC]

Wal-Mart Stores in Bentonville, Arkansas employs around 15,000 to 20,000 employees as well as thousand of vendor employees in the area.

It's so typical of Wal-Mart to headquarter a company in a small town in a low-rise building. I'll bet there's plenty of parking though.

In Durham, Duke University & Medical Center employs over 27,000. IBM and GlaxoSmithKline take 2nd and 3rd with 13,300 and 4,800, respectively.

[mcheiss]

It's so typical of Wal-Mart to headquarter a company in a small town in a low-rise building. I'll bet there's plenty of parking though.

Parking is actually a bit harder to find these days. They have several lots, but they really need to build a parking garage. In fact, the Home office really needs to be developed into either a High Rise or A big Mid Rise Office Park kind of deal.

[Miesian Corners]

Charlotte's Largest Employees 2005

*Headquartered in Mecklenburg County

15,000-19,999

Wachovia Corporation* 18,967

10,000-14,999

Carolinas HealthCare System* 15,257

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools* 15,134

Bank of America* 13,000

5,000-9,999

State of North Carolina 6,348

City of Charlotte* 5,838

US Airways 5,749

Duke Energy Corporation* 5,400

Mecklenburg County* 5,373

Presbyterian Healthcare/Novant Health* 5,166

3,000-4,999

Excel Staffing Services of Charlotte, Inc. 4,500

Lowe's 4,346

Ruddick/Harris Teeter, Inc.* 3,867

UNC at Charlotte* 3,764

Bi-Lo 3,210

2,000-2,999

YMCA of Greater Charlotte* 2,838

BellSouth Telecommunications* 2,760

Belk Inc.* 2,618

Compass Group USA* 2,500

Family Dollar Stores* 2,500

Winn-Dixie Charlotte 2,500

Wal-Mart Stores/Sam's 2,256

Adecco 2,000

TIAA-CREF 2,000

[dave8721]

Government is by far the biggest employer in the Miami area (over 150,000 empleyees).

The largest Private employer is Baptist Health with over 11,000 local employees. The second largest is the University of Miami with almost 10,000 local employees. American Airlines employees over 9,000 more. The rest of the top employers are:

Precision Response Corp: 4196

BellSouth: 4800

MasTech: 1800

Publix: 4000

Royal Carribbean: 2500

Florida Power & Light: 3665

Mount Sinai Medical Center: 3000

UPS: 5000

Carnival CruiseLine: 3000

Macy's: 3368

Miami Herald: 2000

Wachovia: 2500

Burger King Corp: 1907

Cordis: 2200

For Comparison sake the Miami-Dade County Government employes 87,000 people.

[EbonyGardens]

^I had no idea government was also a big employer in Miami. Looks like Tallahassee isn't the only city where government makes up a big portion of the jobs.

[DruidCity]

10 largest employers in metro Tuscaloosa:

The University of Alabama (650-acre campus a few blocks east of downtown) - ~ 4,100 employees

Mercedes (20 miles from downtown Tuscaloosa) - 4,000 employees

DCH hospital (3,100 at the main hospital is just east of the university, and 900 at their hospital in our main

suburb, Northport, 2-3 miles north of downtown Tuscaloosa) - ~ 4,000 employees

Tuscaloosa County public school system (downtown HQ) - 1,800+ employees

Jim Walter Resources (coal mining operations in the eastern end of Tuscaloosa County, 20-30 miles east of the city): 1,400 employees

Uniroyal Goodrich tire factory (1-2 miles west of downtown) - 1,300 employees

City of Tuscaloosa public school system (downtown HQ) - ~ 1,250 employees

City of Tuscaloosa government (downtown HQ) - ~1,200 employees

Phifer Wire Products (company HQ, 2 miles south of downtown) - ~ 1,100 employees

Johnson Controls (15 miles east of Tuscaloosa) - ~ 900 employees

[willacoochee]

Willacoochee, Georgia

In no particular order:

All are estimates from 2000 and most of the employers have expanded.......

There are approximately 900+ employeed in Willacoochee (Including Willacoochee and Surronding Areas).

Major Industries:

Fleetwood Homes: 140+

Georgia Sweetwater Catfish: 70+

Langboard, Inc: 135+

TLC Moldings, Inc: 50+

L&M Bag and Supply: 25+

Progro, Inc: 15+

Specialized Structures, Inc: 95+

Willacoochee Industrial Fabrics: 45+

Whittley Cruisers: 60+

PAK Unlimited: ?