The Top 100 Employers
Companies ranked by number of employees worldwide. The totals are “full-time equivalent” positions, as reported by the companies.
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Rank Company Employees 1 Hewlett-Packard Co. 112,000 2 Safeway Inc. 107,000 3 Walt Disney Co. 100,000 4 BankAmerica Corp. 95,300 5 Seagate Technology Inc. 87,000 6 Gap Inc. 60,000 7 Rockwell Intl. Corp. 58,639 8 Intel Corp. 48,500 9 ABM Industries Inc. 47,000 10 Northrop Grumman Corp. 46,600 11 Dole Food Co. Inc. 46,000 12 Tenet Healthcare Corp. 45,276 13 Pinkerton’s Inc. 45,000 14 Chevron Corp. 40,820 15 Wells Fargo & Co. 34,948 16 Hilton Hotels Corp. 34,000 17 Computer Sciences Corp. 33,600 18 Litton Industries Inc. 33,500 19 Fluor Corp. 29,377 20 Consolidated Freightways 25,100 21 Foodmaker Inc. 25,000 22 Oracle Corp. 23,113 23 Atlantic Richfield Co. 22,800 24 Mattel Inc. 22,000 25 PG&E; Corp. 22,000 26 National Semiconductor 20,300 27 Read-Rite Corp. 19,507 28 Fleetwood Enterprises 18,000 29 Longs Drug Stores Corp. 16,000 30 Avery Dennison Corp. 15,800 31 Times Mirror Co. 15,330 32 Occidental Petroleum Corp. 14,270 33 Western Atlas Inc. 13,900 34 Regency Health Services 13,800 35 Edison International 13,067 36 Great Western Fin. Corp. 13,028 37 Unocal Corp. 11,658 38 Applied Materials 11,403 39 McKesson Corp. 11,300 40 Advanced Micro Devices 11,250 41 CKE Restaurants Inc. 11,100 42 Apple Computer Inc. 10,896 43 Solectron Corp. 10,781 44 Silicon Graphics Inc. 10,485 45 Charles Schwab Corp. 10,400 46 Transamerica Corp. 10,400 47 First American Financial 10,149 48 Sizzler International 10,000 49 Amdahl Corp. 9,900 50 Western Digital Corp. 9,628 51 UnionBanCal Corp. 9,538 52 Sun Microsystems Inc. 9,000 53 AirTouch Communications 8,800 54 Raychem Corp. 8,697 55 Apria Healthcare Group 8,255 56 Ingram Micro Inc. 8,119 57 Fritz Companies Inc. 8,100 58 GTI Corp. 8,075 59 Tandem Computers Inc. 7,938 60 ICN Pharmaceuticals Inc. 7,880 61 Pacific Enterprises 7,643 62 McClatchy Newspapers Inc. 7,590 63 Chiron Corp. 7,434 64 Jacobs Engineering Group 7,350 65 Mac Frugal’s Bargains 7,325 66 H.F. Ahmanson & Co. 7,221 67 Quantum Corp. 7,036 68 Thermo Instrument Systems 6,870 69 Potlatch Corp. 6,700 70 Varian Associates Inc. 6,700 71 Chart House Enterprises 6,600 72 WellPoint Health Networks 6,600 73 Guy F. Atkinson Co. 6,500 74 Applied Magnetics Corp. 6,400 75 Allergan Inc. 6,100 76 Beckman Instruments Inc. 6,079 77 AST Research Inc. 6,006 78 Gymboree Corp. 6,000 79 Qualcomm Inc. 6,000 80 Sola International Inc. 5,800 81 Bay Networks Inc. 5,758 82 Vivra Inc. 5,600 83 Sybase Inc. 5,484 84 Clorox Co. 5,300 85 Dames & Moore Inc. 5,300 86 3Com Corp. 5,190 87 Logicon Inc. 4,986 88 Franklin Resources 4,960 89 PacifiCare Health Systems 4,957 90 Bergen Brunswig Corp. 4,900 91 Countrywide Credit Ind. 4,825 92 Jenny Craig Inc. 4,800 93 Ross Stores Inc. 4,642 94 K2 Inc. 4,600 95 Smart & Final Inc. 4,577 96 Good Guys Inc. 4,500 97 Lam Research Corp. 4,500 98 Superior Industries Intl. 4,500 99 Informix Corp. 4,491 100 Sunrise Medical Inc. 4,417
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