List of largest United States–based employers globally

This is a list of United States–based companies having the most employees globally. 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

Employment by major industry sector

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.^[8]

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

• Companies portal

• List of companies of the United States by state
• List of largest companies in the United States by revenue
• List of largest employers
• List of multinational corporations
• List of wealthiest religious organizations
• List of largest corporate profits and losses
• List of public corporations by market capitalization
• List of most valuable brands
• List of countries by GDP sector composition
• List of companies by research and development spending
• List of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue
• List of the largest software companies
• List of largest Internet companies
• List of largest companies by revenue
• List of largest technology companies by revenue
• List of largest manufacturing companies by revenue
• List of largest financial services companies by revenue
• List of largest oil and gas companies by revenue
• List of private-equity firms
• Lists of companies
• Lists of occupations
• List of types of tradesman
• Fortune Global 500
• Forbes Global 2000
• List of DJIA companies
• NASDAQ Financial-100
• List of S&P 500 companies
• List of S&P 400 companies
• Economy of the United States
• List of economic expansions in the United States
• List of recessions in the United States
• Unemployment in the United States
• Technological unemployment

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8. 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.
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