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Largest Employers in Los Angeles County
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Employer |
Main or Local Headquarters |
Number of Employees |
|
2006 |
2002 |
| County
of Los Angeles |
Los Angeles |
93,200 |
93,354 |
| Los
Angeles Unified School District |
Los Angeles |
74,632 |
80,802 |
|
Federal Government* |
Los Angeles |
53,200 |
56,100 |
|
University of California, Los Angeles |
Los Angeles |
35,543 |
36,354 |
| City
of Los Angeles |
Los Angeles |
53,471 |
51,150 |
| State
of California (non-education) |
Los Angeles |
30,200 |
32,300 |
| Kaiser
Permanente |
Pasadena |
32,180 |
27,635 |
|
Northrop Grumman Corp. |
Los Angeles |
21,000 |
10,000 |
| Boeing
Co. |
Long Beach |
15,825 |
23,468 |
|
Kroger Co. (former
Ralph's Grocery Co.) |
Los Angeles |
14,000** |
17,211 |
|
University of Southern California |
Los Angeles |
12,379 |
9,297 |
| Bank
of America |
Los Angeles |
12,200 |
11,943 |
|
Vons |
Arcadia |
12,116 |
N/A |
| Target |
Pasadena |
12,066 |
10,993 |
|
Walt Disney Co. |
Burbank |
N/A |
11,200 |
|
Metropolitan Transit Authority (L.A. Co.) |
Los Angeles |
10,402 |
N/A |
|
Employer |
Main or Local Headquarters |
Number of Employees |
|
2006 |
2002 |
| Long
Beach Unified School District |
Long Beach |
9,622 |
10,152 |
|
AT&T Inc. (former SBC
Pacific Bell) |
Los Angeles |
9,500 |
10,670 |
|
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
Los Angeles |
8,817 |
8,582 |
|
Wells Fargo |
Los Angeles |
8,458 |
N/A |
|
California Institute of Technology |
Pasadena |
8,453 |
N/A |
|
Amgen Inc. |
Thousand Oaks |
8,000 |
N/A |
|
Fedex Corp. |
Memphis, TN |
7,976 |
N/A |
|
Albertsons Southern California Region |
Fullerton |
7,431 |
N/A |
| ABM
Industries Inc. |
Los Angeles |
7,221 |
9,250 |
|
Providence Health System |
Burbank |
7,058 |
N/A |
| City
of Long Beach |
Long Beach |
6,035 |
6,657 |
| Edison
International |
Rosemead |
6,768 |
5,565 |
|
Catholic Healthcare West |
Pasadean |
6,338 |
N/A |
|
UPS |
Burbank |
7.058 |
N/A |
|
Washington Mutual Inc. |
Los Angeles |
6,000 |
6,157 |
* Includes U.S. Postal
Service
** LA Business Estimate
N/A Figure not available
Source: California Employment
Development Department,
The Los Angeles Business
Journal, and Almanac research
The
largest worldwide employer based in Los Angeles County is the
Walt Disney Company of
Burbank.
In addition to the more than 11,000 workers employed
in Los Angles County, Disney employs more than 100,000
elsewhere.
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