Can you name the top 50 American companies by number of employees?

Rank	Company	No. of employees
1		2,100,000
2		426,751
3		400,600
4		400,000
5		355,000
6		338,000
7		324,600
8		312,000
9		294,000
10		288,122
11		287,000
12		272,200
14		266,590
14		260,519
15		260,000
16		255,195
17		245,109
18		239,831
19		215,460
20		210,500
21		208,200
22		208,000
23		202,000
24		197,500
25		194,400

Rank	Company	No. of employees
26		180,000
26		180,000
28		174,000
29		170,000
30		166,000
30		166,000
32		164,000
33		161,500
34		160,500
35		160,000
36		156,000
37		149,000
38		145,000
39		139,600
40		137,000
41		137,000
42		136,500
43		134,000
44		132,000
45		130,000
46		129,000
47		127,700
47		127,000
49		127,000
50		117,100

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America's Top 50 Employers Quiz

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	CJLeopold:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 04:09 GMT		33 points
	Wow, that must be like 1 employee per Starbucks!

	nashedpotatoes:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 04:11 GMT		5 points
	@Fidelio I don't remember which one but I put in Burger King or some other fast food place and it (Yum Brands) came up.

	AceRockolla:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 04:16 GMT		25 points
	Could you accept Kraft for Kraft Foods please?

	rockgolf:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 04:20 GMT		22 points
	It's scary how few of these companies actually make anything.

	geowiz85:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 04:21 GMT		7 points
	no Sporcle bonus answer?

	kcostell:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 04:27 GMT		7 points
	Surprised to see such a huge gap between Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Co. I know Pepsi owns some other brands, but I didn't expect so many people to be working for them.

	thedpr:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 04:28 GMT		2 points
	Please accept WalgreenS, not just Walgreen.

	strags11:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 04:30 GMT		22 points
	The wise man mentally runs through the Fortune 100 and the DJIA 30. The trivia geek totally blanks on those, so he frantically types in the sponsors of every major American sports venue he can think of. Count me in the latter group.

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	xander:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 05:42 GMT		23 points
	Perhaps it would help me in my job search if I familiarized myself with these companies

	JimmyJazz25B:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 06:11 GMT		27 points
	Remember when we used to manufacture stuff? Neither do I.

	gwukelic:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 06:18 GMT		2 points
	I was thinking the same thing geowiz85! There could definitely be a witty Sporcle bonus answer on this quiz, in my opinion. Great quiz nonetheless.

	JustANiceGuy:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 06:51 GMT		23 points
	Perhaps it doesn't count as a "company" but the Federal government is right up there with WalMart. According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, "With about 2.0 million civilian employees, the Federal Government, excluding the Postal Service, is the Nation's largest employer ...EXCLUDING the Postal Service. No matter what your political affiliation, that's a lot of people.

	amwoods13:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 07:10 GMT		4 points
	Actually, accepting just Walgreen is correct. While the stores are called Walgreens, the company is simply Walgreen Co., which is how it was listed on the Fortune 500 list.

	Ulkomaalainen:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 07:38 GMT		13 points
	About "making" stuff: many things in the primary (agricultural) and especially secondary (manufacturing) sector can be made by automatons, robots and such like. So these companies tend to be comparatively lightweights on the employment market (albeit the heavier industries still have a lot to do). As you see, many of these companies do not "make" much, but they provide services that cannot (yet) be provided by machines, like going door to door for UPS, waiting tables in restaurants. The importance of the service sector is growing, but just looking at the numbers of employees somewhat even overstates it. Apart from that, many of the mentioned companies may not manufacture products but do not underestimate the importance of provided services like getting stuff from me to you to the economy.

	adamnvillani:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 07:57 GMT		5 points
	Yep. By dollar value, the U.S. is making more "stuff" than ever before. It's just that much of it is high-value things like airplane parts that don't actually employ so many people as a traditional widget-maker.

	adamnvillani:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 08:03 GMT		1 point
	Kind of odd, I went through the list and don't think I know anybody well who's currently employed by anybody on the list. But just among my immediate family and close friends, there are people were in the past employed by Macy's, Boeing, General Motors, Walt Disney, Home Depot, and Hewlett-Packard.

	General:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 09:23 GMT		1 point
	I was thinking the top 50 "employers" so I tried U.S.Army. D'oh! Ha ha.

	Happ_Hazzard:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 10:42 GMT		-1 points
	Walmart is evil.

	jrfeenix:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 11:29 GMT		3 points
	It seems as though there are three supermarket chains on this list (excluding Walmart and Target who are more frequently including grocery sections), and I've never seen any of them. Stop & Shop and Price Chopper must be hard to overcome here in CT.

	Statto2:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 13:55 GMT		3 points
	I'll be interested if anybody knows how the Walt Disney figures breakdown between film/tv production, theme parks, shops etc.

	Tony_A:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 14:01 GMT		3 points
	Sam Walton must be spinning in his grave to see that his store, which was to only serve those who didn't have a mall or some other store to shop is now in every corner of every city. There are 4 that I know of, including one of the 24-hour superstores, near my home, which is about 12 miles SW of downtown Baltimore

	dadof4js:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 14:10 GMT		5 points
	Of these 50 "American Companies" how many are employing more and more people in overseas countries like India and China; sometimes as much as 50% of their workforce. In the last few years IBM has added over 50,000 new jobs; less than 10% in the US

	Khazar49:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 14:31 GMT		19 points
	Don't know about you, but "Hospital Corporation of America" sounds incredibly disturbing and Orwellian to me.

	cgrapes429:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 14:53 GMT		-1 points
	I think that Sam Walton would be happy to see that his store is able to serve most American people by giving them low prices (as opposed to paying retail at a mall).

	esoryma:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 15:20 GMT		1 point
	This may be a little pedantic, but the rankings for the last four are a little off. I believe it should be 47, 48, 48, 50. (That is, both 127,000s should be ranked the same.)

	cocky:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 15:32 GMT		0 points
	A lot of these don't make anything, but many sell or deliver things others make.

	PublicEnemy:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 15:49 GMT		14 points
	Sure Wal-mart supplies 2.1 million jobs, but they kill small businesses, and import all their goods from China which kills American manufacturers. Wal-mart is still bad for America.

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	gigimacmurray:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 16:13 GMT		-4 points
	I surprised myself with typing in Walt Disney, and it worked. I typed in all these airlines, nope, no go. Same with USPS, nope, US Army, nope. I was getting hung up the most of why those weren't working. I thought "McDonald Douglass" would work, nope it's Lockheed Martin. Close. I thought of every fast-food joint on busy roads, and every chain store I've ever been to. Yep, those came up. But Krogers? They're in the Midwest, but not the East Coast.

	runDTC52:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 16:29 GMT		-2 points
	the Government?

	stwentzell:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 16:48 GMT		1 point
	I know Cargill is not in the source but it should at least be a bonus. With 131,000 employees it would be 45th. It's not on the list because it's not publicly traded but if it were it would be a top ten company by wealth

	RodeoJoe:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 17:05 GMT		3 points
	Some consistency regarding accepting subsidiaries would be appreciated. I find it very curious that this quiz accepted Dairy Queen for Berkshire Hathaway and KFC for Yum Brands, but would not accept NBC for General Electric.

	DesmondJones:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 18:08 GMT		7 points
	Was anybody else surprised that PepsiCo was #9 while Coca-Cola was #39?

	Stran:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 18:25 GMT		3 points
	I was amazed to score on the 51st percentile with just 6 answers correct!! :-)

	Scout_Number_4:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 19:05 GMT		12 points
	No oil companies--that surprised me.

	cmills82:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 19:47 GMT		1 point
	One of the best I've done in a while

	Propellerhead:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 20:25 GMT		3 points
	Now it's my turn to be pedantic. Technically, "Yum Brands" should be "Yum! Brands". And you should accept just "Yum" instead of making us type in the whole thing. Good quiz overall, though.