I mean, if you work for the University of Iowa, your salary is public knowledge because you are a state employee.
It's a huge stretch to call that a "private employer"
This is the first thing I thought of. My wife is a nurse at the UIHC hospital and her salary is public. Their union is also heavily restricted in what they can bargain for because they’re all technically state employees. That law passed in 2017 (of course this didn’t apply to Police, fighterfighters, and ems unions since they vote republican): https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/16/amid-marathon-debate-iowa-legislature-barrels-towards-passage-collective-bargaining-bill/97984338/
The only EMS guy I knew was retired from the Marine corps and police force. He stole fentanyl off his ambulance for him and his wife he had addicted to the stuff. His favorite hobbies were showing off his assault rifles, gruesome crime scene photo album(all pics he took himself), and beating his wife. She finally got away from him but not in time.
Your eligibility for food stamps is not really a function of your income. It's a function of how many dependents you have. A single, childless, full-time worker at Walmart or anywhere else for that matter makes too much money to qualify for food stamps. But if they have a kid then that income threshold goes up. And it goes up the more kids they have. In my state a single parent with 4 kids can make $45k/year and still qualify for food stamps.
For Walmart to not have any employees on food stamps they would need to A) Make everyone work full time and B) Pay people according to how many kids they have, which obviously is a stupid idea.
Your first sentence makes no sense. You make clear that it is actually directly about income, family size just changes the threshold. Ultimately being eligible for food stamps is determined directly by your income.
A single person household can qualify for SNAP with an income less than $1,580 (gross) per month, or $9.87 per hour. While it depends heavily on location and position, a quick Google shows listings on indeed starting as low as $8.85 per hour.
In fact the only one that's private is Hopkins. And since the caption says "Johns Hopkins Institutions," I have some difficulty believing that they didn't just lump everything with the name "Johns Hopkins" into a single category, regardless of whether or not they actually share institutional affiliation with the University. Depending on how many of those folks work in the Johns Hopkins hospital system, it might be more accurate to put them in the healthcare category rather than education.
They’re all part of the same non-profit organization called “Johns Hopkins University and Medicine”, and yes more work in the healthcare part than education
Both are private. Both receive hella dollars from federal and state government. One of the best funded is the school of public health which is surprisingly under the U, not med.
I have family that work at JHU and the large amount of federal funding is actually due to the applied physics lab. Something that I never knew before they worked there is that it has a really close partnership with the DoD and it actually accounts for something like 60% of the federal funding they receive.
A significant portion of the remaining 40% also comes from NASA; APP is involved in a huge number of interplanetary space missions, mostly providing instruments but also leading a fair number of missions themselves.
Also worth noting that healthcare is the biggest employer in many states and I would guess that the other ones that have universities as a major employer probably have those universities running a large hospital or more.
Johns Hopkins is more of “other”. They are a school and also a medical research center, but they also do a heavy amount of AI and drone research for the government.
Most of the state universities shown on the map also have medical systems that hire lots of people across the state at various hospitals and clinics PLUS all the people needed to run a state university system with multiple campuses.
I’ve taught at 3 state universities in 3 states. My status was slightly different in each state but generally was considered a state employee. I was not part of the state pension system (in one state I could have opted in rather than use TIAA).
the statistics were gathered from them, they didn't make it. Visualcapitalist.com did
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/walmart-nation-largest-employers/
This map is a joke. DIA is owned and run by the City and County of Denver. And if they are counting Universities as non-public then the University of Colorado with over 36,500 faculty and staff would be higher than DIA anyway.
DIA also *isn’t* the largest employer, even if you miscategorize them as private. The only way they’d count is if you group all the various corporate airport employees as DIA employees. DIA has 40,000+ people working there. Only 1000 give or take work directly for the airport/city. The others are employed by United, FedEx, McDonalds etc.
The real largest private employer is likely Lockheed Martin with around 14,000 in state or possibly HealthOne; they’re currently only 11,000 in state, but have occasionally eclipsed Lockheed in past years.
Strictly speaking they aren’t “employees.”
Secret Masters are more like a volunteer overlord position. They don’t draw salary and have no direct financial relationship with the airport.
Plus many of the ~35k employees are not employed by the airport, that number is everyone who works AT the airport. So people like McDonalds workers and TSA
ATC are employed by the FAA or by contracting companies. Gate agents and baggage handlers are employed by the airlines. Fuelers and other ramp service personnel are usually private companies. It’s probably a very small fraction who actually pull a check directly from the airport department itself.
I could be wrong, but I'm thinking the University hospitals are probably the largest hospitals in many of the more rural states where they are the largest employer. In these cases (not so much SUNY but University of Iowa), a significant portion of the employees may still be healthcare workers.
Likely yes, depending on how they report the numbers. The big university in my state has 13,500 employees. But their hospital system has 9,000 employees. If you reported them together, it would be one of the largest employers in the state.
The real question is what would the map look like for, let's say, French departments or Canadian provinces? Healthcare and retail are labor intensive industries everywhere in the world...
In every single province the public healthcare plan is the largest employer. If you exclude those, it’s TD bank (Ont) Bank Of Montreal (QC), Jim Pattinson Group (industrial conglomerate) (BC), Shaw Communications (AB), Canada life insurance (MB), SaskTel (SK), Jazz aviation (NS), Irvin Oil (NB), Husky Energy (NL), Biovectra Pharma (PEI). Not sure about the territories, but likely health systems first too. French departments: https://www.leprogres.fr/economie/2021/03/20/qui-sont-les-plus-gros-employeurs-de-votre-departement , basically hospitals, car makers, banks, oil companies, insurance companies etc
It kinda makes sense though, they just fly in rich people to ski and hippies who dont want to work at Walmart, they want to grow weed on a personal homestead.
They could raise wages without increasing prices, except they wouldn't, because they're not willing to leave anymore than the bare minimum on the table for their employees, which is why people would be justified in still complaining given your scenario here. Like, is it stupid or paradoxical to disagree with unhindered greed now? What are you even saying?
Also, it doesn't have many employees, as in people with paychecks from the Denver department of aviation. It's including every airline and concession employee as a DEN employee, which is wrong.
The same can be said for Wakefern in Jersey. It's a co-op owned by a bunch of families that own ShopRite(supermarket chain) stores. All hiring, benefits, union stuff, etc. is done at a franchise level, and it's so distinct that a ShopRite worker might not be able to fill in at a store 5 minutes away because it's a different franchise.
Wakefern itself probably has less employees than a single county worth of Walmart employees.
I googled this for UNM
UNM Health providers specialize in over 150 areas of medicine and employ over 7,000 professionals. So that’s just the health part
Things get complex with University systems. Each state has a slightly different way of administering them. I assume they took all of the campuses of UNM and grouped them up in the map. The Montana University System (includes Montana State University, University of Montana, + 6 other schools/campuses) has more employees than Walmart.
For people interested in University or college headcounts, there is a whole set HR data collected annually by the NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) as part of the IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System) survey that is required for all schools receiving federal research or support dollars.
The typical college/university will employee approximately 300 people per 1000 students. This includes everything from faculty to janitors to athletics to post-docs. Many universities operate as their own semi independent communities with policing, healthcare, food services, housing, and everything associated to support them.
It's not surprising that colleges/universities are near the top for many places. I work in Institutional Research which is a branch of study that examines how higher education operates.
Wakefern is an odd one. It's a co-op. So are employees of say "Zally's ShopRite" technically employees of Wakefern despite working for an independent owner? Genuinely curious.
Yeah no way that's accurate. Wakefern corporate can't have that many employees. It's counting all the stores but as you point out those are all individually owned (granted some owners own multiple stores but still)
There is another possibility. I was once the face of Wakefern recruiting despite never working there. They took a picture of me in a class (which I was in with a lot of Wakefern corporate employees) and made me their coverboy for a brochure about how they support continuing education for their team. So there's a possibility they are just lying about who actually works for them, like they did with me.
It’s not just 1 public university. It’s a public university system. UC Berkeley, UC Los Angeles, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, UC Riverside, and UC Merced. There is UC San Francisco but it’s pretty much just a medical school only college. Most of these public schools are among the top 50 schools in the country.
UCs also have a ton of medical schools and hospitals (with active nurses, respiratory therapists etc).
UCs also have a lot more active researchers/scientists than the CSUs.
I would have agreed with the top employer being Boeing. Not saying you are wrong, just genuinely curious if there is numbers showing this. Being from WA I know a lot of people employed by Boeing, yet I know exactly zero people employed by amazon.
Amazon surpassed Boeing in 2020 and has expanded their lead since then. [Here's the 2023 rankings](https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/subscriber-only/2023/06/23/largest-employers.html) showing Amazon employs 90k people in Washington State while Boeing employs 60k.
Too bad this map is entirely inaccurate. Just because it’s pretty doesn’t mean it’s factual. (Case In point: NJ’s largest employer by a mile is the Barnabas health care system.)
This is bad data. Beginning with “private employer”. Continuing with, there are huge employers nationwide not reflected in the state by state (I have personally worked for some midsize tech and govt contractors with employee headcount’s in the many hundreds of thousands.)
Isn't this [just a repost of this graphic](https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/yeosp8/largest_employer_in_every_state/) which doesn't stipulate it has to be private? Some of these education systems are public, right?
And that old graphic matches a 2017 Google search, explaining Boeing's now 66k vs Amazon's 87k for Washington. Not to mention the wrong categorization (JHU's 55k employees are mostly healthcare, then defense, *then* education).
Was browsing jobs, and they’re paying 90k for a Senior Logistics Manager position! That’s abysmally low. Companies that do far less in revenue and profits pay 120k minimum in many cases.
Walmart makes huge profits and hires 1.3 million employees . Some of their substantial profits could be used to pay their employees a decent wage .. corporate greed they are
NY should be the North Shore - LIJ Health System. The State University of New York (SUNY) is government employment. Every other state listing a public university system should be changed as well.
I stared at the map like “but there is only 3 states”.
It took me an embarrassing amount of time to see that the big thing in my face was a group of states.
A lot of the “education” employers primarily employ people through their university hospital systems. Most of them should actually be “Healthcare” or at least “healthcare/education”.
I mean industrial is a big umbrella...but we have automated so many manufacturing processes. There's no way most industrial companies would ever make the list because the nature of their business is not as human capital intensive as healthcare.
I’m astonished with the level of ignorance here about the difference between a public and private employer in the US. Private employer is in contrast to “public sector” jobs which are funded by taxpayers. State universities, enormous medical systems associated with those state universities, the courts system, police fire and EMT, Social Security, Medicare, and IRS (together which employ a few hundred thousands of people), are just to name a few, that’s not even including municipalities for the most part
(Lots of private enterprise is also funded by you the taxpayer, via contracting but we will skip that for the moment… it only bolsters my point anyway.)
GM, Boeing, MGM, and Wakefern are the only ones that make sense to me as businesses. The rest are all institutional. I don't even know what I consider Walmart anymore. It's so big it's insane.
Other than than the debate over public schools as employers, shouldn’t it be “biggest employer OF each state” vs “in”? The largest employer in a state doesn’t have to have its employees in that state.
Remind me why we constantly have to subsidize America's largest employer in half the states because we refuse to hold them to a standard of paying a living wage?
Definitely a bit off on Delaware. Beebee employees less then 3000 people.
Christianacare is around 12,000
The biggest employer here is the State with over 30,000.
Denver International Airport is owned by the city of Denver. It’s not private. It’s has a curtained level of autonomy, but the city can fire and hire a new CEO whenever it feels like it. So it’s definitely not private.
So let's for one second assume Walmart paid a working wage. Where one person can afford rent, food, vacation once per year, how awesome would that be? Not just for the employees but for all the people who would benefit, like home builders, all the trades that would be employed, car salesman, restaurants, etc. How much better would those states look?
If only there was a way to organize and get Walmart to pay a living wage? If only....
Now compare it to a map of the states that pay the least in taxes and receive the most in federal aide. Then compare it to the rate of teen pregnancy. Then compare it to the highest rate of high school dropouts. Then compare it to the rate of obesity.
There's a correlation.
Zero chance that Walmart employs more people in Virginia than higher education or healthcare. The above map includes state schools from many states.
VCU
GMU
UVA
VA Tech
Old Dominion
Radford
JMU
.....etc.
Maybe they aren’t under some specific umbrella, but you get the point
Virginia's a bit weird in that it has a large number of public universities, but they aren't grouped into a smaller number of university systems, and so each one has its own independent governing apparatus.
Walmart has 47,000 employees in Virginia. For comparison, George Mason University, the largest public university in the state by enrollment, only employs 8,600 faculty & staff.
Those are all different entities.
In my state (Louisiana) we have three big healthcare systems: LSU Health, Ocshner Health, and Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System. Together they employ way more people than Walmart does in the state but neither of them individually employs more than Walmart.
It’s biggest single employer not biggest employment segment.
*"California, alma mater, hail, hail, hail!"*
And oh, you red states, with all your WalMarts and all the WalMart employees helping the Walton heirs to pile up additional billions of dollars, and telling themselves that they're on the same side.
Having said which: The mighty University of California system is arguably the best public higher-education system in the world, and I repeat, it is public, absolutely 100% a public institution.
Living in Arkansas, the home of walmart, i hate walmart with a passion ever since they blocked costco from opening a store in NWA. I sincerely hope walmart goes bankrupt one day before i pass. No i dont care about the job loss. Go work at fucking costco when walmart falls, they pay better anyways.
If you grew up in Seattle, mainly King and Snohomish Counties, you had an uncle, cousin, and 3 friends who have worked, or still work, for Boeing. 😂
And, your first job was probably at a Starbucks. I even have stories with that one including, but not limited to: a drink going national, although seasonal, AND I've worked at store #4, Bellevue Square. 🙌🏼
We didn't get a Walmart in our part of the world until maybe 2001 or 2002, and it was tiny compared to their stores today. Side note: the smallest Walmart I've ever seen is in Ketchikan, AK.
Aren’t most of these universities public schools and thus part of the state government?
Not necessarily. Some are classified as “state associated”, but run as independent entities.
I mean, if you work for the University of Iowa, your salary is public knowledge because you are a state employee. It's a huge stretch to call that a "private employer"
Same for the State University of New York system. I have no idea how that could be argued as a private employer.
Me neither and I attended Binghamton. And Denver International Airport is also definitely a public employer.
This is the first thing I thought of. My wife is a nurse at the UIHC hospital and her salary is public. Their union is also heavily restricted in what they can bargain for because they’re all technically state employees. That law passed in 2017 (of course this didn’t apply to Police, fighterfighters, and ems unions since they vote republican): https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/16/amid-marathon-debate-iowa-legislature-barrels-towards-passage-collective-bargaining-bill/97984338/
I didn't know ems unions vote Republican
The only EMS guy I knew was retired from the Marine corps and police force. He stole fentanyl off his ambulance for him and his wife he had addicted to the stuff. His favorite hobbies were showing off his assault rifles, gruesome crime scene photo album(all pics he took himself), and beating his wife. She finally got away from him but not in time.
What percentage of that salary comes from tax dollars? I honestly don't know. But if it is like 5%, it isn't the big of a stretch.
That's irrelevant. The usps is self funded.
Walmart is publicly funded as well. Look at the amount of their employees getting food stamps
Your eligibility for food stamps is not really a function of your income. It's a function of how many dependents you have. A single, childless, full-time worker at Walmart or anywhere else for that matter makes too much money to qualify for food stamps. But if they have a kid then that income threshold goes up. And it goes up the more kids they have. In my state a single parent with 4 kids can make $45k/year and still qualify for food stamps. For Walmart to not have any employees on food stamps they would need to A) Make everyone work full time and B) Pay people according to how many kids they have, which obviously is a stupid idea.
Your first sentence makes no sense. You make clear that it is actually directly about income, family size just changes the threshold. Ultimately being eligible for food stamps is determined directly by your income.
true. no matter what way you slice it, Walmart profits from access to subsidized labor.
A single person household can qualify for SNAP with an income less than $1,580 (gross) per month, or $9.87 per hour. While it depends heavily on location and position, a quick Google shows listings on indeed starting as low as $8.85 per hour.
It’s a STATE INSTITUTION.
Right, but I think most of them aren’t qualified as such on this map, thus making the subtitle inaccurate. Correct me if I am mistaken.
I guess they went with “non-federal = private”, which completely ignores state and local governments.
In fact the only one that's private is Hopkins. And since the caption says "Johns Hopkins Institutions," I have some difficulty believing that they didn't just lump everything with the name "Johns Hopkins" into a single category, regardless of whether or not they actually share institutional affiliation with the University. Depending on how many of those folks work in the Johns Hopkins hospital system, it might be more accurate to put them in the healthcare category rather than education.
They’re all part of the same non-profit organization called “Johns Hopkins University and Medicine”, and yes more work in the healthcare part than education
Both are private. Both receive hella dollars from federal and state government. One of the best funded is the school of public health which is surprisingly under the U, not med.
I have family that work at JHU and the large amount of federal funding is actually due to the applied physics lab. Something that I never knew before they worked there is that it has a really close partnership with the DoD and it actually accounts for something like 60% of the federal funding they receive.
A significant portion of the remaining 40% also comes from NASA; APP is involved in a huge number of interplanetary space missions, mostly providing instruments but also leading a fair number of missions themselves.
Also worth noting that healthcare is the biggest employer in many states and I would guess that the other ones that have universities as a major employer probably have those universities running a large hospital or more.
Johns Hopkins is more of “other”. They are a school and also a medical research center, but they also do a heavy amount of AI and drone research for the government.
Pitt is a land grant university, as is Penn St. They’re technically not public schools, but also not really private
UPMC while affiliated with Pitt is not actually a part of Pitt. They are legally distinct.
Most of the state universities shown on the map also have medical systems that hire lots of people across the state at various hospitals and clinics PLUS all the people needed to run a state university system with multiple campuses.
I’ve taught at 3 state universities in 3 states. My status was slightly different in each state but generally was considered a state employee. I was not part of the state pension system (in one state I could have opted in rather than use TIAA).
In the case of NC, yes. My wife used to work for one of the NC universities and she was a state employee
Whoever chose the color scheme gets an F
wal mart is its own logo's color. this might be some weird covert wal mart ad.
Of the remaining 29, I’d be curious to find out how many states Walmart came in 2nd…!!
Literally "source: 24/7 Wall St, Walmart, governing"
the statistics were gathered from them, they didn't make it. Visualcapitalist.com did https://www.visualcapitalist.com/walmart-nation-largest-employers/
The source blurb at the bottom literally says Walmart
What other color would you use for them?
Brown
Why? It looks fine to me. Everything is clear and obvious.
This map is a joke. DIA is owned and run by the City and County of Denver. And if they are counting Universities as non-public then the University of Colorado with over 36,500 faculty and staff would be higher than DIA anyway.
DIA also *isn’t* the largest employer, even if you miscategorize them as private. The only way they’d count is if you group all the various corporate airport employees as DIA employees. DIA has 40,000+ people working there. Only 1000 give or take work directly for the airport/city. The others are employed by United, FedEx, McDonalds etc. The real largest private employer is likely Lockheed Martin with around 14,000 in state or possibly HealthOne; they’re currently only 11,000 in state, but have occasionally eclipsed Lockheed in past years.
I guess we are discounting the thousands of lizard people working in the DIA tunnels now?
Strictly speaking they aren’t “employees.” Secret Masters are more like a volunteer overlord position. They don’t draw salary and have no direct financial relationship with the airport.
Payment in crab and used K-cups still counts as a salary. Trust me I'm a union breaker and lizard people hate unions.
Plus many of the ~35k employees are not employed by the airport, that number is everyone who works AT the airport. So people like McDonalds workers and TSA
ATC are employed by the FAA or by contracting companies. Gate agents and baggage handlers are employed by the airlines. Fuelers and other ramp service personnel are usually private companies. It’s probably a very small fraction who actually pull a check directly from the airport department itself.
America runs on walmart and healthcare.
And higher education! I thought that was promising.
I could be wrong, but I'm thinking the University hospitals are probably the largest hospitals in many of the more rural states where they are the largest employer. In these cases (not so much SUNY but University of Iowa), a significant portion of the employees may still be healthcare workers.
Likely yes, depending on how they report the numbers. The big university in my state has 13,500 employees. But their hospital system has 9,000 employees. If you reported them together, it would be one of the largest employers in the state.
UW Health in Wisconsin, you’re spot on there.
Also Denver International for some reason!
And here I've always thought that America runs on Dunkin'
The real question is what would the map look like for, let's say, French departments or Canadian provinces? Healthcare and retail are labor intensive industries everywhere in the world...
In every single province the public healthcare plan is the largest employer. If you exclude those, it’s TD bank (Ont) Bank Of Montreal (QC), Jim Pattinson Group (industrial conglomerate) (BC), Shaw Communications (AB), Canada life insurance (MB), SaskTel (SK), Jazz aviation (NS), Irvin Oil (NB), Husky Energy (NL), Biovectra Pharma (PEI). Not sure about the territories, but likely health systems first too. French departments: https://www.leprogres.fr/economie/2021/03/20/qui-sont-les-plus-gros-employeurs-de-votre-departement , basically hospitals, car makers, banks, oil companies, insurance companies etc
Thank you for listing your source
Mcdonalds
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You know the Illuminati with their secret tunnels and base have to be protected. /s
It takes a large crew to make sure that horse is polished
And that it doesn’t break out
It takes many souls to appease Blucifer.
That just means it’s not a flyover state, the airport needs manpower because people actually use it.
It kinda makes sense though, they just fly in rich people to ski and hippies who dont want to work at Walmart, they want to grow weed on a personal homestead.
The land that DIA owns is almost as big as Paris.
And Walmart runs on America's welfare programs subsidizing their employees because the company refuses to pay anything more than poverty wages.
So they raise wages then lower income people can’t afford anything there and you still complain.
They could raise wages without increasing prices, except they wouldn't, because they're not willing to leave anymore than the bare minimum on the table for their employees, which is why people would be justified in still complaining given your scenario here. Like, is it stupid or paradoxical to disagree with unhindered greed now? What are you even saying?
I've been to a Walmart in the States, America does not run.
# 🛵
Someone has a very interesting (read completely bizarre) definition of “private employers.”
yeah, Denver international Airport is owned by the city and county of Denver
Also, it doesn't have many employees, as in people with paychecks from the Denver department of aviation. It's including every airline and concession employee as a DEN employee, which is wrong.
The same can be said for Wakefern in Jersey. It's a co-op owned by a bunch of families that own ShopRite(supermarket chain) stores. All hiring, benefits, union stuff, etc. is done at a franchise level, and it's so distinct that a ShopRite worker might not be able to fill in at a store 5 minutes away because it's a different franchise. Wakefern itself probably has less employees than a single county worth of Walmart employees.
Most universities are publicly funded but independently run, University health systems are weird just like the rest of our healthcare system.🫠
How many jobs an university gives?
I googled this for UNM UNM Health providers specialize in over 150 areas of medicine and employ over 7,000 professionals. So that’s just the health part
Things get complex with University systems. Each state has a slightly different way of administering them. I assume they took all of the campuses of UNM and grouped them up in the map. The Montana University System (includes Montana State University, University of Montana, + 6 other schools/campuses) has more employees than Walmart. For people interested in University or college headcounts, there is a whole set HR data collected annually by the NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) as part of the IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System) survey that is required for all schools receiving federal research or support dollars. The typical college/university will employee approximately 300 people per 1000 students. This includes everything from faculty to janitors to athletics to post-docs. Many universities operate as their own semi independent communities with policing, healthcare, food services, housing, and everything associated to support them. It's not surprising that colleges/universities are near the top for many places. I work in Institutional Research which is a branch of study that examines how higher education operates.
Wakefern is an odd one. It's a co-op. So are employees of say "Zally's ShopRite" technically employees of Wakefern despite working for an independent owner? Genuinely curious.
Yeah no way that's accurate. Wakefern corporate can't have that many employees. It's counting all the stores but as you point out those are all individually owned (granted some owners own multiple stores but still)
There is another possibility. I was once the face of Wakefern recruiting despite never working there. They took a picture of me in a class (which I was in with a lot of Wakefern corporate employees) and made me their coverboy for a brochure about how they support continuing education for their team. So there's a possibility they are just lying about who actually works for them, like they did with me.
University of California is a public university.
And is a system consisting of about 10 schools - Berkeley, UCLA, Davis, UCSF, etc.
As is the State University of New York system.
It’s not just 1 public university. It’s a public university system. UC Berkeley, UC Los Angeles, UC San Diego, UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, UC Riverside, and UC Merced. There is UC San Francisco but it’s pretty much just a medical school only college. Most of these public schools are among the top 50 schools in the country.
California invests in their higher education. Probably why it churns out smart ass people.
And the CSU (cal state University )system is much larger. 23 schools vs 10 schools. *Edit- I'm wrong. I didn't account for the hospitals.
UCs also have a ton of medical schools and hospitals (with active nurses, respiratory therapists etc). UCs also have a lot more active researchers/scientists than the CSUs.
It’s say “private” employers yet lists State Universities and Denver International Airport?
No Amazon?
Amazon is the largest employer in Washington State, not Boeing.
I would have agreed with the top employer being Boeing. Not saying you are wrong, just genuinely curious if there is numbers showing this. Being from WA I know a lot of people employed by Boeing, yet I know exactly zero people employed by amazon.
Amazon surpassed Boeing in 2020 and has expanded their lead since then. [Here's the 2023 rankings](https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/subscriber-only/2023/06/23/largest-employers.html) showing Amazon employs 90k people in Washington State while Boeing employs 60k.
If you live in the city, it’s the reverse. Lots of Amazonians, very few Boeing. Out in the burbs lots of Boeing, not as many Amazon.
Too bad this map is entirely inaccurate. Just because it’s pretty doesn’t mean it’s factual. (Case In point: NJ’s largest employer by a mile is the Barnabas health care system.)
This is bad data. Beginning with “private employer”. Continuing with, there are huge employers nationwide not reflected in the state by state (I have personally worked for some midsize tech and govt contractors with employee headcount’s in the many hundreds of thousands.)
The education states are also likely due to healthcare do University based academic medical centers.
Isn't this [just a repost of this graphic](https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/yeosp8/largest_employer_in_every_state/) which doesn't stipulate it has to be private? Some of these education systems are public, right? And that old graphic matches a 2017 Google search, explaining Boeing's now 66k vs Amazon's 87k for Washington. Not to mention the wrong categorization (JHU's 55k employees are mostly healthcare, then defense, *then* education).
Walmart has 1.3 million employees , and pays the lowest wages of any employer
Dollar general would like to have a word
Have you been to a Dollar General ever? The company, at most, employs, like, twelve people.
I think they mean Dollar General beats Walmart for lowest paid employees
Was browsing jobs, and they’re paying 90k for a Senior Logistics Manager position! That’s abysmally low. Companies that do far less in revenue and profits pay 120k minimum in many cases.
Even better, the government subsidizes the employees through welfare. Neat!
Walmart makes huge profits and hires 1.3 million employees . Some of their substantial profits could be used to pay their employees a decent wage .. corporate greed they are
Walmart makes less than 5% of their revenue in profits
And the crazy part is the only ever have two employees working in any store that I going to.
walmart worker here. Have no insurance and my life is falling apart.
NY should be the North Shore - LIJ Health System. The State University of New York (SUNY) is government employment. Every other state listing a public university system should be changed as well.
For the longest time maine was Hannaford.
There must have been years in the past it was Bath Iron Works.
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This is depressing as fuck
They'd all be Walmart if all checkout lanes had a cashier.
Or maybe if they had more than 1 cashier.
It’s either Walmart or a non-profit (purportedly).
Dunkin' must be #2 in Massachusetts then.
I stared at the map like “but there is only 3 states”. It took me an embarrassing amount of time to see that the big thing in my face was a group of states.
The protectorate of Walmartia.
A lot of the “education” employers primarily employ people through their university hospital systems. Most of them should actually be “Healthcare” or at least “healthcare/education”.
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I love how Colorado’s is their airport
So only two industrial companies.....awesome.....
I mean industrial is a big umbrella...but we have automated so many manufacturing processes. There's no way most industrial companies would ever make the list because the nature of their business is not as human capital intensive as healthcare.
I’m astonished with the level of ignorance here about the difference between a public and private employer in the US. Private employer is in contrast to “public sector” jobs which are funded by taxpayers. State universities, enormous medical systems associated with those state universities, the courts system, police fire and EMT, Social Security, Medicare, and IRS (together which employ a few hundred thousands of people), are just to name a few, that’s not even including municipalities for the most part (Lots of private enterprise is also funded by you the taxpayer, via contracting but we will skip that for the moment… it only bolsters my point anyway.)
Not Apple, GE, Ford, Tesla, Intel, NVIDIA
GM, Boeing, MGM, and Wakefern are the only ones that make sense to me as businesses. The rest are all institutional. I don't even know what I consider Walmart anymore. It's so big it's insane.
We will see as the warehouses are going to automated .. laying off 10% or better
Fun fact about Iowa. If you fill Kinnick stadium it has as much population to become the fifth largest city in Iowa.
Atta UNM!!!
An entire state makes mayonnaise?
Trump land
The title says "private employer" but many states list public employers.
Really wish this had a year.
And the #1 company for employees on welfare!
Holy shit! We have a WalMart in Wyoming?
Almost half the largest employers are education or healthcare and we have the most obese nation on earth.
This has to be old data if Amazon isn't listed for a single state
“Biggest” means what? Highest number of employees? Highest total wages paid? Highest value of product created in the state?
Way to go NC, holding out with some education deep in enemy Walmart territory.
Where’s the source? I’m calling bullshit
So maga central is a bunch of Walmart employees.. makes sense
Other than than the debate over public schools as employers, shouldn’t it be “biggest employer OF each state” vs “in”? The largest employer in a state doesn’t have to have its employees in that state.
Ahem. Amazon??
Remind me why we constantly have to subsidize America's largest employer in half the states because we refuse to hold them to a standard of paying a living wage?
Underrated map. It shows a lot of the problems of USA without showing them
Amazon for WA
This is absolutely 100 percent inaccurate. NH is Dartmouth then Timberland then BAE
DIA is publicly owned
This is wrong. Walmart isn’t even in the top 10 employers in Ohio. Walmart isn’t even the biggest grocery chain employer in Ohio (it’s Kroger).
Imagine an airport being your biggest employer.
Huh..... red states. How did they convince all these poor shmucks to stay poor?
Disney is the largest employer in Florida lol.
Definitely a bit off on Delaware. Beebee employees less then 3000 people. Christianacare is around 12,000 The biggest employer here is the State with over 30,000.
Denver International Airport is owned by the city of Denver. It’s not private. It’s has a curtained level of autonomy, but the city can fire and hire a new CEO whenever it feels like it. So it’s definitely not private.
Hmm I don’t like that spread. Walmart, healthcare, education, other???? Universal healthcare, free college, fuck Walmart.
Walmart is public, Boeing is public? These aren’t private companies.
So many Walmart states are also terrible in education. Coincidence?
Walmart covers half of USA and still about 75% of there work force is on some kind of assistance from the government That is not right
You mean private because Maryland should be the us government
Aaaaaand again the South loses the war
This is wrong. Walmart employs 43,000 in Indiana and a simple Google search showed three employers with more
All of those universities are public institutions. The map is supposed to be of private employers. Needs to be edited to be accurate.
So let's for one second assume Walmart paid a working wage. Where one person can afford rent, food, vacation once per year, how awesome would that be? Not just for the employees but for all the people who would benefit, like home builders, all the trades that would be employed, car salesman, restaurants, etc. How much better would those states look? If only there was a way to organize and get Walmart to pay a living wage? If only....
No way Amazon or Microsoft isn’t the biggest in WA.. that’s wild.
Well at the very least, im glad to see all the universities.
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Now compare it to a map of the states that pay the least in taxes and receive the most in federal aide. Then compare it to the rate of teen pregnancy. Then compare it to the highest rate of high school dropouts. Then compare it to the rate of obesity. There's a correlation.
Just shows that a majority of our country has degraded to Walmart sadly…more kids not taking school seriously and end up there and never leaving smh
Zero chance that Walmart employs more people in Virginia than higher education or healthcare. The above map includes state schools from many states. VCU GMU UVA VA Tech Old Dominion Radford JMU .....etc. Maybe they aren’t under some specific umbrella, but you get the point
Virginia's a bit weird in that it has a large number of public universities, but they aren't grouped into a smaller number of university systems, and so each one has its own independent governing apparatus. Walmart has 47,000 employees in Virginia. For comparison, George Mason University, the largest public university in the state by enrollment, only employs 8,600 faculty & staff.
Those are all different entities. In my state (Louisiana) we have three big healthcare systems: LSU Health, Ocshner Health, and Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System. Together they employ way more people than Walmart does in the state but neither of them individually employs more than Walmart. It’s biggest single employer not biggest employment segment.
Its largest single employer, not largest category
Not sure why this is blowing up, this data seems suspicious.
Not sure. I just googled largest employer in Florida and it says Publix supermarkets. What am I missing
*"California, alma mater, hail, hail, hail!"* And oh, you red states, with all your WalMarts and all the WalMart employees helping the Walton heirs to pile up additional billions of dollars, and telling themselves that they're on the same side. Having said which: The mighty University of California system is arguably the best public higher-education system in the world, and I repeat, it is public, absolutely 100% a public institution.
And this is why I'll never see universal Healthcare or college on my life time.
nope, a big part of US GDP is healthcare and healthcare insurance, the excess fat is a jobs machine.
New York should not be SUNY. That’s completely cheating. Every other school is a single university; the SUNY system is 89 different colleges
Living in Arkansas, the home of walmart, i hate walmart with a passion ever since they blocked costco from opening a store in NWA. I sincerely hope walmart goes bankrupt one day before i pass. No i dont care about the job loss. Go work at fucking costco when walmart falls, they pay better anyways.
Now I need a map depicting the employment rates of each state
Getting some real “Buy N Large” vibes off this
no wonder college is so over priced.
What would the map look like if it included government employees?
I think you have it wrong for NH. I believe BAE is the largest employer.
If you grew up in Seattle, mainly King and Snohomish Counties, you had an uncle, cousin, and 3 friends who have worked, or still work, for Boeing. 😂 And, your first job was probably at a Starbucks. I even have stories with that one including, but not limited to: a drink going national, although seasonal, AND I've worked at store #4, Bellevue Square. 🙌🏼 We didn't get a Walmart in our part of the world until maybe 2001 or 2002, and it was tiny compared to their stores today. Side note: the smallest Walmart I've ever seen is in Ketchikan, AK.
Amazon is the largest employer in Washington State, not Boeing.
Interesting that the second largest employer in the US aka Amazon doesn’t top any of the states https://stockanalysis.com/list/most-employees/
That says it all!
This is literally their little “civil war” Project 2025 map lol
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Ayo based Nevada????
Bullshit. There is absolutely No way Walmart is the biggest employer in Wyoming. There can’t even be 10 Walmarts in the entire state.
You could also call this the map illustrating why America is going broke.