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The World’s 500 Largest Corporate Employers

March 4th, 2007

Giant retailer Wal-Mart Stores, with 1.8 million employees, tops the first published list of the world’s 500 largest corporate employers. Home to nearly half of the companies on the list, the United States boasts the largest employers in 13 out of 28 industries, according to the study by My Global Career, a blog-based careers site for global workers and employers seeking global-ready talent. Links to each employer’s job site are included in this free directory of companies that employ more than 45 million workers around the world. Job seekers can search the list or browse it by rank (1-500), industry, country, or company name. View the full list…

1. Wal-Mart Stores, United States - 1,800,000 employees
2. Deutsche Post, Germany - 502,545 employees
3. Siemens Group, Germany - 461,000 employees
4. McDonald’s, United States - 447,000 employees
5. Carrefour, France - 440,479 employees
6. Compass Group, United Kingdom - 410,074 employees
7. United Parcel Service, United States - 407,000 employees
8. Gazprom, Russia - 396,571 employees
9. DaimlerChrysler, Germany - 382,724 employees
10. Hitachi, Japan - 355,879 employees

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