THE TIMES 100 : THE HUMAN FACTOR : Top 100 Employers
Companies ranked by total employees worldwide in 1992.
Total Calif. % Rank Company Emplys Emplys Calif 1 Hewlett-Packard Co. 92,600 25,000 27 2 BankAmerica Corp. 83,200 NA NA 3 Safeway Inc. 78,538 14,000 18 4 Rockwell International 77,000 22,000 29 5 Lockheed Corp. 71,000 NA NA 6 Walt Disney Co. 70,000 17,500 25 7 Hilton Hotels Corp. 70,000 6,930 10 8 Pacific Telesis Corp. 61,346 54,288 88 9 Chevron Corp. 55,123 18,000 33 10 Dole Food Co. Inc. 50,000 9,754 20 11 Litton Industries 49,500 6,400 13 12 National Medical Enterprises 49,500 16,000 32 13 Pinkerton’s Inc. 45,000 8,300 18 14 Foodmaker Inc. 44,350 NA NA 15 Fluor Corp. 43,605 3,120 7 16 Seagate Technology 43,000 3,245 8 17 Gap Inc. 41,478 5,721 14 18 Pacific Enterprises 41,000 9,560 23 19 Consolidated Freightways 37,900 6,875 18 20 American Building Maint. 35,000 11,000 31 21 Vons Cos. 35,000 35,000 100 22 Northrop Corp. 33,000 27,000 82 23 First Interstate Bancorp 30,281 8,951 30 24 Times Mirror Co. 27,732 11,338 41 25 National Semiconductor 27,200 NA NA 26 Atlantic Richfield Co. 26,800 5,300 20 27 Pacific Gas & Electric 26,600 26,600 100 28 Computer Sciences Corp. 26,500 4,000 15 29 Intel Corp. 25,800 6,000 23 30 Carter Hawley Hale 24,000 20,000 83 31 Teledyne Inc. 23,800 8,000 34 32 Occidental Petroleum 23,600 800 3 33 Wells Fargo & Co. 21,000 21,000 100 34 Price Co. 20,000 8,000 40 35 MagneTek Inc. 18,000 NA NA 36 Sizzler International 17,800 6,450 36 37 SCE Corp. 17,100 17,100 100 38 Avery Dennison Corp. 16,550 2,200 13 39 House of Fabrics 16,411 3,130 19 40 Great Western Financial 16,016 NA NA 41 Longs Drug Stores 15,000 10,087 67 42 Mattel Inc. 15,000 1,500 10 43 Transamerica Corp. 15,000 NA NA 44 Unocal Corp. 14,687 5,888 40 45 Apple Computer Inc. 14,000 6,000 43 46 Sun Microsystems 13,300 6,600 50 47 McKesson Corp. 13,000 1,280 10 48 Carl Karcher Enterprises 12,035 12,035 100 49 Conner Peripherals 12,000 1,900 16 50 Fleetwood Enterprises 12,000 2,500 21 51 Advanced Micro Devices 11,600 2,800 24 52 Read-Rite Corp. 11,400 1,500 13 53 Raychem Corp. 11,187 3,206 29 54 Syntex Corp. 11,000 4,319 39 55 Tandem Computers Inc. 10,784 4,424 41 56 H.F. Ahmanson & Co. 10,292 6,332 62 57 FHP International Corp. 10,002 NA NA 58 Caesars World 9,673 100 1 59 Amdahl Corp. 9,400 5,100 54 60 Rohr Inc. 9,230 5,600 61 61 Maxtor Corp. 8,822 765 9 62 Oracle Systems Corp. 8,678 2,469 28 63 National Health Labs 8,500 648 8 64 Ross Stores 8,200 4,200 51 65 Varian Associates 8,100 3,700 46 66 Community Psychiatric Ctrs. 8,000 1,749 22 67 First American Financial 7,585 NA NA 68 Applied Magnetics Corp. 7,407 1,400 19 69 Potlatch Corp. 7,400 200 3 70 Union Bank 7,303 7,300 100 71 Western Digital Corp. 6,906 2,240 32 72 Beckman Instruments 6,879 4,000 58 73 GranCare Inc. 6,500 4,352 67 74 McClatchy Newspapers 6,433 4,357 68 75 Chart House Enterprises 6,000 1,793 30 76 ICN Pharmaceuticals 5,987 376 6 77 SPI Pharmaceuticals 5,987 359 6 78 Clorox Co. 5,800 1,800 31 79 Rykoff-Sexton Inc. 5,730 2,500 44 80 MacFrugal’s Barg/Close-Outs 5,700 NA NA 81 Allergan Inc. 5,600 1,609 29 82 GTI Corp. 5,500 225 4 83 Jenny Craig 5,370 1,736 32 84 Jacobs Engineering Group 5,357 911 17 85 San Diego Gas & Electric 5,103 5,103 100 86 American President Cos. 5,100 1,300 25 87 Summit Health Ltd. 5,050 NA NA 88 Gottschalks Inc. 4,900 4,300 88 89 Bergen Brunswig Corp. 4,500 1,400 31 90 Charles Schwab Co. 4,500 2,500 56 91 Williams-Sonoma Inc. 4,500 1,292 29 92 Homedco Group 4,400 646 15 93 AST Research Inc. 4,300 1,800 42 94 LSI Logic Corp. 4,204 2,500 59 95 National Education 4,200 723 17 96 ClothesTime Inc. 4,100 2,233 54 97 Golden West Financial 4,019 2,813 70 98 Applied Materials 3,909 NA NA 99 International Technology 3,865 564 15 100 Foundation Health Corp. 3,800 3,700 97
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