Top 50 Private-sector Employers

Top 50 Private-Sector* Employers (2010)
Rank
Company Name
 Employees
1
Northrop Grumman
           9,850
2
Walmart / Sam's Club
           7,153
3
Giant Food
           5,788
4
Constellation Energy/BGE
           4,619
5
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
           4,600
6
Verizon Wireless
           3,555
7
T. Rowe Price Group
           3,504
8
Southwest Airlines
           3,200
9
Lockheed Martin
           2,725
10
Target
           2,533
11
W.L. Gore & Associates
           2,302
12
Severstal North America
           2,300
13
CSC
           2,239
14
Booz Allen Hamilton
           2,190
15
Marriot International
           2,100
16
McCormick & Company
           2,014
17
SAIC
           1,760
18
McDonald's
           1,720
19
AAI
           1,700
20
BD Diagnostics
           1,600
21
The Columbia Association
           1,600
22
Home Depot
           1,540
23
Safeway
           1,475
24
Broadway Services
           1,200
25
CareFirst
           1,176
26
Rite Aid Mid-Atlantic Customer Support Center
           1,167
27
United Parcel Service (UPS)
           1,140
28
ARINC
           1,100
29
M&T Bank
           1,092
30
Stanley Black & Decker
           1,083
31
W.R. Grace & Co.
           1,045
32
H&S Bakery
             950
33
Allegis Group
             926
34
Under Armour
             900
35
Bank of America
             842
36
Wells Fargo Securities Administrative Services
             842
37
MICROS Systems
             815
38
Random House
             800
39
ShopRite
             800
40
Coastal Sunbelt Produce
             800
41
Weis Markets
             790
42
Jacobs Technology
             785
43
Arbitron
             767
44
Ascend One
             735
45
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream
             732
46
Sephora USA
             700
48
AT&T Services
             700
49
Maxim Healthcare Services
             675
50
Ciena
             649
Source: Compiled using regional county top employer lists from the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development
*Excludes government, hospitals, and education