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Thread: Largest Area Employers
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07-08-2013, 12:38 PM #1
Largest Area Employers
Source: OKC Chamber of Commerce
April 2017
Company Name HQ # Employees Sector State of Oklahoma 45,600 Government Tinker Air Force Base 24,000 Military University of Oklahoma - Norman 12,700 Higher Education FAA Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center 7,000 Aerospace INTEGRIS Health ✓ 6,000 Health Care Hobby Lobby Stores Inc ✓ 5,100 Wholesale & Retail University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center 5,000 Higher Education City of Oklahoma City 4,700 Government Mercy Hospital ✓ 4,500 Health Care OGE Energy Corp ✓ 3,400 Utility OU Medical Center 3,200 Health Care SSM Health Care of Oklahoma, Inc. ✓ 3,000 Health Care University of Central Oklahoma 3,000 Higher Education Norman Regional Hospital 2,950 Health Care AT&T 2,700 Telecommunications The Boeing Company 2,600 Aerospace Devon Energy Corp ✓ 2,500 Oil & Gas Chesapeake Energy Corp ✓ 2,500 Oil & Gas Sonic Corp ✓ 2,460 Wholesale & Retail Oklahoma City Community College 2,100 Higher Education Dell 1,800 Sales & Business Services UPS 1,800 Transportation Hertz Corporation 1,700 Rental Services Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores ✓ 1,700 Retail American Fidelity ✓ 1,650 Finance/Insurance Cox Communications 1,400 Telecommunications Great Plains Coca-Cola Bottling Company 1,300 Beverage Distribution Farmers Insurance Group 1,300 Customer Service Midfirst Bank ✓ 1,150 Finance Bank of Oklahoma 1,100 Finance Dolese Bros. Co. ✓ 1,100 Manufacturing Continental Resources ✓ 1,000 Oil & Gas Deaconess Hospital ✓ 1,000 Health Care Rose State College 1,000 Higher Education
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07-08-2013, 02:31 PM #2
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Re: Largest Area Employers
Does the State of Oklahoma employment numbers mean OKC metro - or the entire state? Honestly, I don't believe it employs nearly as many as Tinker in the OKC metro.
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07-08-2013, 02:33 PM #3
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07-08-2013, 02:41 PM #4
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07-08-2013, 02:46 PM #5
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Re: Largest Area Employers
I bet the employment list goes off of full time employees.
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07-08-2013, 02:53 PM #6
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07-08-2013, 05:05 PM #7
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Re: Largest Area Employers
Moore Public Schools employs over 2300 people.
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07-08-2013, 07:47 PM #8
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Re: Largest Area Employers
Yeah there are some irregularities with this list..
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07-09-2013, 01:09 PM #10
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07-09-2013, 01:24 PM #11
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07-09-2013, 01:37 PM #12
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07-09-2013, 10:20 PM #13
Re: Largest Area Employers
I think that Boeing facility way over by Tinker is running something over 1,300-1,400 employees now? And growing, I think?
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07-12-2013, 08:01 AM #14
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You have to be careful when discussing walmart employment numbers. The 300 figure is used a lot by Walmart but that is only when they first open the store. After the store has been open people quit and they aren't replaced. A supercenter that has been open for a year only employs about 150 people.
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07-12-2013, 08:09 AM #15
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But even if they only employ 150 at the super centers, there are 11 (!) in the metro area, so that's well more than a thousand employees not even counting the neighborhood markets or Sam's Clubs.
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07-12-2013, 08:59 AM #16
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Maybe Walmart chooses not to report their numbers to whomever the source is for the list. Getting employment numbers can be hard because Walmart (and I am sure other companies) sell their 300 count as the basis for a lot of local incentives around the country. If it was widely spread that the real number was 1/2 that it could cause problems for them.
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Re: Largest Area Employers
Simply put, I don't think it looks good for a major metro to have Walmart as one of its top employers.
Also consider that the majority of Walmart employees are on public assistance because the corporation pays a national average of $8.81/hour (certainly lower in Oklahoma).
It's ugly.
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07-13-2013, 04:48 PM #18
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If they're going to include both full and part-time employees, the Oklahoma National Guard has over 10,000 statewide, about half that in the metro. Of that number, somewhere around 1500 or so full- time statewide.
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07-13-2013, 08:33 PM #19
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07-14-2013, 01:36 AM #20
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07-14-2013, 08:29 AM #21
Re: Largest Area Employers
It could very well be that the Chamber doesn't want to list Wal-Mart and simply leaves them off.
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04-26-2016, 06:51 AM #22
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The Chamber just released a new list of largest employers in the MSA.
I grouped them by category, which I think is quite interesting. You could easily move the FAA Monroney Center into the Government / Military category, which would make that category almost 50% of the employees among area employers of over 1,000 personnel.
Also demonstrates that at 3.9% Oil & Gas is a far lower percentage than most assume.
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04-26-2016, 06:57 AM #23
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Did they change the way they group State of Oklahoma and Tinker? I know Tinker has been expanding but that seems a bit too much growth for either of them over the last three years.
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