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The 100 Largest Companies In North Carolina For 2024

By Chris Kolmar
Mar. 19, 2024

If you live in North Carolina and you’re looking for a job, you have come to the right place.

Because, sure, you can google things like ‘biggest companies in North Carolina’ and get a fairly long list of companies with a lot of employees, or perhaps that have the biggest names — but here, we bring you the companies with the most current employees that are actually headquartered in North Carolina.

Below, we’ll give you a complete list of North Carolina’s 100 largest companies, but first, here’s a look at the top 10:

  1. Compass Group USA (Jobs)

  2. Lowe’s Companies (Jobs)

  3. Banc of America Mortgage Capital Corporation (Jobs)

  4. Bank of America (Jobs)

  5. Home Credit (Jobs)

  6. Delhaize America (Jobs)

  7. Total (Jobs)

  8. Honeywell (Jobs)

  9. Food Lion (Jobs)

  10. Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (Jobs)

Compass Group USA comes in at the top, with more current employees than any other company in the state. We’ll get to specifics in a moment; first, here’s a look at our methodology.

How we identified the biggest companies in North Carolina

Here at Zippia we have developed a database of over 250,000 companies that spans the entire country.

For this report, we looked at the companies headquartered in North Carolina with at least 100 employees. That left us with 1,954 companies.

We then ranked each company from most to least current employees to determine the biggest companies in North Carolina.

As it turns out, Compass Group USA looks to the be the biggest company in North Carolina clocking in with 478,070 employees.

Now, check out how the 100 biggest companies in North Carolina ranked.

Detailed List Of The 100 Biggest Companies In North Carolina

Rank Company City Employees Jobs
1 Compass Group USA Charlotte 478,070 Jobs
2 Lowe’s Companies Mooresville 300,000 Jobs
3 Banc of America Mortgage Capital Corporation Charlotte 204,489 Jobs
4 Bank of America Charlotte 200,000 Jobs
5 Home Credit Raleigh 116,700 Jobs
6 Delhaize America Salisbury 109,000 Jobs
7 Total Raleigh 104,000 Jobs
8 Honeywell Charlotte 103,000 Jobs
9 Food Lion Salisbury 88,001 Jobs
10 Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings Burlington 72,000 Jobs
11 Lenovo Morrisville 71,500 Jobs
12 Hanes Companies, Inc. Winston-Salem 67,200 Jobs
13 Hanesbrands Winston-Salem 61,000 Jobs
14 Family Dollar Matthews 60,000 Jobs
15 Electrolux Charlotte 55,400 Jobs
16 QuintilesIMS Durham 50,000 Jobs
17 VF Greensboro 50,000 Jobs
18 Gildan Eden 44,000 Jobs
19 BB&T Winston-Salem 37,000 Jobs
20 Harris Teeter Matthews 35,000 Jobs
21 Socius Health Solutions, LLC Raleigh 32,800 Jobs
22 Beverage-Air Winston-Salem 30,000 Jobs
23 CommScope Hickory 30,000 Jobs
24 Hospice Plus Mooresville 30,000 Jobs
25 Novant Health Winston-Salem 29,233 Jobs
26 Syngenta Greensboro 28,704 Jobs
27 Duke Energy Charlotte 27,535 Jobs
28 GKN Driveline Newton 27,500 Jobs
29 Nucor Charlotte 26,001 Jobs
30 Ingles Markets Black Mountain 26,000 Jobs
31 Belk Charlotte 25,000 Jobs
32 JELD-WEN Charlotte 23,300 Jobs
33 National Power Raleigh 22,650 Jobs
34 Pharmaceutical Product Development Wilmington 21,000 Jobs
35 The Elkin Tribune Elkin 20,000 Jobs
36 Ruddick Operating Co Charlotte 20,000 Jobs
37 Chiquita Brands International Charlotte 20,000 Jobs
38 Old Dominion Freight Line Thomasville 19,779 Jobs
39 Clariant Charlotte 17,901 Jobs
40 Sensus Raleigh 17,000 Jobs
41 PRA Health Sciences Raleigh 17,000 Jobs
42 Sealed Air Charlotte 16,500 Jobs
43 Dentsply Sirona Charlotte 16,000 Jobs
44 Alex Lee Hickory 16,000 Jobs
45 DataFlux Cary 15,000 Jobs
46 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill 14,280 Jobs
47 SAS Institute Cary 13,939 Jobs
48 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Charlotte 13,623 Jobs
49 Red Hat Raleigh 13,400 Jobs
50 Cook Out Thomasville 13,000 Jobs
51 The Fresh Market Greensboro 13,000 Jobs
52 Vidant Health Greenville 12,224 Jobs
53 Intelliweather Raleigh 11,060 Jobs
54 Progress Energy Raleigh 11,000 Jobs
55 Hanson Aggregates East Inc Morrisville 10,600 Jobs
56 Cato Fashions Charlotte 10,500 Jobs
57 Primo Water Winston-Salem 10,400 Jobs
58 Umicore Maxton 10,224 Jobs
59 Bridge Terminal Transport Charlotte 10,002 Jobs
60 Elior North America Charlotte 10,001 Jobs
61 Keller Williams Preferred Realty Durham 10,001 Jobs
62 North Carolina Department of Public Safety Raleigh 10,001 Jobs
63 Chartwells K12 Charlotte 10,001 Jobs
64 Community Home Care and Hospice Mooresville 10,001 Jobs
65 CentOS Project Raleigh 10,001 Jobs
66 Schneider Electric Industrial Services Greensboro 10,001 Jobs
67 Curo Health Services Mooresville 10,001 Jobs
68 Boddie-Noell Ent. Rocky Mount 10,001 Jobs
69 Advanced Energy Raleigh 10,000 Jobs
70 Driven Brands Charlotte 9,900 Jobs
71 Sonic Automotive Charlotte 9,750 Jobs
72 Ply Gem Holdings Cary 9,471 Jobs
73 ConvaTec Greensboro 9,400 Jobs
74 Curtiss-Wright Davidson 9,000 Jobs
75 Hatch Winston-Salem 9,000 Jobs
76 Debbie’s Staffing Winston-Salem 9,000 Jobs
77 Investors Management Raleigh 9,000 Jobs
78 Recipharm Morrisville 8,666 Jobs
79 Martin Marietta Raleigh 8,500 Jobs
80 Merchandising Solutions Group Inc Hays 8,300 Jobs
81 WakeMed Raleigh 8,001 Jobs
82 Rexam Charlotte 8,000 Jobs
83 DPx Fine Chemicals Durham 8,000 Jobs
84 Lowes Foods Winston-Salem 8,000 Jobs
85 Qorvo Greensboro 7,900 Jobs
86 Duke Management Company Durham 7,501 Jobs
87 Raleigh Regional Association of REALTORS Cary 7,500 Jobs
88 The InStore Group Pineville 7,500 Jobs
89 Key Services Inc Winston-Salem 7,500 Jobs
90 capefearvalley Fayetteville 7,500 Jobs
91 Bottom Dollar Food – Delhaize America Salisbury 7,500 Jobs
92 X-Culture Greensboro 7,500 Jobs
93 Coble Trench safety Greensboro 7,500 Jobs
94 Allegiance Security Group Morehead City 7,500 Jobs
95 Kayser-Roth Greensboro 7,500 Jobs
96 Bojangles Charlotte 7,500 Jobs
97 Accordius Health Charlotte 7,500 Jobs
98 AVINTIV Charlotte 7,500 Jobs
99 Hillco Kinston 7,500 Jobs
100 Ansible by Red Hat Durham 7,500 Jobs

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Author

Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar is a co-founder of Zippia and the editor-in-chief of the Zippia career advice blog. He has hired over 50 people in his career, been hired five times, and wants to help you land your next job. His research has been featured on the New York Times, Thrillist, VOX, The Atlantic, and a host of local news. More recently, he's been quoted on USA Today, BusinessInsider, and CNBC.

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