If you live in Washington and you’re looking for a job, you have come to the right place.
Because, sure, you can google things like ‘biggest companies in Washington’ 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 Washington.
Below, we’ll give you a complete list of Washington’s 100 largest companies, but first, here’s a look at the top 10:
Amazon 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 Washington
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 Washington with at least 100 employees. That left us with 1,707 companies.
We then ranked each company from most to least current employees to determine the biggest companies in Washington.
As it turns out, Amazon looks to the be the biggest company in Washington clocking in with 1,608,000 employees.
Now, check out how the 100 biggest companies in Washington ranked.
Detailed List Of The 100 Biggest Companies In Washington
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.
