Largest area private-sector employers

Source: Dallas Business Journal Book of Lists 2006 company # of employees locally type of business American Airlines 22,077 Commercial airline Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 21,133 Retail Texas Health Resources 16,289 Health care Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company 15,900 Military aircraft design and production Baylor Health Care System 15,200 Health care Citigroup 15,000 Financial Services AT&T Inc. 13,729 Data, voice, networking and internet services Verizon Communications 12,500 Telecommunications Texas Instruments 10,600 Semiconductor manufacturing Albertsons 10,100 Retail grocery Brinker International 10,000 Restaurants HCA Healthcare 9,896 Health care JPMorgan Chase 8,800 Financial services J.C. Penney Company, Inc. 7,900 Retail Kroger Food Stores 7,600 Retail grocery Target Corporation 7,554 Retail Electronic Data Systems (EDS) 7,300 Information technology services Bank of America 7,000 Financial services Tom Thumb Food & Pharmacy (Safeway Inc.) 6,314 Retail grocery Southwest Airlines 5,543 Commercial airline Bell Helicopter Textron 5,301 Aircraft manufacturing Minyard Food Stores, Inc. 5,091 Retail grocery Blockbuster, Inc. 4,500 Retail video and games General Motors 4,030 Automotive manufacturer RadioShack Corp. 3,896 Electronics retailer Sprint 3,500 Communications products