This is a list of United States–based companies having the most

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globally. For some companies listed, the majority of total employees live and work in other countries. Employees are mixed and composed of various

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such as the

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, and the

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. Additional classifications include the Agricultural (or primary) sector, Industrial (or secondary) sector, Service (or tertiary) sector, Information (or quaternary) sector, and Human (or quinary) sector.

Employment by company

Employment by major industry sector

According to research from the

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(more specifically, provided by the

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), health care has now surpassed both manufacturing and retail as the engine for

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growth in the coming decades. There were approximately 16 million people employed in the health care sector in 2017.

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