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East Bay Largest Employers

Ranked by number of East Bay Employees, as published December 29, 2006 in the East Bay Business Times Book of Lists

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Rank Last Year Name City No. of Employees Website url
1 Kaiser Permanente Oakland 25,070 www.kaiserpermante.org
2 University of California Oakland 22,753 www.universityofcalifornia.edu   
3 State of California Sacramento 13,661 www.ca.gov
4 Safeway Inc. Pleasanton 10,000 www.safeway.com
5 Alameda County Oakland 8,925 www.acgov.org
6 United States Postal Service Oakland 8,472 www.usps.com
7 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Pleasanton 7,984 www.llnl.gov
8 John Muir Health Walnut Creek 5,698 www.johnmuirhealth.com
9 New United Motor Manufacturing Livermore 5,500 www.nummi.com
10 Contra Costa County Martinez 5,430 www.co.contra-costa.ca.us
11 Wells Fargo & Co. San Francisco 5,308 www.wellsfargo.com
12 Alta Bates Summit Medical Center Berkeley 5,000 www.altabatessummit.org
13 City of Oakland Oakland 4,157 www.oaklandnet.com
14 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley 3,700 www.lbl.gov
15 Bay Area Rapid Transit Oakland 3,581 www.bart.gov
16 Oracle Inc. Pleasanton 3,500 www.oracle.com
17 Mervyn's LLC Hayward 3,459 www.mervyns.com
18 Mount Diablo Unified School District Concord 3,385 www.mdusd.k12.ca.us
19 Pacific Gas & Electric Co. San Francisco 3,206 www.pge.com
20 Chevron Corp. San Ramon 3,000 www.chevrontexaco.com
20 Sybase Inc. Dublin 3,000 www.sybase.com
22 Fremont Unified School District Fremont 2,922 www.fremont.k12.ca.us
23 San Ramon Valley Unified School District San Ramon 2,280 www.srvusd.net
24 Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics Emeryville 2,200 www.novartis.com
25 Southwest Airlines Co. Oakland 2,200 www.southwest.com