There are currently over 22 million people who worked for the US government. This including federal, state, and local (but excludes military). Here is a list of companies whose combined employee count reaches just over 10 million - less than half of this number.

Walmart

Amazon

Home Depot

Target

Kroger

Berkshire Hathaway

FedEx

JPMorgan Chase

IBM

Wells Fargo

Microsoft

CVS Health

Bank of America

Walgreens Boots Alliance

Comcast

Raytheon Technologies

General Electric

General Motors

Oracle

Apple

Boeing

AT&T

Johnson & Johnson

Tesla

Intel

Lockheed Martin

Verizon

Procter & Gamble

General Dynamics

Northrop Grumman

Pfizer

Coca-Cola

American Express

Merck

HP

Goldman Sachs

McKesson

Chevron

Uber

Netflix

eBay

Airbnb

Lyft

Morgan Stanley

Sources:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/204535/number-of-governmental-employees-in-the-us/

https://companiesmarketcap.com/largest-companies-by-number-of-employees/

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Not going to lie, more shocked google wasn’t on the list of companies.

I had ChatGPT filter out foreign companies from the list and it looks like instead it created a whitelist that included Google instead of Alphabet. The numbers are still correct but it likely left out some other well-known companies.