Top Private Employers

Service companies have added jobs, while many manufacturers have shrunk over the past two decades, as shown by these lists of top private employers.

1994

1. Sacred Heart 3,007

2. Kaiser Aluminum 2,551

3. Empire Health 2,179

4. Seafirst Bank 1,400

5. Key Tronic Corp. 1,039

6. Hewlett Packard Co. 900

7. WWP 900

8. Safeway Stores Inc. 876

9. Goodale & Barbieri 812

10. Albertson’s Inc. 800

1985

1. Kaiser Aluminum 2,307

2. Sacred Heart 2,016

3. Key Tronic Corp. 1,442

4. Deaconess 1,321

5. Hewlett Packard Co. 1,105

6. ISC Systems Corp. 1,029

7. WWP 997

8. Old National Bank 850

9. PNB (U.S. West) 795

10. Rosauers Stores 759

1974

1. Kaiser Aluminum 3,800

2. Sacred Heart 1,437

3. The Crescent 1,172

4. PNB 1,171

5. WWP 1,120

6. Deaconess 1,000

7. Cowles Publishing 765

8. Old National Bank 710

9. Nordstrom 554

10. Rosauers Stores 545

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