Delaware’s top 10 largest employers. See who made the list and who fell off.

Though the highest of the listing has modified, a lot has stayed the identical on the listing of Delaware’s high employers over the previous twenty years.

Seven employers that have been featured on The Information Journal’s listing of Delaware’s high employers in 2002 discovered a spot in 2022 led each occasions by the state of Delaware. The biggest relative newcomer is Amazon, which has about 7,500 Delaware staff.

A notable omission from the listing is DuPont, which at one level had greater than 25,000 staff within the First State. The chemical substances and electronics firm at the moment has 2,700 Delaware staff.

Different corporations on the surface of the highest 10 trying in embrace Bayhealth, Nemours Kids’s Well being, W.L. Gore and Associates, Perdue Farms, Beebe Healthcare and AstraZeneca.

The state’s Division of Labor does not share employment tallies of personal employers. The workforce figures listed beneath have been supplied by firm representatives, have been accessible publicly or have been reported beforehand by media shops. They embrace full- and part-time staff.

10. Walmart (4,400)

Walmart operates six supercenter shops, three low cost shops and one Sam’s Membership in Delaware. It additionally has a distribution middle in Smyrna.

9. College of Delaware (4,746)

UD’s whole enrollment is 23,613, together with 18,618 undergraduate college students.

8. Mountaire Farms (5,032)

In response to the Delmarva Hen Affiliation, 567 million chickens have been raised in Delaware final 12 months. About half of Mountaire’s U.S. workforce is in Delaware.

7. Federal authorities (5,800)

U.S. authorities staff in Delaware work in a wide range of roles, from agriculture to veterans affairs.

6. Financial institution of America (6,000)

MBNA introduced it was being acquired by Financial institution of America in 2005. For a number of years, MBNA had greater than 10,000 Delaware staff.

5. Dover Air Drive Base (6,156)

Along with getting ready and deploying airmen, one of many base’s main missions is receiving and honoring service members killed abroad. Greater than 1,000 civilians work at Dover Air Drive Base.

4. Amazon (7,500)

The e-commerce large is one in all Delaware’s fastest-growing employers. With the opening of enormous warehouses on the former Common Motors website close to Newport and the previous Blue Diamond Park close to New Fortress, Amazon has greater than doubled its Delaware presence within the final 12 months. A report in January discovered Delaware has essentially the most Amazon warehouse house per capita of the 50 states.

3. JPMorgan Chase (11,000)

JPMorgan Chase has a number of properties within the First State, headlined by its Delaware Expertise Middle workplace complicated off Harmony Pike in Fairfax. Within the final seven years, JPMorgan Chase has added round 4,000 Delaware staff.

2. ChristianaCare (11,612)

ChristianaCare has been the most important personal employer in Delaware for greater than a decade. The corporate in August ended talks to increase within the Philadelphia area with the acquisition of Crozer Well being.

1. State of Delaware (31,400)

The state handed DuPont in 1999 to change into Delaware’s largest employer, based on Information Journal archives.

Contact Brandon Holveck at bholveck@delawareonline.com. Observe him on Twitter @holveck_brandon.