OK Largest Employers 2023

[Pete]

This was just released -- for the entire state, not just the OKC area.

Looks like they broke out all the state agencies, otherwise the state government would be high on this list.

Oneok looks like the only energy company on this list apart from Phillips 66 but that has to be mostly gas stations.

[Jake]

I knew Paycom had a lot of employees but holy moly.

[Bits_Of_Real_Panther]

Lowes with about double home depot, hmm

[Pete]

I knew Paycom had a lot of employees but holy moly.

More than doubled the # of employees in the last four years.

[Jake]

More than doubled the # of employees in the last four years.

Wow! Good for them. Gonna need another building for their campus soon.

Edit: Also, shout out to the tribes.

[Pete]

In the OKC area, the Chamber does not include Walmart and other retail operations so it's hard to get a sense of how many those companies actually employ in the metro area.

But excluding government it looks like these are the biggest:

Walmart
Amazon
Hobby Lobby
Integris
Paycom
Boeing (gov. contractor)
Midfirst
Crest
BancFirst

[Teo9969]

I knew Paycom had a lot of employees but holy moly.

It's already over 6,000 in OK and over 8,000 globally

[Teo9969]

In the OKC area, the Chamber does not include Walmart and other retail operations so it's hard to get a sense of how many those companies actually employ in the metro area.

But excluding government it looks like these are the biggest:

Walmart
Amazon
Hobby Lobby
Integris
Paycom
Boeing (gov. contractor)
Midfirst
Crest
BancFirst

I've gotta think Mathis and HSRG are up there too

[Pete]

Wow! Good for them. Gonna need another building for their campus soon.

Edit: Also, shout out to the tribes.

It's interesting to contrast Devon Energy with around 1,000 employees and two downtown buildings (one 50 floors and the other 27) with Paycom which has more than 4x the employees and a relatively low-key and low-slung campus.

This is why fast-growing companies -- like those in tech -- prefer office parks to skyscrapers. Far more flexibility and easier to plan rather than starting on a building years before it opens, and then realizing business issues have vastly changed in the interim.

For Devon, by the time they finished their first building, they realized it wasn't big enough, only to start on a 2nd and then everything changed, and in fact 1/3rd of their tower was empty.

[FighttheGoodFight]

When you bundle all of OU into one group that is way more massive than I thought.

[Pete]

When you bundle all of OU into one group that is way more massive than I thought.

It shows you the somewhat overlooked economic monster that is the OU Health Sciences Center.

Not only tons of jobs, but most of them are well-paid.

[BoulderSooner]

It shows you the somewhat overlooked economic monster that is the OU Health Sciences Center.

Not only tons of jobs, but most of them are well-paid.

pete is there an indication of what the * is for on the #1 DOD list (surprised that it dropped 14k in 2 years)

[Pete]

pete is there an indication of what the * is for on the #1 DOD list (surprised that it dropped 14k in 2 years)

From the release:

*Department of Defense 2023 military and civilian employee estimate includes Altus Air Force Base, Fort Sill in Lawton, McAlester Army Ammunition Plant, Tinker Air Force Base and Vance Air Force Base in Enid. The 2023 estimate does not include basic training personnel or some defense contractors. Previous years may have included them in the estimates.

[BoulderSooner]

Phillips 66 but that has to be mostly gas stations.

per this https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news...through%202023.

they still have1,400 employees in Bartlesville

https://www.phillips66.com/corporate-locations/

business ops center and a research center ..

[BoulderSooner]

From the release:

thank pete .. sounds like they used to include all on base personal .. .. which would make up that difference ..

[Zuplar]

In the OKC area, the Chamber does not include Walmart and other retail operations so it's hard to get a sense of how many those companies actually employ in the metro area.

But excluding government it looks like these are the biggest:

Walmart
Amazon
Hobby Lobby
Integris
Paycom
Boeing (gov. contractor)
Midfirst
Crest
BancFirst

I wish they'd do a couple more lists, and include one without government jobs (including tribe governments). I think it's interesting to look at the private sector growth separately for economic reasons.

[warreng88]

When you bundle all of OU into one group that is way more massive than I thought.

I was just about to post the same thing. If you added them all together on that, it would be #3. I remember a top employer state from years ago and the State of Oklahoma was #1, Tinker was #2 and OU was #3. Of course, that wasn't including nation wide retail.

[Lazio85]

In the OKC area, the Chamber does not include Walmart and other retail operations so it's hard to get a sense of how many those companies actually employ in the metro area.

But excluding government it looks like these are the biggest:

Walmart
Amazon
Hobby Lobby
Integris
Paycom
Boeing (gov. contractor)
Midfirst
Crest
BancFirst

You missed Express Employment Professionals at #32

[Bits_Of_Real_Panther]

M-D Building supplies, anyone know what their employee numbers are? I searched and found 750. Does that sound right?

Thought they might be bigger.

[pw405]

As an employee of the energy industry, I'm glad to see they are no longer dominating the lists. Good for economic diversity, as well as the fact I'm gaining years of XP that is rare, and has potential to be highly paid.

[Pete]

As an employee of the energy industry, I'm glad to see they are no longer dominating the lists. Good for economic diversity, as well as the fact I'm gaining years of XP that is rare, and has potential to be highly paid.

You just say that because you are still employed! haha

[bombermwc]

I'm not sure what the worth of the sheer count of employees is though. A lot of these companies have a ton of part-time workforce members. Those are not the same jobs as a full time position. And I would bet you money that some of these people are working at multiple jobs, maybe even multiples on the list. So, they are being counted twice.

We need people doing all the jobs or the economy fails. But I am missing what the benefit of this particular survey is, other than just to know what their employee census shows for a count.

[Richard at Remax]

Crazy that Chesapeake has literally disappeared

[Fingerguns]

M-D Building supplies, anyone know what their employee numbers are? I searched and found 750. Does that sound right?

Thought they might be bigger.

That sounds like their full employee count across all M-D companies in USA/Canada. OKC is probably 400 people. The rest are at companies they've acquired out-of-state.

[Bits_Of_Real_Panther]

That sounds like their full employee count across all M-D companies in USA/Canada. OKC is probably 400 people. The rest are at companies they've acquired out-of-state.

Thanks I didn't realize they had other locations, yeah so not that big then in okc