Page 225 - 2018 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report - City of Winston-Salem

City of Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Principal Employers

Current Year and Ten Years Ago Table 20

2018 2009
Percentage Percentage
of Total City of Total City
Employer Employees Rank Employment (1) Employees Rank Employment (1)

Wake Forest Baptist Health 14,271 1 5.87% 11,763 1 5.44%
Novant Health, Inc. 9,896 2 4.07 8,249 2 3.81
Winston-Salem /Forsyth County School System 8,000 3 3.29 7,550 3 3.49
Wells Fargo/Wachovia 2,890 4 1.19 3,400 5 1.57
Reynolds American, Inc. 2,500 5 1.03 2,939 6 1.36
Hanesbrands, Inc. 2,300 6 0.95 3,560 4 1.65
Wake Forest University 2,251 7 0.93 2,435 7 1.13
City of Winston-Salem 2,287 8 0.94 2,343 8 1.08
Forsyth County 2,118 9 0.87 2,140 9 0.99
BB&T 2,134 10 0.88 1,437 10 0.66
Total 48,647 20.02 45,816 21.18%

Source:
Winston-Salem Chamber
(1) Population data can be found in Table 19.

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