Walmart had about 2.2 million employees in the fiscal year of 2019, the highest of all companies in the Forbes 500 global ranking. Walmart also led the ranking of companies by revenue in 2019, with a total revenue of about 524 billion U.S. dollars.
Walmart
Two of the largest companies in the world based on the number of people employed are Walmart Stores and China National Petroleum, providing jobs for 2.2 million and 1.38 million people, respectively, around the world.
Apart from the United States and the United Kingdom, Walmart employs the most number of people in Mexico and China, totaling 176,000 and 90,000, respectively. There are over 2,500 Walmart stores in Mexico, but only 438 stores in China. In the United States, there are 4,769 stores as of 2020, and some 3,571 of these stores are Walmart’s Supercenters . The company had a 611 ratio of CEO-to-worker compensation in 2012, indicating that for every U.S. dollar a normal employee received, the CEO earned 611 U.S. dollars. Walmart is one of the largest companies in the world, generating 523.96 billion U.S. dollars in 2019.
Leading 500 Fortune companies based on number of employees in 2019
companies ranked by revenues in the Forbes 500 global ranking
Supplementary notes
The figure shown is either a fiscal year-end or yearly average number, as published by the company. Where the breakdown between full- and part-time employees is supplied, a part-time employee is counted as one half of a full-time employee.
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