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The 100 Largest Companies In Minnesota For 2024

By Chris Kolmar
Mar. 19, 2024

If you live in Minnesota and you’re looking for a job, you have come to the right place.

Because, sure, you can google things like ‘biggest companies in Minnesota’ and get a fairly long list of companies with a lot of employees, or perhaps that have the biggest names — but here, we bring you the companies with the most current employees that are actually headquartered in Minnesota.

Below, we’ll give you a complete list of Minnesota’s 100 largest companies, but first, here’s a look at the top 10:

  1. Aeon (Jobs)

  2. Target (Jobs)

  3. Siemens (Jobs)

  4. UnitedHealth Group (Jobs)

  5. ACS Group (Jobs)

  6. Cargill (Jobs)

  7. Medtronic (Jobs)

  8. Best Buy (Jobs)

  9. Carlson Companies (Jobs)

  10. 3M Company (Jobs)

Aeon comes in at the top, with more current employees than any other company in the state. We’ll get to specifics in a moment; first, here’s a look at our methodology.

How we identified the biggest companies in Minnesota

Here at Zippia we have developed a database of over 250,000 companies that spans the entire country.

For this report, we looked at the companies headquartered in Minnesota with at least 100 employees. That left us with 1,848 companies.

We then ranked each company from most to least current employees to determine the biggest companies in Minnesota.

As it turns out, Aeon looks to the be the biggest company in Minnesota clocking in with 500,001 employees.

Now, check out how the 100 biggest companies in Minnesota ranked.

Detailed List Of The 100 Biggest Companies In Minnesota

Rank Company City Employees Jobs
1 Aeon Minneapolis 500,001 Jobs
2 Target Minneapolis 409,000 Jobs
3 Siemens Saint Paul 303,000 Jobs
4 UnitedHealth Group Minnetonka 300,000 Jobs
5 ACS Group Saint Paul 210,345 Jobs
6 Cargill Wayzata 166,000 Jobs
7 Medtronic Minneapolis 104,950 Jobs
8 Best Buy Richfield 102,000 Jobs
9 Carlson Companies Minnetonka 100,000 Jobs
10 3M Company Saint Paul 94,987 Jobs
11 Lucas Minneapolis 92,000 Jobs
12 Kindred Escrow Corp Minneapolis 76,000 Jobs
13 U.S. Bank Minneapolis 70,000 Jobs
14 Mayo Clinic Rochester 63,000 Jobs
15 UTC Fire & Security Americas Corporation, Inc. Arden Hills 54,998 Jobs
16 Ecolab Saint Paul 50,000 Jobs
17 Buffalo Wild Wings Minneapolis 44,000 Jobs
18 Fairview Health Services Minneapolis 39,500 Jobs
19 General Mills Minneapolis 35,000 Jobs
20 The Marsh Minnetonka 30,300 Jobs
21 General Mills Convenience & Foodservice Golden Valley 30,000 Jobs
22 Angie’s Artisan Treats North Mankato 30,000 Jobs
23 nVent HOFFMAN Anoka 30,000 Jobs
24 Allina Health Minneapolis 29,000 Jobs
25 HealthPartners Bloomington 26,000 Jobs
26 University of Minnesota Minneapolis 25,490 Jobs
27 Automation Minneapolis 24,500 Jobs
28 Maple Leaf Services Preston 24,000 Jobs
29 Federated Co-ops Princeton 23,000 Jobs
30 LTF Holdings, Inc. Chanhassen 22,500 Jobs
31 Fastenal Winona 20,565 Jobs
32 posti Group Finland 20,316 Jobs
33 Hormel Foods Austin 20,000 Jobs
34 Encompass Hopkins 20,000 Jobs
35 Schwan’s Marshall 17,000 Jobs
36 McNeilus Dodge Center 16,000 Jobs
37 C.H. Robinson Eden Prairie 15,262 Jobs
38 Polaris Medina 15,000 Jobs
39 NCC Minneapolis 14,500 Jobs
40 IDeaS Revenue Solutions Minneapolis 13,939 Jobs
41 Donaldson Minneapolis 13,100 Jobs
42 The Mosaic Company Plymouth 13,000 Jobs
43 APi Group New Brighton 13,000 Jobs
44 Ameriprise Financial Minneapolis 12,300 Jobs
45 Taylor North Mankato 12,000 Jobs
46 Canadian Pacific Railway Minneapolis 11,904 Jobs
47 Valspar Minneapolis 11,083 Jobs
48 Xcel Energy Minneapolis 11,075 Jobs
49 The Schwan Food Company Marshall 11,000 Jobs
50 Essentia Health Duluth 10,852 Jobs
51 Anytime Fitness Hastings 10,767 Jobs
52 Toro Bloomington 10,300 Jobs
53 Global Goodwill Ambassadors Burnsville 10,001 Jobs
54 Thermo King Minneapolis 10,001 Jobs
55 Land O’Lakes Arden Hills 10,000 Jobs
56 Andersen Bayport 10,000 Jobs
57 TCF Financial Wayzata 10,000 Jobs
58 St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co Saint Paul 10,000 Jobs
59 Thomson Financial Saint Paul 10,000 Jobs
60 CHS Inver Grove Heights 9,941 Jobs
61 Foundation Holdings, Inc. Minneapolis 9,587 Jobs
62 Pentair Minneapolis 9,500 Jobs
63 ADC Telecommunications Eden Prairie 9,300 Jobs
64 Tlb Holdings Llc Plymouth 8,900 Jobs
65 G&K Services Minnetonka 7,800 Jobs
66 Examiner.com Saint Paul 7,501 Jobs
67 School Annual Publishing Minneapolis 7,500 Jobs
68 Christopher and Banks Plymouth 7,500 Jobs
69 Fourteen Foods Eden Prairie 7,500 Jobs
70 Patterson Companies Saint Paul 7,500 Jobs
71 Old Republic Title Minneapolis 7,500 Jobs
72 Coborn’s Saint Cloud 7,463 Jobs
73 Caribou Coffee Brooklyn Center 7,000 Jobs
74 Argenbright Inc Rockford 7,000 Jobs
75 SMDC Health System Duluth 7,000 Jobs
76 Hennepin Healthcare Minneapolis 7,000 Jobs
77 Fast Glass Saint Paul 7,000 Jobs
78 Musicland Purchasing Corp Minnetonka 7,000 Jobs
79 Deluxe Shoreview 6,500 Jobs
80 H.B. Fuller Saint Paul 6,428 Jobs
81 CliftonLarsonAllen Minneapolis 6,100 Jobs
82 Hempel Real Estate Minneapolis 6,100 Jobs
83 AmeriPride Services Minnetonka 6,025 Jobs
84 United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company Saint Paul 6,000 Jobs
85 Minneapolis Public Schools Minneapolis 6,000 Jobs
86 Holiday Stationstores Bloomington 6,000 Jobs
87 Musicland Minnetonka 6,000 Jobs
88 S M D C St Mary’s Duluth Clinic Health System Hospice & Palliative Care Duluth 6,000 Jobs
89 Starkey Hearing Technologies Eden Prairie 6,000 Jobs
90 Ceridian Minneapolis 5,974 Jobs
91 Vista Outdoor Anoka 5,800 Jobs
92 Sleep Number Minneapolis 5,515 Jobs
93 Cardinal Glass Industries Eden Prairie 5,500 Jobs
94 Saint Paul Public Schools Saint Paul 5,376 Jobs
95 City Of Alexandria Alexandria 5,082 Jobs
96 Jennie-O Willmar 5,000 Jobs
97 Eddington’s Soup and Salad Minneapolis 5,000 Jobs
98 Endeavor Air Minneapolis 5,000 Jobs
99 Pentair – Hoffman Anoka 4,999 Jobs
100 Jostens Minneapolis 4,922 Jobs

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Author

Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar is a co-founder of Zippia and the editor-in-chief of the Zippia career advice blog. He has hired over 50 people in his career, been hired five times, and wants to help you land your next job. His research has been featured on the New York Times, Thrillist, VOX, The Atlantic, and a host of local news. More recently, he's been quoted on USA Today, BusinessInsider, and CNBC.

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