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UPMC leads Pennsylvania among employers

PITTSBURGH — Not only is UPMC the largest employer in the Pittsburgh region, with more than 50,000 workers in southwestern Pennsylvania, it also is the largest nongovernmental employer in the state.

UPMC has about 91,000 global employees, including some in New York and Maryland, as well as its international operations, which include China, Ireland, Italy and Kazakhstan.

According to the most recent data from the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry, about 130,000 jobs in the state are designated as state-owned and about 98,000 are federal government employees. Nongovernmental employees had 5.93 million employees for a 2019 annual average.

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