Top Massachusetts-based employers

Ranked by 2005 worldwide workforce.

Rank	Company	Employees
1	TJX Cos.	119,000
2	Raytheon Co.	79,900
3	Staples	68,533
4	EMC Corp.	26,500
5	State Street Corp.	20,965
6	Boston Scientific Corp.	19,800
7	BJ's Wholesale Club	19,600
8	Bright Horizons Family Soluti	18,000
9	Iron Mountain	15,800
10	Friendly Ice Cream Corp.	12,700
11	Five Star Quality Care	11,637
12	Talbots	11,600
13	Thermo Electron Corp.	11,500
14	Keane	9,586
15	UniFirst Corp.	9,200
16	Analog Devices	8,800
17	Charles River Laborator	8,400
18	Genzyme Corp.	8,200
19	PerkinElmer	8,000
20	Watts Water Technologies	7,300
21	Parexel International Corp.	5,140
22	Novell	5,066
23	Millipore Corp.	4,800
24	Waters Corp.	4,503
25	Cabot Corp.	4,400
26	Teradyne	4,400
27	Hanover Insurance Group	4,100
28	Yankee Candle Co.	4,100
29	Skyworks Solutions	4,000
30	Lionbridge Technologies	3,921
31	Perini Corp.	3,900
32	Clean Harbors	3,900
33	Parametric Technology Corp.	3,751
34	CMGI	3,728
35	J. Jill Group	3,400
36	Tweeter Home Entertainment Group	3,359
37	Biogen IDEC	3,340
38	Investors Financial Service	3,252
39	NStar	3,050
40	Sapient Corp.	3,017
41	Kronos	2,900
42	Stride Rite Corp.	2,800
43	Casual Male Retail Group	2,770
44	Avid Technology	2,613
45	Mestek	2,584
46	Steinway Musical Instruments	2,443
47	Inverness Medical Innovations	2,360
48	Circor International	2,300
49	MKS Instruments	2,270
50	L.S. Starrett Co.	2,219

SOURCE: Standard & Poor's Compustat