Massachusetts-based employers

Ranked by worldwide workforce in 2008.

Rank	Company	Employees
1	TJX Cos.	133,000
2	Staples	91,125
3	Raytheon Co.	72,800
4	EMC Corp.	42,100
5	Thermo Fisher Scientific	34,500
6	State Street Corp.	28,475
7	Boston Scientific Corp.	24,800
8	Five Star Quality Care	21,062
9	Iron Mountain	21,000
10	BJ's Wholesale Club	20,800
11	Stream Global Services	17,000
12	Talbots	12,100
13	UniFirst Corp.	11,000
14	Genzyme Corp.	11,000
15	Analog Devices	9,000
16	Charles River Laboratories International	9,000
17	Inverness Medical Innovations	8,300
18	Parexel International Corp.	8,050
19	PerkinElmer	7,900
20	Perini Corp.	7,100
21	Sapient Corp.	6,360
22	Watts Water Technologies	6,300
23	3Com Corp.	6,103
24	Nuance Communications	6,100
25	Millipore Corp.	5,900
26	Parametric Technology Corp.	5,087
27	Waters Corp.	5,033
28	Clean Harbors	4,804
29	ModusLink Global Solutions	4,700
30	Biogen IDEC	4,700
31	Lionbridge Technologies	4,500
32	Bruker Corp.	4,400
33	Cabot Corp.	4,300
34	Virtusa Corp.	4,265
35	Novell	4,000
36	Hanover Insurance Group	4,000
37	Hologic	3,933
38	Teradyne	3,800
39	Skyworks Solutions	3,300
40	NStar	3,250
41	Altra Holdings	3,164
42	Casual Male Retail Group	3,079
43	Circor International	2,700
44	MKS Instruments	2,631
45	American Dental Partners	2,531
46	OneBeacon Insurance Group Ltd.	2,500
47	Beacon Roofing Supply	2,464
48	Interactive Data Corp.	2,400
49	Sepracor	2,400
50	Avid Technology	2,350