Top 50 employers

Rank	Company	Employees worldwide
1	Raytheon Co.	87,200
2	TJX Cos.	77,000
3	FleetBoston Financial Corp.	56,000
4	Staples Inc.	53,918
5	Gillette Co.	31,500
6	EMC Corp.	20,100
7	State Street Corp.	19,753
8	Friendly Ice Cream Corp.	15,000
9	BJ's Wholesale Club Inc.	14,700
10	Boston Scientific Corp.	14,400
11	Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc.	13,300
12	Thermo Electron Corp.	12,000
13	Iron Mountain Inc.	11,300
14	Talbots Inc.	11,100
15	PerkinElmer Inc.	10,800
16	Analog Devices Inc.	9,000
17	SLI Inc.	8,433
18	Teradyne Inc.	8,400
19	John Hancock Financial Services Inc.	8,355
20	Keane Inc.	7,871
21	Unifirst Corp.	7,500
22	Reebok International Ltd.	6,700
23	Allmerica Financial Corp.	5,600
24	Manufacturers Services Ltd.	5,052
25	Parexel International Corp.	4,640
26	Parametric Technology Corp.	4,533
27	Genuity Inc.	4,400
28	Cabot Corp.	4,300
29	Millipore Corp.	4,160
30	Charles River Laboratories International Inc.	4,000
31	Watts Industries Inc. (class A)	3,899
32	New England Business Service Inc.	3,819
33	Tweeter Home Entertainment Group	3,776
34	CMGI Inc.	3,584
35	Waters Corp.	3,500
36	Perini Corp.	3,400
37	Nstar	3,291
38	American Tower Corp.	3,200
39	Mestek Inc.	3,135
40	DeWolfe Cos.	3,093
41	Yankee Candle Inc.	3,000
42	American Biltrite Inc.	2,850
43	Steinway Musical Instruments Inc.	2,847
44	Quaker Fabric Corp.	2,751
45	L.S. Starrett Co. (class A)	2,713
46	Investors Financial Services Corp.	2,618
47	Sapient Corp.	2,427
48	Stride Rite Corp.	2,400
49	Ionics Inc.	2,100
50	Kronos Inc.	2,009
Data compiled by Compustat.