I don't know about private. But the largest employer in the world is the US Department of Defense employing an estimated 2.8 million people which is about trip

I don't know about private. But the largest employer in the world is the US Department of Defense employing an estimated 2.8 million people which is about triple what Amazon employs. WalMart has about 2.2 million world wide of which 1.5 million are US employees. Amazon, according to the article, has about 950,000 employees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Defense https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_De... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart