Best Places to Live/Microsoft

ARDELL on 07 19, 2006

Bellevue is #21 of the top 100 best (smaller) cities to live in around the Country . What’s up with the “Biggest Employers” section though? U-Dub #1 at 25,000, Microsoft not listed?

How many employees DOES Microsoft have working on the Eastside?

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4 Responses to “Best Places to Live/Microsoft”

Robbie

July 19, 2006 at 8:09 am

MS has over 30,000 employees in the Puget Sound area.

Source: Microsoft Visitor Center Information.

Of that amount, I’d suspect they probably have 25,000 in Redmond, 1,500 in Issaquah & 1,500 in Bellevue (educated guess).

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jcricket

July 19, 2006 at 2:32 pm

You can also see Microsoft’s “Fast Facts” web page for more info.

60,000+ total employees
40,000+ in the US
30,000+ in Puget Sound

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ARDELL

July 20, 2006 at 7:08 am

Seems odd that Money would completely miss Microsoft as an area employer. Thank you both for for the resources in you comments.

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robertgraysmith

July 20, 2006 at 8:37 pm

Let’s not forget that the Microsoft machine also drives a large number of jobs through their vendor (v-staff) and agency relationships (a-staff) in addition to all the blue badges (direct Microsoft employee). And we all thought it was big when I left at ~3500 employees.

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