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The Los Angeles Business Journal regularly puts out lists of firms and employers ranked by various measures. The latest issue contains a listing of public-sector employers in LA County ranked by employees. UCLA ranks as the fourth largest public-sector employer in the County, larger than the City of Los Angeles which comes in fifth. The Journal separates out such components of the City such as the airports and the Department of Water and Power. UCLA would be ranked fifth if you included those municipal departments as part of the City. Nonetheless, UCLA is a major local employer with a reported 48,743 employees. Also reported for UCLA are 47,500 students and a $9.2 billion budget.

By the way, the largest private-sector employer reported in LA County is Kaiser Permanente with 40,303 employees. So, UCLA as an employer is larger than the largest private-sector organization. (The second largest private employer in LA County is USC which has 22,735 employees.)

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