Doing Business
Top Employers
Key industries and top employers in Yakima County, Washington
Key Industries
Yakima County’s assets are particularly well suited for key industries like food processing, warehouse/distribution, industrial machinery and supplies, aerospace, back office and health care industries.
Regional Cluster
Top Assets
Top Companies
- Efficient market access
- Extensive transportation infrastructure
- No inventory tax
- Walmart
- Ace Hardware
- Horizon Distribution
- R.E. Powell
- Quality Transportation
- H.R. Spinner
- 12th largest agriculture production area in the nation
- 39 commodities plus established suppliers/support services
- U.S. and International market access
- Smuckers
- Seneca Foods
- Del-Monte
- Tree Top
- AB Foods/Washington Beef
- Innovative packaging and sorting machine manufacturers
- Various industrial suppliers (metals, plastics, etc.)
- Low cost electric power
- Shields – Novolex
- Irwin Research and
- Development
- Kwik Lok
- Marq Packaging
- Sims Manufacturing
Business and Professional Services
- Available high energy workforce
- Available sites and buildings
- Extensive telecom infrastructure
- Costco
- Med Assets
- Wilkinson Corporation
- New medical university
- Award winning hospitals and specialized treatment centers
- Center of Excellence for healthcare training
- Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences
- Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic
- Surgimark
- Four regional hospitals
- Highly skilled workforce
- Two technical schools
- Proximity to international aerospace cluster
- Triumph Actuation Systems
- CubCrafters
- Pexco
Top Employers (Private)
Yakima County
Company | Employees | Website URL |
|---|---|---|
Washington Fruit & Produce | 3800 | www.washfruit.com |
Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic | 2518 | www.yvfwc.com |
MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital | 2500 | http://www.multicare.org |
Borton Fruit | 2500 | www.bortonfruit.com |
Walmart – Yakima/Sunnyside/Grandview | 1950 | www.walmart.com |
Zirkle Fruit | 1500 | www.zirklecommunity.com |
Monson Fruit | 1437 | www.monsonfruit.com |
Allan Bros., INC. | 1300 | www.allanbrosfruit.com |
Yakama Nation Government Operations | 1289 | www.yakamanation-nsn.gov |
Astria Health-Yakima/Sunnyside/Toppenish | 1200 | www.astria.health |
Yakama Nation Enterprises-Utility/ C-Store/ Credit Enterprise/ Forest Products/ Legends Casino | 1170 | www.yakamanation-nsn.gov |
A.B. Foods / Washington Beef | 1050 | www.abfoodsusa.com |
Costco (Wholesale Retail/Customer Service Center) | 1050 | www.costco.com |
Comprehensive Healthcare | 710 | www.cwcmh.org |
Tree Top, Inc. | 700 | www.treetop.com |
Yakima Neighborhood Health | 539 | www.ynhs.org |
Novolex-Shields | 500 | www.shieldsbag.com |
ACE Hardware Distribution Center | 480 | www.acehardware.com |
Catholic Family Services | 450 | www.cfcsyakima.org |
Community Health of Central Washington | 398 | www.chcw.org |
The Dolsen Companies | 350 | www.dolsencoke.com |
Seneca Foods | 330 | www.senecafoods.com |
John I. Haas | 315 | www.johnihaas.com |
McDonald’s of Yakima | 304 | www.mcdonalds.com |
Matson Fruit | 300 | www.matsonfruit.net |
Yakima Chief Hops | 270 | www.yakimachief.com |
Top Employers (Public)
Yakima County
Company | Employees | Website URL |
|---|---|---|
Yakima School District, No. 7 | 1594 | www.yakimaschools.org |
Yakima County | 970 | www.yakimacounty.us |
WA Dept. of Social/Health Services | 920 | www.dshs.wa.gov |
Sunnyside School District | 900 | www.sunnysideschools.org |
City of Yakima | 800 | www.yakimawa.gov |
WA State Dept. of Transportation | 541 | www.wsdot.wa.gov/regions/southcentral/ |
Toppenish School District | 540 | www.toppenish.wednet.edu |
Wapato School District | 520 | www.wapatosd.org |
Selah School District | 499 | www.selah.k12.wa.us |
Yakima Training Center | 491 | www.lewis-mcchord.army.mil/yakima/ |
Yakima Valley College | 450 | www.yvcc.edu |
Grandview School District | 350 | www.gsd200.org |
West Valley School District #208 | 330 | www.wvsd208.org |
Educational Service District 105 | 280 | www.esd105.org |
East Valley School District | 264 | www.evsd90.org |