Berlin’s Top 200 - The largest employers in Berlin

Berlin’s top 200 employers

The current survey by the Berliner Morgenpost among the largest employers in the city shows: Corporations are committing to Berlin, the locations of large companies in the capital are growing.

Berlin’s largest employer in 2022 comes from the transport sector: With over 25,000 employees, Deutsche Bahn is still in first place, followed by the Charité (over 21,500 employees), the Vivantes network for health (over 18,000 employees) and the BVG (over 15,800 employees). Rewe Markt GmbH takes 5th place with around 11,600 employees.

	Company name	Industry sector	Employees 2022
1	Deutsche Bahn (inkl. S-Bahn Berlin)	Transport/Logistics	25,103
2	Charité	Health	21,556
3	Vivantes-Netzwerk für Gesundheit	Health	18,090
4	Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG)	Traffic	15,830
5	Rewe Markt GmbH	Retail	11,600
6	Deutsche Post DHL	Logistics	11,500	⁽¹
7	Tesla	Automotive	10,000	⁽¹
	Edeka (inkl. Netto)	Retail	10,000	⁽¹
9	Mercedes-Benz	Automotive industry	9,990
10	Johannesstift Diakonie	Health	8,628

Complete List of Berlin’s top 200 employers in 2022

11	Zalando	Digital economy	8,000
12	Kauﬂand	Retail	6,600
13	Deutsche Telekom	Telecommunications	6,380
14	Berliner Stadtreinigungsbetriebe BSR	Waste management	6,350
15	Gegenbauer	Facility management	6,334
16	Helios Kliniken	Health	6,260
17	Axel Springer	Media	6,022
18	Deutsches Rotes Kreuz	Social issues	6,000
19	Deutsche Bank (including Deutsche Bank und Postbank)	Bank	5,500
20	Siemens	Electrical engineering	5,000
	Bayer	Pharmaceutical industry	5,000
22	Lidl	Retail	4,800
	Siemens Energy	Energy	4,800
24	Berliner Wasserbetriebe	Water supplier	4,770
	Alexianer	Health	4,770
26	Securitas Sicherheitsdienste	Security services	4,700
27	Wisag Facility Service Holding	Facility management	4,610
28	Volkswagen	Automotive industry	4,566
29	Klinikum Ernst von Bergmann	Health	3,945
30	Dussmann Group	Facility management, plant engineering, technical service, geriatric care, retail	3,800
31	Netto Marken-Discount	Retail	3,717
32	Amazon	Digital economy	3,600
33	Fiege Logistik (inkl. Joint Venture Berlin Last Mile)	Contract logistics	3,529
34	Deutsche Kreditbank	Bank	3,513
35	Berliner Sparkasse	Bank	3,492
36	Delivery Hero	Digital economy	3,413
37	Caritas	Social issues	3,250
38	Immanuel Albertinen Diakonie, Geschäftsstelle Berlin	Health and social services	3,231
	Stephanus-Stiftung	Health	3,231
40	Bundesdruckerei	IT	3,065
41	McDonald's	Systemgastronomie	3,050
42	Unionhilfswerk Unternehmensverbund	Social issues	3,038
43	Vattenfall	Energy supplier	2,900
44	EJF	Social issues	2,887
45	BASF	Chemistry	2,750
46	AOK Nordost	Health insurance	2,744
47	Allianz	Insurance	2,723
48	BMW	Automotive industry	2,700
49	KPMG	Auditing	2,586
50	Biotronik	Medical technology	2,500
	Alstom Transport Deutschland	Rail technology	2,500
	Ceva Logistics	Logistics	2,500
53	dm-drogerie Markt	Retail	2,447
54	Rolls-Royce Deutschland	Development, assembly and maintenance of aircraft engines	2,405
55	Mosaik Unternehmensverbund	Social issues	2,363
56	Aldi	Retail	2,350	⁽¹
57	3B Dienstleistungen Deutschland	Infrastructural building services	2,318
58	Renafan	Social issues	2,300
	Bosch	Electrical engineering	2,300
60	Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin	Health	2,294
61	Dirk Rossmann	Retail	2,285
62	Sana Kliniken Berlin-Brandenburg	Health	2,234
63	SAP	IT	2,215
64	GRG. Die Gebäudereiniger	Facility management	2,207
65	Lebenshilfe Berlin	Social issues, inclusion	2,184
66	Concentrix Global Services (vormals Convergys Global Services)	Callcenter	2,100
	AWO	Social issues	2,100
	Volkssolidarität Berlin	Social issues	2,100
	Oberlinhaus	Health, rehabilitation	2,100	⁽¹
70	Flughafen Berlin Brandenburg	Airport	2,029
71	Deutsche Lufthansa	Aviation	2,000
	Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof	Retail	2,000	⁽¹
73	Berliner Werkstätten für Menschen mit Behinderung BWB	Social issues	1,921
74	BT Berlin Transport	Transport	1,909
75	Alba	Waste management / Recycling	1,907
76	Ikea Deutschland	Retail	1,832
77	Berliner Volksbank	Bank	1,820
78	Piepenbrock Dienstleistungen	Facility management	1,820
79	Stromnetz Berlin	Energy	1,795
80	Gasag-Gruppe	Energy supplier	1,749
81	IAV	Automotive supplier	1,733
82	Stadler Deutschland	Rail technology	1,720
83	Freiberger Lebensmittel	Food production	1,716
84	Netto ApS & Co. KG	Retail	1,653
85	Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin	Health	1,600	⁽¹
86	ASML Berlin	Semiconductor industry	1,526
87	Fröbel Bildung und Erziehung	Daycare	1,520
88	H&M Hennes & Mauritz	Retail	1,517
89	Evangelisches Krankenhaus Königin Elisabeth Herzberge	Health	1,502
90	PricewaterhouseCoopers	Auditing	1,500
	Bauhaus	Retail	1,500
92	Bio Company	Retail	1,489
93	degewo	Real Estate	1,470
94	Steinecke's Heidebrot Backstube	Retail/Food	1,464
95	MediamarktSaturn Deutschland	Retail	1,450	⁽¹
96	Commerzbank	Bank	1,430
97	Accor	Hotel	1,400	⁽¹
98	Ernst & Young	Auditing	1,366
99	Diehl Metal Appilcations	Metallindustrie	1,331
100	Takeda Deutschland	Pharmaceutical industry	1,306
101	Auto1 Group	Digital economy	1,300
	Hello Fresh	Digital economy	1,300	⁽¹
103	HZB Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin f. Materialien und Energie	Research	1,278
104	Evangelisches Diakonissenhaus Berlin Teltow Lehnin	Health	1,250	⁽¹
105	PIN	Postal service provider	1,249
106	Randstad Deutschland	Human Resources	1,238
107	Vitanas Gruppe	Social issues	1,222
108	50Hertz	Energy industry	1,207
109	August Storck	Food	1,200
	Obi	Retail	1,200	⁽¹
111	Cornelsen Gruppe	Publishing	1,196
112	Orafol Europe	Graphic films, reﬂecting materials and industrial adhesive tapes	1,187
113	Max-Delbrück-Centrum	Research	1,177
114	KaDeWe Group	Retail	1,172
115	Autodoc	E-Commerce	1,113
116	BERLIN-CHEMIE	Pharmaceutical industry	1,111
117	Vonovia	Real Estate	1,099
118	B. Braun Melsungen	Medical technology	1,088
119	TÜV Rheinland	Technische Überwachung	1,081
120	Knorr-Bremse	Rail technology	1,075	⁽¹
121	Gesundheitswerk Bethel Berlin gemeinnützige GmbH	Health	1,070
122	Studierendenwerk Berlin	Service for students at Berlin universities	1,067
123	Spitzke Unternehmensgruppe	Rail infrastructure	1,045
124	Sanoﬁ-Aventis Deutschland	Pharmaceutical industry	1,035
125	Bär & Ollenroth	Sanitary engineering	1,031
126	Hornbach Baumarkt	Retail / Garden and hardware stores	1,028
127	Majorel Berlin GmbH	Callcenter	1,026
128	Pfeﬀerwerk Stadtkultur	Social issues	1,007
129	ICTS Protect Germany (vormals GSE Protect)	Security services	1,001
130	Idealo Internet	Digital economy	1,000
	Vodafone D2	Telecommunications	1,000	⁽¹
	N26	Digital economy	1,000	⁽¹
133	Howoge Wohnungsbaugesellschaft	Real Estate	993
134	Telefonica O2	Telecommunications	975
	Schindler Deutschland	Elevators	975
136	Sankt Gertrauden-Krankenhaus	Health	964
137	Ergo	Insurance	961
138	Coca-Cola	Food	955
139	MTU Maintenance Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH	Mechanical engineering	950
140	Mittelbrandenburgische Sparkasse	Bank	931
141	ASK Unternehmensgruppe	Security services	920
	BSH Hausgeräte	Electrical engineering	920
143	Höﬀner Möbel	Retail	870	⁽¹
	Otis	Elevators	870	⁽¹
145	Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg	Bank	869
146	METRO Deutschland GmbH	Wholesale	859
147	Barmer	Health insurance	857
148	AVM	IT	850
	Stölting Kleine Service Berlin	Facility management	850
150	Mister Spex	E-commerce	844
151	Evangelisches Werk für Diakonie und Entwicklung	Diakonie	818
152	Messe Berlin	Messe	814
153	Hellweg Die Proﬁ-Baumärkte	Retail	800
	Primark	Retail	800	⁽¹
	Here Deutschland	Technology	800	⁽¹
	GE Deutschland	Mechanical engineering	800	⁽¹
	Manpower Group	Human Resources	800	⁽¹
	easyJet	Aviation	800	⁽¹
159	Strabag	Construction	795
160	Spie	Technical services	790
161	DIN-Gruppe	Standardization and norming	789
162	Investitionsbank Berlin	Bank	782
163	P&G Manufacturing	Care products	780	⁽¹
	Klarna	Bank	780	⁽¹
165	Techniker Krankenkasse	Health insurance	779
166	Krankenhaus Waldfriede	Health	776
167	Mazars	Auditing	775
168	Bausch + Lomb / Dr. Mann Pharma	Pharmaceutical industry	770
169	Park-Klinik Weißensee	Health	766
170	Mytoys	Digital economy, E-commerce	765
171	Ströer	Media / Advertising / Publishing	760
172	Gewobag	Real Estate	755
	Foundever (vormals Sitel Germany)	Callcenter	755
174	regiocom Customer Care	Callcenter	752
175	Sodexo Deutschland	Facility management	750	⁽¹
	Dekra	Technical monitoring	750	⁽¹
	Parexel International	Pharmaceutical research	750	⁽¹
178	DAK Health	Health insurance	742
179	Denns BioMarkt	Retail	740
180	Lindner Esskultur	Retail	735
181	Telus International	Callcenter	726
182	BKK·VBU	Health insurance	708
183	KiK Textilien & Non-Food	Retail	704
184	Pﬁzer Pharma	Pharmaceutical industry	700
185	Immobilien Scout	Digital economy	695
186	Schloßpark-Klinik	Health	685
187	Riva Stahl	Steel industry	670	⁽¹
188	Harry-Brot	Retail	660
189	Toll Collect	Tolling systems	658
190	Menüpartner	Catering industry	650	⁽¹
	AMS Osram	Electrical engineering	650	⁽¹
192	G-Elit Präzisionswerkzeug	Machine tool building / tool production	630
193	Viessmann Werke Berlin	Heating engineering	628
194	Ebay	Digital economy	600
	Pﬂegewohnzentrum Kaulsdorf-Nord	Social issues	600
196	PSI	IT	595
197	Lelbach-Gruppe	Electrotechnical engineering / health care	560
198	Atotech Deutschland	Chemistry	554
199	Flink	E-commerce	550	⁽¹
200	Aristo-Gruppe	Pharmaceutical industry	540

¹ editorial estimate

Data collection: Journalist office Michael Gneuss

The figures are based on precise and rounded information provided by the companies, our own research and editorial estimates.

The numbers for permanent employees as of 12.31.2022 in Berlin and in the surrounding districts were requested.

(Source: Berliner Morgenpost, 07/2023)

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