On the Map: West Virginia’s Largest Employers by County

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By Amy Arnett

West Virginians have a reputation for being a hard-working population, but where do they work? At West Virginia Executive, we are always interested in learning more about business demographics in the state, and WorkForce West Virginia enables that curiosity by collecting data on our largest employers, including the largest employers per county.

We have put together a map that shows the largest private employer in each of our 55 counties. Our listing excludes state-run organizations like boards of education, which are the largest employers in 29 counties. We hope this map will provide an inside look at what is driving the counties’ business environments here in the Mountain State.

Barbour
Wolf Run Mining Company/Arch Coal, Inc.

Berkeley
Berkeley Medical Center

Boone
Elk Run Coal Company, Inc./Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.

Braxton
Central West Virginia Aging Service, Inc.

Brooke
Weirton Medical Center

Cabell
St. Mary’s Medical Center, Inc.

Calhoun
Minnie Hamilton Health System

Clay
Clay County Development Corporation

Doddridge
Blue Flame Pipeline, LLC

Fayette
Kingston Mining, Inc./Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.

Gilmer
Glenville State College

Grant
Grant Memorial Hospital

Greenbrier
Greenbrier Hotel Corporation

Hampshire
Hampshire Memorial Hospital/Valley Health System, Inc.

Hancock
Mountaineer Park, Inc.

Hardy
Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation of West Virginia

Harrison
United Hospital Center, Inc.

Jackson
Constellium Rolled Products Ravenswood

Jefferson
PNGI Charles Town Gaming

Kanawha
Charleston Area Medical Center, Inc.

Lewis
Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital

Lincoln
Lincoln County Opportunity Company

Logan
Logan General Hospital

Marion
Fairmont State University

Marshall
The Marshall County Coal Company/Murray Energy Corporation

Mason
Pleasant Valley Hospital, Inc.

McDowell
XMV, Inc./ArcelorMittal

Mercer
Princeton Community Hospital Association

Mineral
Alliant Techsystems, Inc.

Mingo
Mingo Logan Coal Company/Arch Coal, Inc.

Monongalia
West Virginia University Hospitals

Monroe
UTC Aerospace Systems

Morgan
War Memorial Hospital/Valley Health System, Inc.

Nicholas
Summersville Regional Medical Center

Ohio
Wheeling Hospital, Inc.

Pendleton
Pendleton Manor, Inc.

Pleasants
First Energy Generation Corporation

Pocahontas
Snowshoe Mountain, Inc.

Preston
Preston Memorial Hospital

Putnam
Toyota Motor Manufacturing, West Virginia, Inc.

Raleigh
Raleigh General Hospital

Randolph
Davis Medical Center

Ritchie
Simonton Building Products, Inc.

Roane
Roane General Hospital

Summers
Appalachian Regional Healthcare

Taylor
ICG Tygart Valley, LLC/Arch Coal, Inc.

Tucker
Canaan Valley Resort

Tyler
Momentive Performance Materials USA

Upshur
St. Joseph’s Hospital of Buckhannon

Wayne
Rockspring Development, Inc./Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.

Webster
Brooks Run Mining Company, LLC/Alpha Natural Resources, Inc.

Wetzel
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Wirt
Maze Enterprises, Inc.

Wood
Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital

Wyoming
Pinnacle Mining Company, LLC/Cliffs Natural Resources Inc.

Source: WorkForce West Virginia

19 Comments

  1. It’s really sad that most of the jobs in our state are from the medical profession. We need a lot more manufacturing jobs and jobs that can make a good living wage for families.

  2. Lincoln County’s largest employeer is Lincoln County Board of Education. I don’t see any BOE’s listed. Did this disclude all BOE’s?

  3. I think the leader in Marshall county is Williams Partners now, the gas plants and all the wells have most leaving the mining industry and going to work in the gas industry

  4. Hi, all. This is Jenn with WVE. If you look at the intro for this piece, it says (second paragraph) “Our listing excludes state-run organizations like boards of education, which are the largest employers in 29 counties.” This list of largest employers was provided to us by WorkForce West Virginia and, according to them, is the most recent information they have on the largest employers per county. If you have further questions about the list WorkForce West Virginia provided for this piece, you can contact them directly. Thanks!

    • I was going through the comments and getting frustrated that everyone was asking something answered in the article. Glad you cleared that up.

  5. The purpose of journalism is to transfer knowledge. This chart and map falls quite short of that goal. List each county and the top 3 or 4 employers regardless of being public or private. That would be the rest of the story.

  6. Yes without all the information presented one gets a biased view. The question now is, who would benefit from this biased view? Big coal, that’s who. Now info is printed that shows coal to be the number one employer in several counties, and wouldn’t it be awful if it all went away? See how it would really damage all of these counties? Etc etc. yes it would be hard for those employed by coal companies to lose their jobs, as it would for ANYONE to lose their job, but to then provide information that might link that loss to the economic development of an entire county is just poor journalism.

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