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Major Employers
The Greater Mankato region, includes Blue Earth and Nicollet counties (the Mankato-North Mankato Metropolitan Statistical Area).
Calculating FTE: For our page, we report full-time equivalency. Part-time or seasonal employees are reported as a percentage of full-time work (i.e. seasonal employees who work half the year, or year-round employees who work half of a full-time schedule are both reported as .5 FTE)
| Business Name | Estimated number of FTE Employees as of 2022 |
| Taylor Corporation | 2,200 |
| Mayo Clinic Health System | 1,871 |
| Minnesota State University, Mankato | 1,600 |
| Mankato Clinic | 751 |
| Gustavus Adolphus College | 580 |
| Walmart Distribution Center | 545 |
| Blue Earth County | 475 |
| Kato Engineering; subsidiary of Nidec | 434 |
| Johnson Outdoors | 360 |
| E I Microcircuits | 300 |
| City of Mankato | 287 |
| Nicollet County | 277 |
| Creation Technologies | 275 |
| Cambria | 252 |
| Jack Link's | 249 |
| Minnesota Valley Action Council | 230 |
| Federated Insurance | 209 |
| South Central College | 206 |
| MRCI | 201 |
| Consolidated Communications | 200 |
| Monarch Healthcare Management | 187 |
| Maple River Schools | 172 |
| Dotson Iron Castings | 155 |
| MEI - Total Elevator Solutions (2020) | 152 |
| Associated Finishing | 130 |
| Wis-Pak of Mankato, Inc (2019) | 125 |
Lindsay Windows | 120 |
| Associated Finishing Inc | 130 |
| ISG | 110 |
| Vetter Stone | 103 |
| Coughlan Companies/Capstone | 100 |
| Schwickert's Tecta America (2019) | 100 |
The Orthopeadic & Fracture Clinic, P.A. | 99 |
LJP Waste Solutions | 89 |
| Industrial Fabrication Services | 85 |
| Lil Bee's Learning Center | 80 |
| Alltech (2019) | 76 |
| Eide Bailly | 74 |
| Pioneer Bank | 73 |
| United Prairie Bank | 71 |
| Buffalo Wild Wings | 62 |
| City of North Mankato | 61 |
| Schmidt Siding and Window | 61 |
| Oak Terrace Assisted Living of North Mankato | 60 |
| The Free Press Media | 60 |
| Volk Transfer | 59 |
| Xcel Energy | 59 |
Americare Mobility Van Inc. | 57 |
Laketown Electric Corporation | 53 |
Ziegler Cat (2020) | 53 |
| St. Peter Food Co-op & Deli | 52 |
| All American Foods, Inc. (2019) | 52 |
| Ardent Mills | 50 |
| KEYC | 50 |
| True Value Distribution Center | 50 |
| Waste Management (2019) | 50 |
| Ecumen - Mankato & St Peter | 45 |
| First National Bank of Minnesota | 42 |
| Kato Roofing, Inc. | 40 |
| Minnesota Valley Federal Credit Union | 39 |
| RE/MAX Dynamic Agents | 37 |
| House of Hope, Inc. | 36 |
| APX | 35 |
| Birchwood Cottages | 35 |
| Rasmussen University | 35 |
| Carlson-Tillisch Eye Clinic | 34 |
| CLA (Clifton Larson Allen) | 34 |
| VINE Faith in Action | 33 |
| Brunton Architects | 30 |
| Kato Moving and Storage | 30 |
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