WHERE WE WORK: This week's Crain's has a new list of the "Largest Cuyahoga County employers" (there's a link to it on the web site but it doesn't work). Here are the top twenty in order of workforce size:

1 Cleveland Clinic
2 University Hospitals (including their partnership with the Sisters of Charity)
3 Cleveland Municipal School District
4 U.S. Office of Personnel Management
5 Cuyahoga County
6 City of Cleveland
7 Progressive Corporation
8 KeyCorp
9 National City Corporation
10 U.S. Postal Service
11 MetroHealth
12 Ford
13 CWRU
14 Tops Markets
15 Giant Eagle
16 Continental Airlines
17 State of Ohio
18 General Motors
19 RTA
20 Sherwin-Williams

These twenty employers currently account for 152,000 employees, which is almost one-fourth of the county's total employment (613,000 in January according to OBES). They include all county payrolls with more than 2,500 workers.

Only three of the top ten, and nine of the top twenty, are private for-profit companies. Five of the top ten are government entities (counting the USPS). Numbers 1 and 2 are nonprofit health care systems.

Of the 152,000 people working for the county's twenty biggest employers, only 42,000 -- less than a third -- work in the "private sector".