Employment
Throughout its 150-year history as an incorporated city, Cambridge has consistently provided its diverse community of students, entrepreneurs, academics, professionals, artisans, and immigrants with a progressive place to work. Cambridge Chamber of Commerce members play an integral role in making Cambridge a vibrant and accommodating place to work for all its 120,000 plus employees. The two largest employers in Cambridge are Harvard and MIT, followed closely by the local, state and federal governments with Cambridge's largest private employers coming from the biotechnology, health care and high tech sectors. The largest employers in Cambridge include:
- Harvard University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- City of Cambridge
- Cambridge Public Health Commission
- Biogen IDEC
- Federal Government
- Mount Auburn Hospital
- Millennium Pharmaceuticals
- Genzyme Corporation
- Draper Laboratory, Inc.
- Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research
- Wyeth Cambridge
- EF International
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- Quest Diagnostics
- Camp, Dresser & McKee
- Whole Foods
- Lesley University
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals
- Shaws Supermarkets/Star Market
- Whitehead Institute
- Monitor Group
- Grace Construction
- ABT Associates
- Youville Hospital and Rehabilitation Center