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by tptacek 4811 days ago
Yes, they do. They're not even just the largest employer bracket; they literally employ a majority of the employed in America.
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Hm...

http://www.bls.gov/bdm/entrepreneurship/entrepreneurship.htm

Firms with 250+ employees have been slightly >50% since 1996.

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cewfs.nr0.htm

37.4% of employees are at firms of 1000+, 6.8% are 500-999, 7.2% are 250-499.

So either the numbers I remembered were a bit outdated, or were using a higher cutoff than 250 (probably 500, since I remember it being not that much less than 50% working at "large" corporations).

I'm looking at "Statistics about Business Size", and considering as "large businesses" those firms with 500+ employees, as that's the largest top-level bracket they track. Within the 500+ bracket, firms with 5000+ employees are (for whatever it's worth) the largest component by far.
Citation?
Census.