Largest employers
Cape Fear Valley Health System has 4,600 employees. It includes Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, Highsmith-Rainey Memorial Hospital and Southeastern Regional Rehabilitation Center. Cape Fear Valley also has a contract with the Cleveland Clinic to perform heart surgeries at the medical center.
Wal-Mart employs about 3,620 people. Roughly 1,050 of those jobs are at Wal-Mart's distribution center in Hope Mills. The rest are at its five stores and one Sam's Club.
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has about 3,000 employees at its Fayetteville plant off Ramsey Street. The plant manufactures tires.
Food Lion has 18 grocery stores in the county that employ more than 840 people.
AT&T Mobility employs about 800 workers at its Owen Drive center, which was first set up to handle Cingular calls before the companies merged.
Purolator Filters NA has about 1,090 employees at its plant on Natal Road. Owned by two German companies, Bosch and Mann+Hummel, the plant makes oil, air, fuel and cabin filters.
Eaton Corp. has more than 600 workers at its plant on Doc Bennett Road, where it makes industrial motor controls.
DuPont employs 540 people at its plants off N.C. 87 near the Cumberland-Bladen county line and another facility on Cedar Creek Road.
M.J. Soffe has about 550 employees at a plant off U.S. 301. Owned by Delta Apparel Inc. of Duluth, Ga., the company manufactures sportswear.
The Logistics Co., based in Fayetteville, has about 1,125 employees across the globe. Of those, 349 full-time employees work on Fort Bragg or at the headquarters on Ramsey Street.
Fayetteville Publishing Co. employs about 350 full- and part-time workers in Cumberland County. The company publishes The Fayetteville Observer, The Sandspur, Carolina Trader, Next! Magazine and other publications, including its Asheville-based Iwanna classified-advertising publications.
Time Warner Cable 's Fayetteville operations employ about 325 workers in the county.
Lowes has about 307 employees at three home improvement stores.
Other large employers in the county include Fluor Daniel Services Corp., ITT Industries and KCA Corp., according to the N.C. Employment Security Commission.