Travis is Solano’s employment champ

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FAIRFIELD — There’s not even any competition for the title of Solano County’s largest employer.

Year after year, Travis Air Force Base is the employment champion. It has such a large lead that no other employer can challenge it.

An estimated 13,400 people work at the base. That’s almost twice the population of Solano County’s smallest city, Rio Vista.

The base estimates its local economic impact is $1.6 billion annually. That’s among the reasons local cities and the county work closely with the base and lobby in Washington, D.C., to try to bring the base new missions.

But the county has a variety of other large employers also, far smaller than Travis, but still important to the local economy. They range from school districts to hospitals to biotech companies.

Here are the top 10 county employers:

1. Travis Air Force Base

13,400 employees

Government

424-1110

www.travis.af.mil

2. Kaiser Permanente/Vallejo

3,906 employees

Health care

975 Sereno Drive, Vallejo

651-1000

www.kaiserpermanente.org

3. Solano County

2,850 employees

Government

675 Texas St., Fairfield

784-3111

www.co.solano.ca.us

4. California State Prison Solano

2,200 employees

Government

2100 Peabody Road, Vacaville

451-0182

www.cdcr.ca.gov/Facilities_Locator/SOL.html

5. Fairfield-Suisun School District

2,000 employees

Government

2490 Hilborn Road, Fairfield

399-5000

www.fsusd.k12.ca.us/home/index.jsp

6. Six Flag Discovery Kingdom

1,600 employees

Entertainment

1001 Fairgrounds Drive, Vallejo

643-6722

www.sixflags.com/discoverykingdom/index.aspx

7. California Medical Facility

1,400 employees

Government

1600 California Drive, Vacaville

448-6841

www.cdcr.ca.gov/Facilities_Locator/CMF.html

8. NorthBay Medical Center

1,115 employees

Health care

1200 B. Gale Wilson Blvd., Fairfield

646-5000

www.northbay.org/Index.aspx

9. Kaiser Permanente/Vacaville

1,075 employees

Health care

1 Quality Drive, Vacaville

624-2600

https://members.kaiserpermanente.org/kpweb/facilitydir/facility.do?id=100315&rop=MRN#AnchorX

10. Genentech

850 employees

1000 New Horizons Way, Vacaville

454-1000

www.gene.com

Reach Barry Eberling at 427-6929, or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/beberlingdr.

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