California: Corporations

Fortune 1000 Rankings (2011) 
Company Rank Revenue (USD Millions) City
Chevron 3 $196,337 San Ramon
Hewlett-Packard 11 $126,033 Palo Alto
McKesson 15 $108,702 San Francisco
Wells Fargo 23 $93,249 San Francisco
Apple 35 $65,225 Cupertino
Intel 56 $43,623 Santa Clara
Safeway 60 $41,050 Pleasanton
Cisco Systems 62 $40,040 San Jose
Walt Disney 65 $38,063 Burbank
Northrop Grumman 72 $34,757 Los Angeles
Ingram Micro 75 $34,589 Santa Ana
Google 92 $29,321 Mountain View
Oracle 96 $26,820 Redwood City
DirecTV 110 $24,102 El Segundo
Occidental Petroleum 129 $19,857 Los Angeles
Amgen 163 $15,053 Thousand Oaks
Gap 167 $14,664 San Francisco
PG&E Corp. 177 $13,841 San Francisco
Health Net 179 $13,620 Woodland Hills
Edison International 198 $12,409 Rosemead
Qualcomm 222 $10,991 San Diego
Jacobs Engineering Group 250 $9,916 Pasadena
Western Digital 251 $9,850 Lake Forest
Applied Materials 259 $9,549 Santa Clara
URS 267 $9,177 San Francisco
eBay 269 $9,156 San Jose
Sempra Energy 274 $9,003 San Diego
Synnex 281 $8,617 Fremont
Visa 297 $8,065 San Francisco
Gilead Sciences 299 $7,949 Foster City
Ross Stores 303 $7,866 Pleasanton
Dole Food 341 $6,894 Westlake Village
Broadcom 343 $6,818 Irvine
AECOM Technology 353 $6,559 Los Angeles
Avery Dennison 356 $6,513 Pasadena
Advanced Micro Devices 357 $6,494 Sunnyvale
Yahoo 365 $6,325 Sunnyvale
Sanmina-SCI 366 $6,319 San Jose
Reliance Steel & Aluminum 367 $6,313 Los Angeles
Spectrum Group International 381 $6,012 Irvine
Symantec 382 $5,985 Mountain View
Mattel 392 $5,856 El Segundo
Franklin Resources 393 $5,853 San Mateo
Pacific Life 405 $5,603 Newport Beach
Clorox 411 $5,534 Oakland
Core-Mark Holding 412 $5,510 South San Francisco
Agilent Technologies 419 $5,444 Santa Clara
CB Richard Ellis Group 440 $5,119 Los Angeles
Live Nation Entertainment 444 $5,064 Beverly Hills
Allergan 457 $4,919 Irvine
SanDisk 468 $4,827 Milpitas
Charles Schwab 491 $4,474 San Francisco
Levi Strauss 496 $4,411 San Francisco
Carefusion 524 $4,094 San Diegp
Juniper Networks 525 $4,093 Sunnyvale
Molina Healthcare 527 $4,086 Long Beach
Netapp 541 $3,931 Sunnyvale
Unified Grocers 543 $3,921 Commerce
First American Financial 547 $3,907 Santa Ana
Adobe Systems 556 $3,800 San Jose
Del Monte Foods 564 $3,742 San Francisco
Beckman Coulter 569 $3,663 Brea
Electronic Arts 571 $3,654 Redwood City
Stater Bros. Holdings 580 $3,607 San Bernadino
Life Technologies 584 $3,588 Carlsbad
Nvidia 590 $3,543 Santa Clara
Williams-Sonoma 594 $3,504 San Francisco
Intuit 597 $3,488 Mountain View
Tutor Perini 629 $3,199 Sylmar
Robert Half International 634 $3,175 Menlo Park
Mercury General 695 $2,776 Los Angeles
Leap Wireless International 709 $2,697 San Diego
LSI 736 $2,570 Milpitas
Guess 751 $2,487 Los Angeles
Newegg 756 $2,461 City of Industry
Varian Medical Systems 786 $2,353 Palo Alto
Jack In The Box 799 $2,298 San Diego
Sunpower 817 $2,230 San Jose
Tetra Tech 823 $2,201 Pasadena
Netflix 829 $2,163 Los Gatos
Lam Research 835 $2,134 Fremont
Brocade Communications Systems 847 $2,094 San Jose
Mcafee 853 $2,065 Santa Clara
Skechers U.S.A. 870 $2,007 Manhattan Beach
Maxim Integrated Products 876 $1,998 Sunnyvale
Altera 888 $1,954 San Jose
Autodesk 890 $1,952 San Rafael
Bio-Rad Laboratories 893 $1,927 Hercules
Sun Healthcare Group 901 $1,908 Irvine
Corelogic 919 $1,866 Santa Ana
Quicksilver 926 $1,838 Huntington Beach
Xilinx 930 $1,834 San Jose
KLA-Tencor 934 $1,821 Milpitas
Teledyne Technologies 950 $1,778 Thousand Oaks
Corinthian Colleges 953 $1,764 Santa Ana
Granite Construction 954 $1,763 Watsonville
Cheesecake Factory 988 $1,659 Calabasas Hills
Salesforce.com 991 $1,657 San Francisco
Public Storage 993 $1,647 Glendale
Atmel 994 $1,644 San Jose

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Largest Private Companies (2011) 
Company Rank Revenue (USD Millions) City
Bechtel 5 $27,900 San Francisco
Platinum Equity 23 $10,400 Beverly Hills
Capital Group Cos 41 $7,500 Los Angeles
Kingston Technology Company 51 $6,480 Fountain Valley
Save Mart Supermarkets 65 $4,800 Modesto
Golden State Foods 71 $4,600 Irvine
JD Heiskell& Co 73 $4,580 Tulare
Levi Strauss&Co 78 $4,410 San Francisco
Consolidated Elec Distributors 96 $3,800 Westlake Village
Stater Bros 102 $3,670 Ban Bernardino
Del Monte Foods 104 $3,670 San Francisco
E&J Gallo Winery 118 $3,400 Modesto
Baley's 138 $3,000 West Sacramento
Vizio 146 $2,900 Irvine
Petco Animal Supplies 151 $2,800 San Diego
Parsons 156 $2,710 Pasadena
Forever 21 162 $2,600 Los Angeles
Newegg.com 172 $2,500 City of Industry
Young's Market 177 $2,460 Tustin
Roll Global 183 $2,400 Los Angeles
Smart& Final 185 $2,400 City of Commerce
Wibur- Ellis 188 $2,340 San Francisco
Foster Farms 201 $2,240 Livingston
Fry's Electronics 210 $2,000 San Jose

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Tax Rate (2012) 
Corporate Marginal Income Tax Rate 8.84%
Individual Income Tax Rate 1.0% > $0
2.0% > $7,124
4.0% > $17,346
6.0% > $27,377
8.0% > $38,004
9.3% > $48,029
10.3% > $1,000,000
Sales Tax Rate 7.25%
Business Tax Climate Index Rankings (2011) 
Business Tax Climate Index 49
Corporate Tax Index Rank 33
Individual Income Tax Index Rank 48
Sales Tax Index Rank 49
Unemployment Insurance Tax Index Rank 14
Property Tax Index Rank 16

Sources:
CNN Money (2011)
Tax Foundation (2011)

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