|  | Top Out-of-Town Companies | Rank | Company | Total Employees | Area Employees | Industry | | 1 | McDonald's Corp. | 418,000 | 32,000 | Food | | 2 | Northrop Grumman Corp. | 123,000 | 18,247 | Aerospace/defense | | 3 | Verizon Communications Inc. | 203,100 | 16,000 | Telecommunications | | 4 | Science Applications International Corp. | 43,079 | 14,889 | Information Technology | | 5 | Ahold USA | 119,524 | 13,335 | Retail | | 6 | Safeway Inc. | 190,000 | 8,500 | Retail | | 7 | Computer Sciences Corp. | 92,000 | 8,000 | Information technology | | 8 | May Department Stores Co. | 110,000 | 8,000 | Retail | | 9 | International Business Machines Corp. | 319,273 | 7,000 | Information Technology | | 10 | Time Warner | 19,500 | 5,400 | Media | |  | | | | | |
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