Economy
According to the City's 2009 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report the top employers in the city are:
| # | Employer | # of Employees |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conn's Appliances Inc. | 3,419 |
| 2 | Beaumont Independent School District | 2,909 |
| 3 | Memorial Hermann Baptist Hospital | 1,880 |
| 4 | Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital | 1,783 |
| 5 | City of Beaumont | 1,343 |
| 6 | Lamar University | 1,203 |
| 7 | Jefferson County | 1,193 |
| 8 | CB&I Matrix Engineering | 752 |
| 9 | ENGlobal Corporation | 468 |
| 10 | Wal-Mart | 450 |
A significant element of the region's economy is the Port of Beaumont, the nation's fourth largest seaport by Tonnage. The 842d Transportation Battalion, and the 596th Transportation Group are both stationed at the port in Beaumont.
Conn's Appliances and Jason's Deli have their headquarters in Beaumont. Originally Sweet Leaf Tea Company had its headquarters in Beaumont. The headquarters moved to Austin in October 2003.
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Famous quotes containing the word economy:
“The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get “a good job,” but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant’s economy is a coarse symbol of the soul’s economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Quidquid luce fuit tenebris agit: but also the other way around. What we experience in dreams, so long as we experience it frequently, is in the end just as much a part of the total economy of our soul as anything we “really” experience: because of it we are richer or poorer, are sensitive to one need more or less, and are eventually guided a little by our dream-habits in broad daylight and even in the most cheerful moments occupying our waking spirit.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)