Editing Bakersfield, California (section)

=== Top employers ===
{{Update|part=section|date=November 2023|reason=List dates to 2011}}
According to the Bakersfield Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, as of 2022, the top employers in the county based in Bakersfield were:<ref>https://content.civicplus.com/api/assets/cc16897f-aba8-44f2-98ea-fba17c81be5d?cache=1800</ref>

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Employer
! # of Employees
|-
| 1
|[[Kern County, California|County of Kern]]
|7,655
|-
| 2
|Kern High School District
|4,832
|-
|3
|Bakersfield City School District
|4,041
|-
|4
|[[Dignity Health]]
|3,432
|-
| 5
|[[Bolthouse Farms]]
|2,775
|-
| 6
|Panama-Buena Vista Union School District
|2,459
|-
| 7
|[[Kern County, California|Kern Medical Center]]
|2,400
|-
| 8
|Adventist Health Bakersfield
|1,812
|-
|9
|City of Bakersfield
|1,718
|-
|10
|Kern County Superintendent of Schools
|1,665
|}