Editing Renton, Washington (section)

==Economy==
[[Image:Renton-Library-3560.jpg|thumb|[[Renton Public Library]] straddles the Cedar River.]]
[[Boeing Commercial Airplanes]],<ref>".{{cite web |url=http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/aboutus/brief/commercial.html |title=Boeing: Commercial Airplanes - Overview Home |access-date=April 14, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414075454/http://www.boeing.com/companyoffices/aboutus/brief/commercial.html|archive-date=April 14, 2012}}, [[Boeing Commercial Airplanes]]; retrieved on May 15, 2012.</ref> [[Boeing Capital]],<ref>[http://www.boeing.com/bcc/sitemap/overview.html About Us – Overview] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130207052306/http://www.boeing.com/bcc/sitemap/overview.html|date=February 7, 2013}}, [[Boeing Capital]]; retrieved March 14, 2011.</ref> [[Providence Health & Services]],<ref>[http://www2.providence.org/phs/locations/renton/Pages/default.aspx Corporate Offices] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203161950/http://www2.providence.org/phs/locations/renton/Pages/default.aspx |date=February 3, 2016 }}, [[Providence Health & Services]]; retrieved March 14, 2011.</ref> and [[Wizards of the Coast]] have their headquarters in Renton.<ref>"[http://www.wizards.com/Company/Contact.aspx Contact Us] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100602143533/http://www.wizards.com/Company/Contact.aspx |date=June 2, 2010 }}", [[Wizards of the Coast]]; retrieved May 2, 2010.</ref>

The [[Boeing Renton Factory]] has operated since World War II, when it manufactured the [[B-29 Superfortress]]; currently, it produces the [[Boeing 737|737]] airliner. The Renton plant produced the Jetfoil and Pegasus class hydrofoils in the 1970s. As of 2001, 40% of all commercial aircraft in the air were assembled in Renton. Boeing remains the largest employer in Renton, which is home to over 10,000 employees and three of the aerospace giant's six major business divisions: [[Boeing Commercial Airplanes]], [[Boeing Capital|Boeing Capital Corporation]] and the Shared Services Group. The local newspaper in the 1970s, the ''Record-Chronicle'', proclaimed the city the jet capital of the world.

[[Paccar]] has traditionally been a large employer in the city as well with its Kenworth Truck plant located in Renton's industrial area on the south end of [[Lake Washington]]. In 1907 the Seattle Car Manufacturing Co. moved to a large manufacturing plant in Renton after a fire destroyed the original plant in Seattle. The Car Company was the only manufacturer of train cars on the [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]].

The Renton plant expanded its foundry capabilities in 1911, and Seattle Car and Foundry Co merged with the Twohy Brothers of Portland in 1917 and became the Pacific Car and Foundry Company or Paccar. During the Great Depression, the Renton Paccar plant developed power winches for use in the logging industry. When [[World War II]] arrived, the Renton manufacturing switched its production towards the war effort, and by the war's end in 1945 had built 1,500 [[M4 Sherman|Sherman Tanks]]. In the second half of the 20th century there was not enough repeat business for Paccar-built train cars as rail equipment in 1965 came to only 1/3 of the company's sales. Thus the Paccar Renton plant began manufacturing structural steel until the 1970s recession. In the early 1980s the Paccar Railcar Division, the last remnants of the original Pacific Car and Foundry Co., closed down. In 1993, a new [[Kenworth]] assembly plant opened on the former site of Pacific Car and Foundry.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.paccar.com/heritage/default.asp|title=106 Years in Paccar History|publisher=PACCAR Inc.|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509030506/http://www.paccar.com/heritage/default.asp|archive-date=May 9, 2013}}</ref>

===Top employers===
As of 2022<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://whyrenton.com/live-and-work/major-employers-renton/|title=Major Employers Renton|website=Renton Economic Development|date=August 23, 2017|language=en-US|access-date=July 24, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724010708/https://whyrenton.com/live-and-work/major-employers-renton/|archive-date=July 24, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> the top employers in the city are:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Employer
! # of Employees
|-
|1
|[[Boeing|Boeing Company]]
|11,438
|-
|2
|[[Valley Medical Center (Washington)|Valley Medical Center]]
|4,749
|-
|3
|Kaiser Permanente
|3,010
|-
|4
|[[Renton School District|Renton School District No. 403]]
|2,379
|-
|5
|[[Paccar]]
|1,418
|-
|6
|[[Kroger]] ([[Fred Meyer]], [[QFC]])
|972
|-
|7
|City of Renton
|882
|-
|8
|Providence Washington Regional Services
|860
|-
|9
|[[GEICO|Geico Insurance]]
|660
|-
|10
|[[Renton Technical College]]
|532
|-
|11
|[[Seattle Seahawks]]
|523
|-
|12
|[[IKEA]]
|519
|-
|13
|[[Wizards of the Coast]]
|492
|-
|14
|Healthpoint
|446
|-
|15
|[[Walmart]]
|403
|-
|16
|Alliance Packaging
|249
|-
|17
|Bloodworks Northwest
|241
|-
|18
|[[Starbucks]]
|241
|-
|19
|Puget Sound Educational Service District
|228
|-
|20
|[[Target Corporation|Target]]
|209
|-
|21
|Proliance Orthopedic Associates
|209
|-
|22
|AIM Aerospace
|196
|-
|23
|Trojan Litho
|188
|-
|24
|[[Cutter & Buck]]
|167
|-
|25
|Metrorcomm
|166
|}