Greater Des Moines regional industries include financial services, insurance, government, manufacturing, trade and service.  The metro area's finance-insurance sector has a $3 billion annual payroll.

A selection of the largest private employers in our service area is shown below, and a printable listing of those employing 500 or more people follows the list.

• Wells Fargo & Co. - Financial services and home mortgage
• Principal Financial Group - Financial services
• Iowa Health - Des Moines - Healthcare
• Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines - Healthcare
• Nationwide/Allied Insurance - Insurance
• Pioneer, a DuPont Business - Crop inputs for worldwide agribusiness
• Marsh - Insurance
• John Deere companies - Agricultural machinery, GPS, consumer financial services 
• Hy-Vee Food Stores Inc. - Retail grocery and drugstore chain
• Wellmark Inc. - Health insurance
• UPS - Logistics, distribution, transportation, freight, customers brokerage
• Firestone Agricultural Tire Company - Global distribution center for ag tires 
• Emerson Process Management Fisher Division - Control valves and systems, divisional headquarters
• JBS Swift & Co. - Pork processing and packaging
• Lennox Manufacturing - Heating and air conditioners 

Publicly held companies in Greater Des Moines are American Equity Investment Life Holding Co, Aviva USA, Casey's General Stores Inc., Dice Holdings Inc., EMC Insurance Companies, FBL Financial Group, Inc., Meredith Corp., Principal Financial Group Inc., West Bancorporation Inc., and Windstream Communications.