Moreover, the state has as well a long history of hosting financial services, including insurance companies and hedge funds.
Let me say that back in the days Connecticut was a center of gun manufacturing; four gun-manufacturing firms are still operating in the state employing over 2,000 people.
Furthermore, some of the financial industry employers include some of the big names like The Hartford, Travelers, Cigna, Aetna, Mass Mutual, and People’s United Financial, Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS Bridgewater Associates, and GE Capital.
When it comes to the real estate industry, major employers are Realogy and William Raveis Real Estate, and the Hartford-based manufacturer United Technologies Corporation (UTC), employs more than 22,000 people.
To add to that, there are some other major manufacturers that employ a lot of people, as well as an agricultural sector that employs more than 12,000 people.
