Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Employer associations worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,548 employer associations worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 25,697 professional contacts across them, including 5,389 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Roma the largest hub.
This list covers employer associations worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026. Country and city lists for employer associations follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest employer associations worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,713 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SHRM is a member-driven catalyst for creating better workplaces where people and businesses thrive together.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,518 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HK er en af Danmarks største fagforeninger med næsten medlemmer, der arbejder inden for bl.a.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 997 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vi er en a-kasse, fagforening og erhvervsorganisation for både lønmodtagere og selvstændige.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 781 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “HRCI is the career partner for the human resource profession, supporting HR professionals and the organizations that rely on them.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 486 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With around members, Unia is the largest trade union in Switzerland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 472 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Benvenuti nella pagina ufficiale di CNA - Confederazione Nazionale dell’Artigianato e della Piccola e Media Impresa.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 453 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Vi er erhvervsorganisation og arbejdsgiverforening for et af verdens mest handlekraftige erhvervsliv.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 451 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Velkommen til Lederne.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 408 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ibec is Ireland’s largest lobby and business representative group.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 336 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “La Fédération des Entreprises Romandes Genève, forte de ses entreprises membres et ses 80 associations professionnelles, a quatre missions- la défense de l'économie privée- la…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 290 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1901, MRA is a nonprofit employer association that serves more than employers, covering more than 1 million employees worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 254 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Manufacturer & Business Association (MBA), founded in 1905, is dedicated to helping employers face challenges by delivering services that lower the cost of doing business…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 247 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Manageritalia è la Federazione nazionale dei dirigenti, quadri e professional del commercio, trasporti, turismo, servizi, terziario avanzato che rappresenta, in Italia, oltre…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “De MBO Raad behartigt de gemeenschappelijke belangen van de aangesloten leden, biedt diensten aan en onderneemt gezamenlijke activiteiten die samenhangen met deze…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 209 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AWVN - Vooruitgang door vernieuwend werkgeven Goed werkgeverschap biedt organisaties een voorsprong.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 199 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Employers Council is the country’s largest Employers Association.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 189 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “With HR Source, you're more than a customer - you're a member.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 188 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The HRPA ensures that our members and students have the most up-to-date tools and the advanced skills to lead our workplaces into the future.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 187 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Fepem est l'organisation socioprofessionnelle patronale de référence du secteur de l'emploi à domicile.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Almega is an organisation that supports service companies in Sweden.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 155 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mutua Montañesa es una asociación de empresarios sin ánimo de lucro cuyo objetivo es, bajo la tutela del Ministerio de Trabajo, optimizar y agilizar la gestión de determinadas…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 155 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Créée en 1947, l’ANDRH est une association loi 1901 au service des professionnels des ressources humaines, représentant les entreprises et organisations de tous secteurs…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 138 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Confederation of Danish Employers (DA), founded in 1896, is a non-profit organisation funded by subscriptions from member organisations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dedicated to the continuous enhancement of human resources through networking, learning, and advocacy, the Professionals In Human Resources Association (PIHRA) serves the human…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Health Association Nova Scotia is a not-for-profit, non-government, member-based association with over 65 years’ experience in providing expertise, shared services, and support.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: employer associations. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names employer associations.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of employer associations, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name employer associations. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
Showing 25 of 1,548 employer associations worldwide
See the full list, filter by size, metro and specialty, and get verified emails and direct dials for all 5,389 reachable decision-makers.
Free signup · no credit card
Employer associations worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among employer associations, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for employer associations are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “employer associations”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names employer associations), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among employer associations, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 5,389 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Employer associations by location
11 lists · largest firstEvery Employer associations list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Employer associations based in the United States364
- Employer associations based in Italy199
- Employer associations based in France133
- Employer associations based in Germany105
- Employer associations based in Brazil93
- Employer associations based in Switzerland44
- Employer associations based in Australia37
- Employer associations based in Denmark34
- Employer associations based in Canada29
- Employer associations based in the Netherlands25
- Employer associations based in the United Kingdom25
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names employer associations, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many employer associations are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,548 employer associations worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
SHRM, headquartered in Alexandria, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most employer associations?
The United States leads with 364 companies, followed by Italy (199) and France (133). Every employer associations list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most employer associations?
Roma leads with 35 headquartered companies, followed by Paris (29) and Berlin (15).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 5,389 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,548 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
Ready to reach these companies? Verified emails and direct dials for all 1,548 employer associations worldwide. Start with a free account, no credit card.
Download this list →Related lists
Browse the directory
About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.