Top 2 employers cut jobs; others add, hold steady

Despite cutting jobs in 2006, the two largest employers in Boulder and Broomfield counties, IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. remain at the top of the list of the area’s largest private-sector employers.

Although it cut 200 jobs at its campus between Boulder and Longmont, IBM (NYSE: IBM, $93.28) moved from No. 2 to replace Sun’s operations in Broomfield as the No. 1 private-sector employer in the Boulder Valley with 4,000 employees.

The University of Colorado in Boulder is the No. 1 public-sector employer with 7,050 full-time workers.

Last year the perennial largest-private employer was unseated by Sun Microsystems because its 2005 purchase of…