Companies in Omaha: 25,290 businesses, Berkshire Hathaway and a big-company town for its size

This page is for anyone who needs to know the companies in Omaha: job seekers, people looking for a supplier or partner, and B2B sellers deciding whether a mid-size Midwestern metro with an outsized list of headquarters is worth a territory. It covers the public companies based here, the Chamber's major employers, the business counts by county and sector, and how to check a Nebraska or Iowa company.

Public companies headquartered in Omaha

Ranked by revenue in each company's latest 10-K, among SEC-registered listed companies whose 10-K cover gives a principal executive office in the metro:

The ten reported $410.57 billion, and Berkshire Hathaway's figure, which includes its insurance, railroad (BNSF), utilities and manufacturing businesses, is 90.5% of it. AMCON's sales include $561.9 million of excise taxes, as its income statement shows. Lindsay's latest 10-K, for the year to August 2026, reports $635.9 million, down from $676.4 million. Union Pacific and Werner are both transport companies, and Valmont and Lindsay both make irrigation equipment, so farming and freight run through the list.

The Greater Omaha Chamber counts four Fortune 500 companies in the metro: Berkshire Hathaway, Union Pacific, Peter Kiewit Sons' and Mutual of Omaha. Neither Kiewit, the construction company, nor Mutual of Omaha, the insurer, files a 10-K with the SEC. The Chamber's Fortune 1000 list adds Valmont, First National of Nebraska and Werner.

Omaha's major employers

The Greater Omaha Chamber's "Businesses Choose Greater Omaha" page lists major employers in size bands rather than exact counts (it gives no as-of date; the page is marked 2025):

Health care and the Air Force top the list. Two things stand out for sellers: Berkshire Hathaway itself doesn't appear, though Nebraska Furniture Mart, which Berkshire's 10-K lists among its home furnishings businesses, does; and the 1,000-plus band mixes local institutions like Boys Town and Omaha Steaks with regional offices of national companies such as PayPal, LinkedIn and Fiserv.

How many businesses are in Omaha

County Business Patterns (CBP) for the Omaha, NE-IA Metro Area (CBSA 36540), all sectors, 2023:

By size, 21,040 establishments have 1 to 19 employees, 3,542 have 20 to 99 and 708 have 100 or more, including 34 with 1,000 or more. Douglas County, which includes the city of Omaha, has 74.6% of private employment; Pottawattamie County across the Missouri River, home to Council Bluffs, is the Iowa side's largest. CBP counts locations with paid employees, excludes the self-employed and government (so Offutt and the public schools aren't in these counts), and measures employment in the pay period including March 12, 2023.

What Omaha businesses do

Average pay is our calculation. Omaha's distinctive clusters are insurance and payments, where the Chamber's list includes Mutual of Omaha, Physicians Mutual, Fiserv and First National Bank of Omaha, and meat processing, where 38 plants employ 9,311 people. Construction has the most establishments of any sector, mostly small trades: 2,915 of the 3,254 have fewer than 20 employees. For the builders, see construction companies in Omaha.

How to check an Omaha company

For a business in Council Bluffs or elsewhere on the Iowa side, check the Iowa Secretary of State's business entity search instead.

Prospecting Omaha's insurers

Illustrative example. The company, prices and results are fictional; the counts are from CBP 2023.

Platte Intake (platteintake.example) sells software that reads incoming claims documents and routes them to adjusters.

• Insurance carrier establishments (NAICS 5241) in the metro with 50 or more employees: 9 + 8 + 3 + 6 + 3 = 29.
• Many belong to the same companies, so it plans on about 15 distinct carriers or claims operations.
• Winning 3 enterprise contracts at $250,000 a year is $750,000.

The buyers are the vice president of claims operations and the head of IT, and a deal this size takes six to twelve months and a security review. With only 15 targets, every account deserves its own plan: which lines each writes, which claims system it runs and who sponsored the last automation project. That account-by-account research is what Bebop does before the first meeting.

Subject: Claims intake at [Company]

Hi [first name],

At most carriers, adjusters still spend the first hour of a claim reading attachments and keying fields that a machine could pull out in seconds.

We read and route incoming claims documents into your claims system, with every extracted field traceable to the page it came from. Could I show you a test on a hundred of your own anonymized claims?

[Your name], Platte Intake

Next step: see the region's carriers in trucking companies in Omaha.