Major employers in Burnaby

42 employers, 30 of them head offices: 20 worldwide, 2 national and 8 regional. Headcounts are for the site here, with the page that publishes them.

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Employers42
Worldwide HQ20
National HQ2
Regional HQ8
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Employers, largest first

People employed at the site in this city where a source publishes it; head offices without a published count follow.

CompanyHereEmployees hereWorldwide HQJobs
Burnaby School District 41Education — K-12 school districtMajor site4,5002026Burnaby, British ColumbiaCareers →
Simon Fraser UniversityEducation — universityRegional HQBritish Columbia (main campus; SFU also has Surrey and Vancouver campuses)3,5722025Burnaby, British ColumbiaCareers →
BC Liquor Distribution BranchPublic administration — provincial liquor and cannabis wholesale/retailRegional HQBritish Columbia (corporate head office)3,0712025Burnaby, British ColumbiaCareers →
City of BurnabyPublic administration — municipalMajor site2,8692026Burnaby, British ColumbiaCareers →
Interfor CorporationForest products — lumberWorldwide HQglobal2,4582025Burnaby, British ColumbiaCareers →
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)Education — polytechnicRegional HQBritish Columbia (main campus)2,2752025Burnaby, British ColumbiaCareers →
British Columbia Automobile Association (BCAA)Membership services and insurance agencyRegional HQBritish Columbia1,4532025Burnaby, British ColumbiaCareers →
BC Housing (BC Housing Management Commission)Public administration — provincial housing agencyRegional HQBritish Columbia (corporate office)1,2202025Burnaby, British ColumbiaCareers →
Ballard Power SystemsClean technology — hydrogen fuel cellsWorldwide HQglobal8002023Burnaby, British ColumbiaCareers →
Ausenco Engineering Canada Inc.Engineering services — mining and industrialpart of AusencoMajor site5782025Brisbane, AustraliaCareers →
NTT DATA, BCU Inc.Information technology servicespart of NTT DATA GroupMajor site4512025Tokyo, Japan—
DP World (Canada) Inc.Port terminals and logisticspart of DP WorldMajor site3882025Dubai, United Arab Emirates—
SkyBox LabsVideo game developmentMajor site2812025Metro Vancouver, British ColumbiaCareers →
Binary Stream Software Inc.Software — Microsoft Dynamics ERP add-ons (billing, multi-entity, lease accounting)Worldwide HQglobal832025Burnaby, British ColumbiaCareers →
Cellula Robotics Ltd.Marine technology — autonomous underwater vehiclesWorldwide HQglobal802026Burnaby, British ColumbiaCareers →
Greater Vancouver Food BankSocial assistance — food bank (charity)Regional HQGreater Vancouver (head office and warehouse)662025Burnaby, British ColumbiaCareers →
ABC Recycling Ltd.Metal recyclingWorldwide HQglobal—Burnaby, British ColumbiaCareers →
ARTMS Inc.Medical isotopes — cyclotron-based isotope production technologyWorldwide HQglobal—Burnaby, British Columbia—
BeedieReal estate — industrial and residential developmentWorldwide HQglobal—Burnaby, British ColumbiaCareers →
FantuanTechnology platform — Asian food ordering and deliveryWorldwide HQglobal—Burnaby, British Columbia—
Garibaldi Glass Industries Inc.Manufacturing — architectural and insulated glassWorldwide HQglobal—Burnaby, British Columbia—
GLENTEL Inc.Retail — wireless and mobile devicesWorldwide HQglobal—Burnaby, British ColumbiaCareers →
Hemlock Printers Ltd.Printing — offset and digitalWorldwide HQglobal—Burnaby, British Columbia—
LMI Technologies Inc.Machine vision — 3D smart sensors for manufacturingWorldwide HQglobal—Burnaby, British ColumbiaCareers →
Nano One Materials Corp.Clean technology — battery cathode materialsWorldwide HQglobal—Burnaby, British ColumbiaCareers →
Oxygen8 Solutions Inc.Clean technology — energy-recovery ventilation (HVAC)Worldwide HQglobal—Burnaby, British ColumbiaCareers →
Svante TechnologiesClean technology — carbon capture filters and machinesWorldwide HQglobal—Burnaby, British ColumbiaCareers →
Taiga Building Products Ltd.Wholesale — building materials distributionWorldwide HQglobal—Burnaby, British ColumbiaCareers →
Tantalus SystemsSmart-grid technology — utility metering networks and softwareWorldwide HQglobal—Burnaby, British ColumbiaCareers →
UniliaClean technology — hydrogen fuel cell stacks and engineering servicesWorldwide HQglobal—Burnaby, British Columbia—
Vybe NetworkSoftware — Solana blockchain data and analyticsWorldwide HQglobal—Burnaby, British Columbia—
Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc.Biopharmaceuticals — neurologyWorldwide HQglobal—Burnaby, British ColumbiaCareers →
D-Wave Quantum (Canadian operations, D-Wave Systems)Quantum computing systems and cloud servicepart of D-Wave Quantum Inc.National HQCanada (Quantum Engineering Center of Excellence)—Palo Alto, CaliforniaCareers →
Watersprint Canada (Acuva)Water technology — UV-LED disinfectionpart of Watersprint ABNational HQCanada (regional office)—Lund, Sweden—
Metro Vancouver (Metro Vancouver Regional District)Public administration — regional water, wastewater, solid waste, parks, housingRegional HQMetro Vancouver region (21 municipalities, one electoral area, one treaty First Nation)—Burnaby, British ColumbiaCareers →
Pacific Blue CrossInsurance — health, dental and travel benefitsRegional HQBritish Columbia—Burnaby, British ColumbiaCareers →
BC Hydro — Burnaby (Edmonds) officeUtilities — electric powerpart of BC Hydro (British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority)Major site—Vancouver, British Columbia—
Burnaby Public LibraryLibrariesMajor site—Burnaby, British Columbia—
Electronic Arts — EA VancouverVideo game development and publishingpart of Electronic Arts Inc.Major site—Redwood City, CaliforniaCareers →
Fraser Health — Burnaby HospitalHealth care — hospitalpart of Fraser Health AuthorityMajor site—Surrey, British Columbia—
STEMCELL TechnologiesBiotechnology — cell-culture media and research toolsMajor site—Vancouver, British ColumbiaCareers →
TELUS — Burnaby officesTelecommunicationspart of TELUS CorporationMajor site—Vancouver, British ColumbiaCareers →
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Notes on this record

  • The City of Burnaby's 2025 Annual Municipal Report prints a 'Burnaby's Top Employers 2025' table taken from the 2025 BC's Top Employers competition. It lists only organisations that entered that competition, so it is not a ranking of Burnaby's largest employers by headcount. Its counts are as listed and are often organisation-wide. Its 17 rows are Ausenco Engineering Canada 578, BC Housing 1,220, Binary Stream Software 83, BCAA 1,453, BCIT 2,275, BC Liquor Distribution Branch 3,071, City of Burnaby 2,003, Clio 913, DP World (Canada) 388, Engineers and Geoscientists BC 148, ETRO Construction 116, Greater Vancouver Food Bank 66, Interfor 2,458, NTT DATA BCU 451, Simon Fraser University 3,572, SkyBox Labs 281 and United Way British Columbia 200.
  • Blocked or not recorded. These organisations are left out because we could not open their own sites. Clio, Burnaby's largest software company, is on the City's table at 913 employees and has had very large venture rounds, which are not recorded here because no source page was opened. clio.com returned a Cloudflare challenge (403). Kardium (medical devices, venture-backed, with Burnaby manufacturing): kardium.com robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot. Fortinet (large Burnaby R&D site): fortinet.com robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot. Trans Mountain (Burnaby terminal): its robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot. Qu Biologics: its robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot. Inverite: about page disallowed. Best Buy Canada: bestbuy.ca's contact page returned Akamai 'Access Denied', and Best Buy's 10-K does not name Burnaby, so we have no source for its Canadian head office. Gateway Casinos: robots.txt returned 403. United Way BC: robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot. Engineers and Geoscientists BC: Cloudflare challenge. ETRO Construction, pH7 Technologies and TrendiTech: no response to robots.txt. Burnaby Board of Trade, the Canada's Top 100 review pages and the Burnaby RCMP detachment site also did not respond to robots.txt. bctechnology.com disallows ClaudeBot. BusinessWire returned 403.
  • Checked and excluded because they are not in Burnaby. General Fusion's contact page gives Richmond, BC. Clarius Mobile Health and INETCO each say on their own sites that they are in Vancouver. INETCO is still on PacifiCan's list of Burnaby businesses. RB Global's 10-K does not name Burnaby.
  • We found few funded software and tech companies headquartered in Burnaby that we could verify, because the two largest (Clio and Kardium) block our crawler. Startup directories such as VCBacked and StartupBlink were used only as leads. Their Burnaby lists include companies based elsewhere, such as General Fusion and Clarius.
  • PacifiCan contributions to Binary Stream, ARTMS, Garibaldi Glass and Oxygen8 are federal government funding, not venture funding, so they are mentioned in employeesNote and not in the funding field.
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Sources

Prepared 2026-10-30. Each headcount links to the page it is read from; each company to its own site or its /company page.