(The Center Square) – A new survey of employees who work for large employers ranks Houston County Schools the best organization to work for in Georgia, according to an analysis by the Forbes website.
The second annual Forbes list of top employers, which is based on a survey of 80,000 workers nationwide, consists of 51 separate rankings, one for each of the 50 states and Washington, D.C. Only employers with at least 500 workers on their payrolls were included in the survey.
Houston County Schools, which has about 3,000 employees, is headquartered in Perry, Forbes reports.https://ad4c1b406dbb13745b6d84e46c717b73.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-37/html/container.html
The surveys were carried out between October 2019 and May 2020, so employee opinions were collected before and after the coronavirus pandemic spread to the United States, according to Forbes. Forbes worked with the market research firm Statista to process the employee data.
Companies that showed up on multiple state lists of best employers tended to have the most widespread operations, such as FedEx, the survey found. And public agencies, such as the Department of Defense, tended to dominate the state lists, the publication reported.
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The Forbes List of the Best Employer in Each State
State Company Employees Headquarters Chief Executive Order Year Founded Alabama University of Alabama, Birmingham 23,000 Birmingham, Ala. Ray L. Watts 1969 Alaska ConocoPhillips 5,304 Houston, Texas Ryan M. Lance 1875 Arizona United Services Automobile Association (USAA) 34,000 San Antonio, Texas Wayne Peacock 1922 Arkansas Entergy 13,000 New Orleans Leo P. Denault 1913 California Delta Air Lines 88,680 Atlanta Edward Herman Bastian 1924 Colorado Boulder Valley School District 3,680 Boulder, Colo. Rob Anderson 1960 Connecticut ESPN 6,500 Bristol, Conn. James Pitaro 1979 Delaware ChristianaCare 11,856 Wilmington, Del. Janice Nevin 1888 District of Columbia Microsoft 92,335 Redmond, Wash. Satya Nadella 1975 Florida Costco Wholesale 163,000 Issaquah, Wash. Walter Craig Jelinek 1983 Georgia Houston County Schools About 3,000 Perry, Ga. Mark Scott 1870 Hawaii Marriott International 133,227 Bethesda, Md. Arne M. Sorenson, Fumio Takashima 1927 Idaho MDU Resources Group, 13,359 Bismarck, N.D. David L. Goodin 1924 Illinois Northwestern Medicine 33,700 Chicago Dean M. Harrison 1859 Indiana Salesforce.com 36,000 San Francisco Marc Russell Benioff 1999 Iowa Principal Financial Group 10,000 Des Moines, Iowa Daniel Joseph Houston 1879 Kansas Blue Valley Schools N/A Overland Park, Kan. Cindy Bowling 1965 Kentucky Fayette County Public Schools (KY) 5,902 Lexington, Ky. Manny Caulk N/A Louisiana Stuller 1,000-plus Lafayette, La. Matt Stuller 1970 Maine L.L. Bean 5,400 Freeport, Maine Stephen M. Smith 1912 Maryland Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) 10,000 Washington, D.C. Paul Wiedefeld 1967 Massachusetts Boston Children’s Hospital N/A Boston Sandra L. Fenwick 1869 Michigan Grand Valley State University 3,000 Allendale, Mich. Philomena Mantella 1960 Minnesota Presbyterian Homes and Services 6,000 St. Paul, Minn. Dan Lindh 195 Mississippi Rankin County School District 2,130 Brandon, Miss. Sue Townsend 1940 Missouri Veterans United 2,379 Columbia, Mo. Nathan Long 2002 Montana Costco Wholesale 163,000 Issaquah, Wash. Walter Craig Jelinek 1983 Nebraska Lincoln Public Schools 8,170 Lincoln, Neb. Dr. Steve Joel 1871 Nevada Las Vegas Valley Water District 1,250 Las Vegas Marilyn Kirkpatrick 1954 New Hampshire Southern New Hampshire University 6,297 Manchester, N.H. Paul J. LeBlanc 1932 New Jersey Apple 90,000 Cupertino, Calif. Tim Cook 1976 New Mexico Home Depot 400,000 Atlanta Craig A. Menear 1978 New York Amtrak 19,600 Washington, D.C. Richard H. Anderson 1971 North Carolina SAS Institute 6,908 Cary, N.C. Jim Goodnight 1976 North Dakota United Parcel Service 399,000 Atlanta David P. Abney 1907 Ohio Procter & Gamble 97,000 Cincinnati David S. Taylor 1837 Oklahoma ConocoPhillips 5,304 Houston Ryan M. Lance 1875 Oregon Alaska Airlines 23,000 Seattle, Wash. Brad Tilden 1932 Pennsylvania Carnegie Mellon University 6,077 Pittsburgh Farnam Jahanian 1848 Rhode Island International Game Technology (IGT) 12,100 Las Vegas Marco Sala 1974 South Carolina Southeastern Freight Lines 6,600 Lexington, S.C. W.T. Cassels III 1950 South Dakota Midcontinent Communications 1,000 Sioux Falls, S.D. Pat McAdaragh 1931 Tennessee 3M 37,412 St. Paul, Minn. Michael F. Roman 1902 Texas H-E-B 90,000 San Antonio Charles Butt 1905 Utah University of Utah Health Care 8,000 Salt Lake City Gordon Crabtree 1965 Vermont Middlebury College N/A Middlebury, Vt. Laurie Patton 1800 Virginia Raytheon Technologies 67,000 Waltham, Mass. Gregory J. Hayes 1922 Washington Northern Quest Resort & Casino 1,000-plus Airway Heights, Wash. Nick Pierre 2000 West Virginia Toyota North America 179,000 Plano, Texas Akio Toyoda 1933 Wisconsin ProHealth Care 4,700 Waukesha, Wis. Susan Edwards 1914 Wyoming State of Wyoming 15,100 Cheyenne, Wyo. Mark Gordon 1890
Source: Forbes.com
