(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
