Forbes 2025 America's Best Large Employers List

For the past 10 years, Forbes has ranked America’s Best Employers—tracking companies and organizations as they’ve navigated an era of lightning-speed technological innovation, economic and geopolitical instability, a global pandemic that prompted drastic changes in how and where we do business, and cultural and generational shifts that have amalgamated the composition of the country’s adult workforce.

Throughout all the changes, however, research over the past decade has shown that employees have remained relatively steadfast when asked what they care about most in an employer: compensation, employee development and advancement opportunities, meaningful work, supportive colleagues, and workplace well-being and flexibility. Most recently, a global survey of business leaders conducted in 2024 by AESC—a membership association for the industry of executive search and leadership consulting—found that the top factors that attract and retain leaders in the United States workforce are, once again, compensation packages and work-life balance.

To assess which employers met or exceeded workers’ expectations this year, Forbes partnered with market research firm Statista to produce our 10th anniversary editions of America’s Best Midsize Employers and America’s Best Large Employers. The annual rankings were based primarily on survey responses from more than 217,000 employees working at companies within the U.S. that employ more than 1,000 people. The organizations were stratified so that companies with 1,000 to 5,000 employees were deemed midsize, while companies with more than 5,000 employees were considered large employers.

Survey respondents (who remained anonymous so they could answer freely) were asked if they would recommend their employer to others and to rate it based on a range of criteria, including salary, work environment, training programs and opportunities to advance. Participants were also asked if they would recommend their previous employers (within the past two years) and the employers they knew through their industry experience or through friends or family who worked there.

The responses were tallied and analyzed along with additional survey data from the last three years, which allowed for a robust assessment of organizations that consistently ranked well versus those that may have had just one good year. The more recent data and the evaluations from current employees were weighted more heavily than others.

Ultimately, each employer was given a score, and the 1,199 organizations with the highest scores landed on one of our two final lists—498 companies on America’s Best Midsize Employers 2025, and 701 organizations on America’s Best Large Employers 2025. A select group of 77 employers (including Google, Trader Joe’s, Costco, Nike, Ford and the Mayo Clinic) also distinguished themselves by making America’s Best Employer lists for all ten editions.

To see our full list of America’s Best Large Employers 2025, scroll directly below.

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