10 CA Companies Among America’s Best Employers: Forbes

CALIFORNIA — In-N-Out Burger, Google and NVIDIA are the best employers with headquarters in The Golden State, according to a new ranking from Forbes.

The Forbes report, America’s Best Employers By State, is based on a survey of more than 160,000 employees of companies with at least 500 people working in U.S. operations.

The survey, conducted by the market research firm Statista, asked participants how likely they were on a scale of zero to 10 to recommend their employer as a good place to work. Respondents were also asked to evaluate employers they’d worked for within the past two years and organizations they knew within their industry or through friends or family who worked there.

By those measures, the top 10 employers with headquarters in California are:

1. In-N-Out Burger, based in Irvine with 27,000 employees; Lynsi Snyder is the CEO of the company, founded in 1948.
2. Google, based in Mountain View with 190,711 employees; Sundar Pichai is the CEO of the company, founded in 1998.
3. NVIDIA, based in Santa Clara with 26,196 employees; Jensen Huang is the CEO of the company, founded in 1993.
4. Apple, based in Cupertino with 161,000 employees; Tim Cook is the CEO of the company, founded in 1976.
5. Caltech, based in Pasadena with 2,500 employees; Thomas F. Rosenbaum is the president of the university, founded in 1891.
6. Linkedin, based in Sunnyvale with 18,500 employees; Ryan Roslansky is the CEO of the company, founded in 2002.
7. Stanford University, based in Stanford with 18,369 employees; Richard Saller is the president of the university founded in 1891.
8. The Aerospace Corporation, based in El Segundo; Steven J. Isakowitz is the CEO of the company, founded in 1960.
9. UC Davis Health, based in Sacramento with 11,600 employees; David Lubarsky is the CEO of the company, founded in 1973.
10. University of California, Irvine, based in Irvine with 19,378 employees; Howard Gilman is the chancellor of the university, founded in 1965.

Workers from all 50 states and the District of Columbia answered the most recent survey. Those findings were supplemented with data from the previous three surveys. In all, 1,294 organizations made the final cut.

Those in the final list are performing well with workers for their employee retention efforts, according to Forbes.

“When employees are in their roles for longer, leaders need to consider how they can ensure that they are providing challenges and development opportunities for that member of the staff to keep them engaged, satisfied, and productive,” Becky Wallace, head of people at LearnUpon, a corporate learning platform, told Forbes.

The report found that fewer than 50 percent of workers think their employer invests in the skills they need to advance.