These 10 FL Companies Are Among America’s Best Employers

FLORIDA — Jupiter Medical Center, Raymond James Financial and Chewy are the best employers with headquarters in Florida, 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 Florida are:

1. Jupiter Medical Center, a healthcare and social services company based in Jupiter; Amit Rastogi is the CEO of the company, founded in 1979.
2. Raymond James Financial, a banking and financial services company based in St. Petersburg with 18,000 employees; Paul C. Reilly is the CEO of the company, founded in 1962.
3. Chewy, a retail and wholesale company based in Dania Beach with 18,100 employees; Sumit Singh is the CEO of the company, founded in 2011.
4. Florida Blue, an insurance company based in Jacksonville with 8,706 employees; Patrick J. Geraghty is the CEO of the company, founded in 1945.
5. Florida Cancer Specialists and Research Institute, a healthcare and social services company based in Fort Myers with 8,706 employees; Nathan Walcker is the CEO of the company, founded in 1984.
6. Orlando Health, a healthcare and social services company based in Orlando with 25,000 employees; David Strong is the CEO of the company, founded in 1918.
7. University of South Florida, an education company based in Tampa with 15,837 employees; Rhea Law is the CEO of the company, founded in 1956.
8. NextEra Energy, a utilities company based in Juno Beach with 14,900 employees; John W. Ketchum is the CEO of the company, founded in 1984.
9. Publix Supermarkets, a retail and wholesale company based in Lakeland with 253,000 employees; Kevin Murphy is the CEO of the company, founded in 1930.
10. Royal Caribbean Group, a travel and leisure company based in Miami with 4,050 employees; Jason T. Liberty is the CEO of the company, founded in 1974.

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.