These 10 PA Companies Are Among America’s Best Employers

PENNSYLVANIA — Several universities, hospitals, and a chemical company are the best employers with headquarters in Pennsylvania, 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 Pennsylvania are:

1. Air Products and Chemicals, a construction, chemicals, and raw materials company based in Allentown with 5,980 employees; Seifi Ghasemi is the CEO of the company, which was founded in 1940.
2. The University of Pennsylvania, based in Philadelphia with 20,780 employees; J. Larry Jameson is the interim president of the university, which was founded in 1740.
3. St. Luke's University Health Network, a healthcare and social services organization based in Bethlehem with 20,000 employees; Richard A. Anderson is the CEO of the company, which was founded in 1872.
4. Penn Medicine, a healthcare and social services system based in Philadelphia with 40,000 employees; J. Larry Jameson is the interim president of the university, and Penn Medicine was founded in 1993.
5. The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, a healthcare and social services system with 18,865 employees; Madeline Bell is the CEO of the company, which was founded in 1855.
6. IKEA, a retail and wholesale company based in Conshohocken with 208,000 employees; Jesper Brodin is the CEO of the company, which was founded in 1985.
7. Penn State Health, a healthcare and social services system based in Hershey with 19,700 employees; Stephen Massini is the CEO of the company, which was founded in 1967.
8. Erie Insurance, an insurance provider based in Erie with 6,481 employees; Timothy G. NeCastro is the CEO of the company, which was founded in 1925.
9. Carnegie Mellon University, based in Pittsburgh with 6,303 employees; Farnam Jahanian is the CEO of the company, which was founded in 1900.
10. Evangelical Community Hospital, a healthcare and social services system based in Lewisburg with 1,900 employees; Kendra A. Aucker is the CEO of the company, which was founded in 1926.

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.

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