Dozens Of TX Companies Were Ranked Among Forbes’ Best Employers

TEXAS — Workers gave high marks to a few dozen companies headquartered in Texas in a survey for Forbes’ 10th-anniversary edition of its America’s Best Large Employers and America’s Best Midsize Employers rankings.

The rankings are 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 list for midsize companies includes those with between 1,000 and 5,000 employees. Large companies are those with 5,000 or more workers.

Texas-based companies in Forbes’ America’s Best Large Employers List include:

• 3 – Houston Methodist
• 22 – Cook Children's Health Care System
• 27 – Baptist Health System (TX)
• 32 – MD Anderson Cancer Center
• 36 – CMC
• 54 – Southwest Airlines
• 55 – H-E-B Grocery Company
• 69 – Conroe Independent School District
• 71 – Toyota North America
• 100 – Texas Health Resources
• 105 – Memorial Hermann Health System
• 115 – Stewart Info Services
• 119 – Children’s Health
• 186 – CHRISTUS Health
• 192 – Kimberly-Clark
• 195 – D.R. Horton
• 196 – Occidental Petroleum
• 202 – Goodman Manufacturing
• 212 – Topgolf
• 220 – Baylor College of Medicine
• 221 – Enterprise Products
• 235 – University of Texas, Austin
• 250 – Charles Schwab
• 257 – Waste Connections
• 270 – Lennox International
• 277 – Atmos Energy
• 287 – Lone Star College
• 288 – Dell Technologies
• 294 – ConocoPhillips
• 302 – USAA
• 317 – Texas A&M University, College Station
• 337 – McKesson
• 378 – City of Austin
• 394 – Jason's Deli
• 425 – LyondellBasell
• 439 – Texas Instruments
• 441 – Tyler Technologies
• 448 – Rackspace
• 490 – Keller Williams Realty
• 517 – Primoris Services
• 520 – Westlake Chemical
• 534 – Jacobs Solutions
• 581 – Alcon
• 596 – Brinker International
• 597 – Energy Transfer
• 611 – NRG Energy
• 638 – KBR
• 639 – Shell Plc
• 651 – Cinemark Holdings
• 667 – Dave & Buster's
• 685 – Keurig Dr Pepper
• 695 – Phillips 66

Texas-based companies in the news outlet’s America’s Best Midsize Employers list include:

• 37: Vizient
• 61: Blue Bell Creameries
• 84: Comal Independent School District
• 87: Insperity
• 109: Austin Community College District
• 129: Goose Creek Consolidated Independent School District
• 133: Central Texas College
• 151: United Regional Health Care System
• 163: Houston Community College
• 185: Interstate Batteries
• 227: The City of Plano
• 271: The Container Store
• 283: CPS Energy
• 348: HKS Architects
• 380: Q2
• 382: Chevron Phillips Chemical
• 394: Targa Resources
• 436: Texas Workforce Commission
• 444: Huntsman
• 489: Boardwalk Pipeline Partners

Forbes’ said that for 10 years, its best employers lists have tracked 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.

At the same time, Forbes said, research has shown 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.

Forbes and the research firm Statista surveyed 217,000 workers at companies with 1,000 or more employees. They 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, if within the past two years, and employers they knew through their industry experience or through friends or family who worked there.

The results were tallied and analyzed alongside data from the last three years, which Forbes said 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.

The 1,199 organizations that made the final cut included 490 midsize companies and 701 large companies.