8 WA Companies Ranked Among Forbes’ ‘America’s Best Large Employers’

SEATTLE — Workers in the Evergreen State are in a position to be more choosey about where they work with the historically low 3.4 percent unemployment rates, according to Forbes, which on Wednesday released its annual list of “America’s Best Large Employers.”

The business magazine partnered with the market research firm Statista to compile the ranking, based on a survey of about 45,000 workers at companies and institutions with 5,000 or more employees.

They were asked questions such as whether they would recommend their current workplace to family or friends and were also given the chance to cite other employers they would recommend. The 500 large employers on the list are those that received the most recommendations.

The Washington companies that made the top 100 are:

• #8: Microsoft (Redmond)
• #25: Costco Wholesale (Issaquah)
• #76: University of Washington (Seattle)

Here are the other employers that made the full list:

• #146: Alaska Airlines (Seattle)
• #282: Starbucks (Seattle)
• #345: Nordstrom (Seattle)
• #375: Amazon (Seattle)
• #385: T-Mobile (Bellevue)

Nationally, the Top 10 large employers on Forbes’ list are:

1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. Houston Methodist (Texas)
3. Mayo Clinic (Minnesota)
4. BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
5. H-E-B (Texas)
6. University of Kentucky
7. Fidelity Investments (Massachusetts)
8. Microsoft (Washington)
9. In-N-Out Burger (California)
10. Cincinnati Children’s (Ohio)

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