17 Connecticut Employers Make Forbes Top 500 List

Forbes Magazine has surveyed 30,000 workers in the United States who work for companies that employ more than 5,000 people and they’ve identified a list of the top 500 “America’s Best Employers.”

The good news is Connecticut has 17 such companies, though one of them is leaving for Boston, General Electric.

According to workers, the top 5 best major companies to work for are: Marathon Petroleum in Findlay, Ohio, No. 2, Google in Mountain View, California, No. 3, Costco Wholesale in Issaquah, Washington, Wegmans Food Market in Rochester, New York, and United Services Auto Association in San Antonio, Texas.

Facebook cracked the list at No. 11.

Here’s where Connecticut’s major companies ranked among the top 500 Forbes list: (click on the hyperlink to read more about each company)

No. 27 Yale New Haven Health in New Haven

No. 76 State of Connecticut in Hartford

No. 99 Sikorsky in Stratford

No. 165 Praxair in Danbury

No. 185 Lego Group in Enfield

No. 189 Pratt and Whitney in Hartford

No. 200 EMCOR Group in Norwalk

No. 228 General Electric in Fairfield

No. 299 Synchrony Financial in Stamford

No. 321 Starwood Hotels in Stamford

No. 371 Eversource Energy in Hartford

No. 375 Cigna in Bloomfield

No. 392 Henkel in Rocky Hill

No. 418 WR Berkley in Greenwich

No. 419 Travelers In Hartford

No. 440 Aetna in Hartford

No. 478 Pitney Bowes in Stamford

If you’re interested in seeing if any of these top employers are hiring in Connecticut check out the Patch Jobs board here. In the keyword section just type in the name of the company like this “Sikorsky” and change the location to just Connecticut.

Photo credit for the Lego portion: Doug Kerr/Flickr Commons