12 MA Companies Ranked Among Forbes’ ‘America’s Best Large Employers’

MASSACHUSETTS — Workers in Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts companies that made the top 100 are:

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ranking #1 out of 500)
• Fidelity Investments (Ranking #7 out of 500)
• Mass General Brigham (Ranking #94 out of 500)

All 12 of the Massachusetts companies on the list of 500 are:

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ranking #1 out of 500)
• Fidelity Investments (Ranking #7 out of 500)
• Mass General Brigham (Ranking #94 out of 500)
• Raytheon Technologies (Ranking #106 out of 500)
• Thermo Fisher Scientific (Ranking #157 out of 500)
• Boston Scientific (Ranking #160 out of 500)
• Harvard University (Ranking #233 out of 500)
• General Electric (Ranking #251 out of 500)
• Liberty Mutual Insurance (Ranking #367 out of 500)
• Talbots (Ranking #329 out of 500)
• New Balance (Ranking #357 out of 500)
• MassMutual (Ranking #415 out of 500)

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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