5 VA Companies Ranked Among ‘America’s Best Large Employers’: Forbes

VIRGINIA — Workers in Virginia are in a position to be more selective 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.

These 5 Virginia companies that made the top 100 are:

• Hilton, (ranked 26th overall with 360,000 employees)
• HII, (ranked 49th overall with 43,000 employees)
• Capital One, (ranked 52nd overall with 50,767 employees)
• Northrop Grumman, (ranked 61st overall with 90,000 employees)
• Navy Federal Credit Union, (ranked 72nd overall with 14,700 employees)

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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