Methodology

For the overall Best Companies to Work For list, U.S. News considered a mix of publicly traded companies, privately owned companies, and nonprofit organizations with global headquarters in the United States.

Companies eligible for the public companies list were companies in the Russell 3000 index as of June 2023 with a minimum of 75 U.S.-based Glassdoor reviews between 2020 and 2023.

Meanwhile, companies eligible for the private companies list were nonpublicly traded companies with more than 5,000 employees and more than $500 million in annual revenue, as defined by Crunchbase, U.S. News' data provider. These companies must also have at least 75 U.S.-based Glassdoor reviews between 2020 and 2023. Any companies that are owned or funded by one or more public companies or subsidiaries of public companies were disqualified from the private companies list.

For both the public and private companies lists, U.S. News calculated a score for each company, looking at six metrics and gathering data from Revelio Labs, Good Jobs First, and publicly available benefits data:

• ·Quality of pay and benefits (weighted at 23.35% for the public companies list and 22.99% for the private companies list)
• Work/life balance and flexibility (weighted at 20.96% for the public companies list and 20.57% for the private companies list)
• Job and company stability (weighted at 17.55% for the public companies list and 17.5% for the private companies list)
• Physical and psychological comfort (weighted at 16.02% for the public companies list and 16.27% for the private companies list)
• Belongingness and esteem (weighted at 11.08% for the public companies list and 11.53% for the private companies list)
•  Career opportunities and professional development (weighted at 11.04% for the public companies list and 11.14% for the private companies list)

The best public healthcare companies to work for

The companies on U.S. News' Best Companies to Work For: Public Companies list under the category of pharmaceutical and health products were:

• Agilent (Santa Clara, CA)
• Amgen (Thousand Oaks, CA)
• BioMarin (San Rafael, CA)
• Biogen (Cambridge, MA)
• Boston Scientific (Marlborough, MA)
• Bristol Myers Squibb (Princeton, NJ)
• Certara (Princeton, NJ)
• Elanco (Greenfield, IN)
• GE Healthcare (Chicago, IL)
• Gilead (Foster City, CA)
• Henry Schein (Melville, NY)
• Hologic (Marlborough, MA)
• Illumina (San Diego, CA)
• Intuitive (Sunnyvale, CA)
• Lilly (Indianapolis, IN)
• Medtronic (Dublin, Ireland)
• Organon (Jersey City, NJ)
• Recursion Pharmaceuticals (Salt Lake City, UT)
• Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (Tarrytown, NY)
• Relay Therapeutics (Cambridge, MA)
• ResMed (San Diego, CA)
• Sage Therapeutics (Cambridge, MA)
• Sarepta Therapeutics (Cambridge, MA)
• Stryker (Portage, MI)
• Teleflex (Wayne, PA)
• Vertex (Boston, MA)
• Zynex Medical (Englewood, CO)

The companies on U.S. News' Best Companies to Work For: Public Companies list under the category of health services were:

• 23andMe (San Francisco, CA)
• Doximity (San Francisco, CA)
• Elevance Health (Indianapolis, IN)
• Health Catalyst (South Jordan, UT)
• HealthEquity (Draper, UT)
• HealthStream (Nashville, TN)
• Humana (Louisville, KY)
• NRC Health (Lincoln, NE)
• Pennant Group (Eagle, ID)
• Premier (Charlotte, NC)
• Privia Health (Arlington, VA)
• UFG Insurance (Cedar Rapids, IA)

The best private healthcare companies to work for

There were no companies under the pharmaceutical and health products category on U.S. News' Best Companies to Work For: Private Companies list. However, the private companies that made the list under that category of health services were:

• Arthex (Naples, FL)
• Athenahealth (Boston, MA)
• Aya Healthcare (San Diego, CA)
• Benco Dental (Pittston, PA)
• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee (Chattanooga, TN)
• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (Boston, MA)
• Blue Shield of California (San Francisco, CA)
• Cambia Health Solutions (Portland, OR)
• Cotiviti (Atlanta, GA)
• Direct Supply (Milwaukee, NC)
• GuideWell (Jacksonville, FL)
• Medica (Minnetonka, MN)
• Mission Veterinary Partners (Novi, MI)
• Smile Brands (Irvine, CA)
• Southern Veterinary Partners (Birmingham, AL)

(U.S. News & World Report Best Companies to Work For list, accessed 9/18; Best Companies to Work For methodology, accessed 9/18; U.S. News & World Report press release, 9/17)

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