Methodology

For the list, LinkedIn used its own data to rank companies based on eight pillars "that have been shown to lead to career progression."

These eight pillars are:

• Ability to advance, which tracks employee promotions within a company and when they move to a new company, based on standardized job titles.
• Skills growth, which looks at how employees across the company are gaining skills while employed, using standardized LinkedIn skills.
• Company stability, which tracks attrition over the past year and the percentage of employees that stay at the company for at least three years.
• External opportunity, which tracks recruiter outreach across employees at the company, signaling demand for workers coming from those companies.
• Company affinity, which measures how supportive a company's culture is by looking at connection volume on LinkedIn among employees, controlled for a company's size.
• Gender diversity, which measures gender parity within a company and its subsidiaries.
• Educational background, which looks at the variety of educational attainment among employees, from no degree to Ph.D. levels.
• Employee presence, which looks at the company's number of employees in the country relative to other companies as a way to capture companies that provide a diverse work environment and more opportunities for career advancement and networking.

The 10 healthcare companies who made the list

The list included 10 healthcare companies:

12. UnitedHealth Group** (Eden Prairie, MN)

15. CVS Health (Woonsocket, RI)

22. Roche* (Basel, Switzerland)

24. Eli Lilly & Co.* (Indianapolis, IN)

36. Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Boston, MA)

37. Kaiser Permanente* (Oakland, CA)

38. Edwards Lifesciences* (Irvine, CA)

41. Abbott* (Abbott Park, IL)

42. Regeneron (Tarrytown, NY)

43. Moderna (Cambridge, MA)

*Denotes Advisory Board member

**Advisory Board is a subsidiary of Optum, a division of UnitedHealth Group. All Advisory Board research, expert perspectives, and recommendations remain independent.