4 MD Companies Ranked Among ‘America’s Best Large Employers’: Forbes

MARYLAND — Workers in Maryland 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.

The Maryland companies that made the top 100 are:

• Johns Hopkins Medicine, (ranked 20th overall with 27,000 employees)
• Lockheed Martin, (ranked 46th overall with 106,020 employees)
• Marriott International, (ranked 57th overall with 97,000 employees)
• Johns Hopkins University, (ranked 95th overall with 50,000 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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