America’s Greatest Workplaces for Job Starters 2024

By Ed Barredo

Getting a career started is never easy. First-day stumbling blocks can give way to larger questions about choosing the right career path. Imposter syndrome, information overload, the challenge of new colleagues: it's almost enough to make you miss the routine of sending out endless résumés to online job descriptions.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in December 2023 that there were more job openings than applicants (with 0.7 applicants per opening), a trend that has held since May 2021. That means the landscape favors people on the lookout for work. But even with an abundance of open positions, people just entering the workforce should consider their options carefully, to get a real sense of which companies will help them flourish as they begin their careers.

To help improve the job-finding process, Newsweek has partnered with Plant-A, a data intelligence firm, for the second annual ranking of companies that excel at hiring people getting their careers off the ground. The data, divided into small, medium and large segments based on each company's size, is compiled from responses from workers with less than five total years of employment experience who are currently at companies with more than 500 employees.

This survey aims to benefit people early in their career by surfacing companies that could be a good fit for them. It presents a portrait across industries—including advertising and marketing, engineering, health care and software firms, among others—to highlight companies that are making the best moves to attract fresh talent.

We hope the ranking serves as a resource for helping to find matches between job starters and the companies looking to hire them.

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America’s Greatest Workplaces for Job Starters 2024

Star Rating

Company

Industry

Employees

Size Category

Revenue Category

HQ State

Year Founded

Company Profile

★★★★155 East Tropicana Hotels, Resorts, Casinos & Cruise Lines500-999Small-size company100m to 1bNevada2004★★★★½1st Franklin Financial Consumer Finance1,000-4,999Mid-size company100m to 1bGeorgia1941★★★★★2020 CompaniesBusiness Support Services5,000+Large-size company100m to 1bTexas1988★★★★½21st Century HealthCareConsumer Products500-999Small-size company100m to 1bArizona1991★★★★5.11Apparel, Footwear & Accessories500-999Small-size company100m to 1bCalifornia2003★★★★A & E Health ServicesHealth Care Providers500-999Small-size company5m to 100mMaryland★★★★A Caring Heart Case ManagementHealth Care Providers500-999Small-size company5m to 100mNorth Carolina2005★★★★A Place For MomHealth Care Services500-999Small-size company100m to 1bWashington2000★★★★A&T Health CareHealth Care Services500-999Small-size company5m to 100mNew York2020★★★★A&Z PharmaceuticalPharmaceuticals500-999Small-size company100m to 1bNew York1995★★★★★A.J. Kirkwood & Associates (AJK)Commercial & Industrial Engineering500-999Small-size company100m to 1bCalifornia1886★★★★★A.S.G. StaffingHuman Resources & Employment Services500-999Small-size company100m to 1bIllinois1995★★★★½A10 NetworksCommercial Products & Office Supplies500-999Small-size company100m to 1bCalifornia2004★★★★★A2 Global Electronics + SolutionsIndustrial Distributors500-999Small-size company100m to 1bFlorida2020★★★★½AAA LandscapeBusiness Support Services500-999Small-size company5m to 100mArizona1975★★★★½AAA StaffingHuman Resources & Employment Services500-999Small-size company5m to 100mTexas1998★★★★½AARAerospace & Defense1,000-4,999Mid-size company1b to 10bIllinois1955★★★★★Aaron Thomas CompanyPackaging & Containers500-999Small-size company100m to 1bCalifornia1973★★★★★AATA InternationalCommercial & Industrial Engineering500-999Small-size company100m to 1bColorado1989★★★★½Abacus Service Human Resources & Employment Services500-999Small-size company5m to 100mMichigan2004★★★★★ABB ElectrificationIndustrial Products5,000+Large-size company100m to 1bNorth Carolina1988★★★★½ABBA Staffing and ConsultingHuman Resources & Employment Services500-999Small-size company5m to 100mTexas2001★★★★½Abbyland Foods Food & Beverage Producers500-999Small-size company100m to 1bWisconsin1977★★★★½Abby'sRestaurants500-999Small-size company5m to 100mOregon1964★★★★½ABC Bus CompaniesCommercial Equipment & Supplies Distributors500-999Small-size company100m to 1bMinnesota1950★★★★½ABC Home &mmercial ServicesSpecialized Consumer Services500-999Small-size company100m to 1bTexas1973★★★★½Abrazo Community Health NetworkHealth Care Providers5,000+Large-size company100m to 1bArizona2003★★★★½Abt GlobalProfessional Services1,000-4,999Mid-size company100m to 1bMassachusetts1965★★★★AC&T CoConvenience Stores & Gas Stations500-999Small-size company100m to 1bMaryland1959★★★★★ACAC Fitness and Wellness CentersLeisure Facilities1,000-4,999Mid-size company5m to 100mVirginia1984★★★★★Academy BusPassenger Transportation1,000-4,999Mid-size company100m to 1bNew Jersey1968★★★★★Academy MortgageConsumer Finance1,000-4,999Mid-size company100m to 1bUtah1988★★★★½Acadia HealthcareHealth Care Providers5,000+Large-size company1b to 10bTennessee2005★★★★★Acadian CompaniesHealth Care Services1,000-4,999Mid-size company100m to 1bLouisiana1971★★★★★Accel EntertainmentHotels, Resorts, Casinos & Cruise Lines500-999Small-size company100m to 1bIllinois2017★★★★★AccentCareHealth Care Providers5,000+Large-size company1b to 10bTexas1999★★★★★AccessBusiness Support Services1,000-4,999Mid-size company100m to 1bMassachusetts2004Visit Profile★★★★★Access DMCBusiness Support Services500-999Small-size company100m to 1bCalifornia1969★★★★★Accountable Healthcare StaffingHealth Care Services1,000-4,999Mid-size company100m to 1bFlorida1999★★★★★Accu StaffingHuman Resources & Employment Services500-999Small-size company100m to 1bNew Jersey1979★★★★ACE Cash ExpressConsumer Finance1,000-4,999Mid-size company100m to 1bTexas1968★★★★★Ace Parking ManagementBusiness Support Services1,000-4,999Mid-size company100m to 1bCalifornia1950★★★★½AcostaProfessional Services5,000+Large-size company1b to 5bFlorida★★★★½Ada TechnologiesAuto Parts500-999Small-size company100m to 1bOhio1995★★★★½Adams and AssociatesEducation Services1,000-4,999Mid-size company100m to 1bNevada1990★★★★½Adams Resources & EnergyFreight Transportation1,000-4,999Mid-size company100m to 1bTexas1947★★★★½Adapt HealthHealth Care Distributors5,000+Large-size company1b to 10bPennsylvania2013★★★★½Addison GroupHuman Resources & Employment Services1,000-4,999Mid-size company100m to 1bIllinois1999★★★★Addus HomeCareHealth Care Services5,000+Large-size company100m to 1bTexas1979★★★★½AdobeSoftware & Internet Services5,000+Large-size company10b+California1982

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METHODOLOGY

Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group are partnering for the second year to determine America's Greatest Workplaces for Job Starters 2024 recognizing the greatest workplaces in the United States by their performance on a range of relevant metrics from the perspective of job starters.

The methodology for America's Greatest Workplaces for Job Starters 2024 is based on a five-stage evaluation.

The first phase was a pre-study survey that interviewed HR professionals to identify current and future employee satisfaction drivers.

The second phase was the main employee survey among employees with up to 5 years working experience who reviewed employers they were familiar with. The independent study is based on more than 75,000 Job Starters who provide more than 540,000 company reviews collected in 2022 and 2023.

The third phase was an elaborate desk research project in which we collected overall 8 KPIs relevant for job starters in the workplace (e.g. reviews and information from social media platforms overall and with respect to career opportunities and a culture and management that fosters their career development).

In the fourth phase, we applied media monitoring, reviewing all published press of the past 24 months (12/9/2021 – 12/10/2023) of all recognized companies to identify potential legal disputes around the workplace.

The fifth step was the validation step. We calculated an individual company score based on our scoring model. The best companies in the tiers of 1,000 to 5,000+ employees and 500 to 999 employees have been recognized as "America's Greatest Workplaces for Job Starters 2024".

Click here to request the detailed methodology document.

The desk research was kindly supported by Onclusive, the leading media monitoring partner with its world-class sentiment technology. For Company related information we worked with PrivCo, a service that tracks private company financial information in a proprietary database. Additional resources for company data were ZoomInfo and Seamless AI.

Plant-A Insights Group has a strict no-pay-to-play policy. All awards are based on independent research and unbiased data analysis.

Disclaimer:

This work is based on primary and secondary market research and analysis of publicly available data or provided to Plant-A Insights Group LLC. Placement in the ranking is a positive recognition based on research of publicly available data sources at the time, the information provided in the validation survey and an extensive survey of employees in the U.S. in 2022 and 2023. The ranking is the result of a detailed research process which, due to the interval of data collection and analysis, is a reflection of data from the last 24 months. Furthermore, events following December 1, 2023, were not a subject of this ranking. Newsweek and Plant-A make no claim to the completeness of the companies examined. The results of this ranking should not be used as the sole source of information for future deliberations. The information provided in this ranking should be considered in conjunction with other available information. Plant-A nor any of its subsidiaries or their respective officers, directors, shareholders, employees or agents accept any responsibility or liability with respect to the use of or reliance on any information or analysis contained in this ranking. The quality of companies that are not included in the ranking is not disputed. This work may not be published, transmitted, broadcast, copied, reproduced or reprinted in whole or in part without the explicit written permission of Plant-A Insights Group LLC. Copyright © 2023 Plant-A Insights Group LLC. All rights reserved.