This Fort Worth company ranks No. 5 on Forbes list of best employers in Texas

Cooks Children’s Health Care System in Fort Worth was determined by Forbes as the No. 5 best employer in Texas .

Forbes compiled a list that includes every state and answers the question, “Which organizations are doing what it takes to retain their employees and keep them satisfied?”

They compiled their data with Statista by surveying 160,000 employees from all 50 states and Washington D.C. in companies with at least 500 members.

Cooks Children’s is a non-profit organization with over 60 primary, specialty and urgent care offices throughout the state. “At Cook Children’s, we believe that childhood should be simple. But when things get complicated, we also believe that every child has the right to the very best care possible,” a statement on its website says.

They were also ranked No. 90 on Forbes 2024 list of best employers for women.

The only other company on the Texas list with headquarters in Fort Worth is No. 101, GM Financial. It was founded in 1992 and now has 9,000 employees.

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Forbes’ top employers in Texas

The full Texas list of best employers is as follows.

1. Houston Methodist - 32,058 employees

2. Humana - 67,600 employees

3. H-E-B Grocery Company - 154,000 employees

4. Toyota North America - 59,000 employees

5. Cook Children’s Health Care System - 9,000 employees

6. Bechtel - 50,000 employees

7. Progressive - 61,400 employees

8. NASA - 18,671 employees

9. IKEA - 208,000 employees

10. Intel - 124,800 employees

11. MD Anderson Cancer Center - 24,498 employees

12. Chevron - 19,975 employees

13. Conroe Independent School District - 8,918 employees

14. Costco Wholesale - 208,000 employees

15. IBM - 282,200 employees

16. Kelsey-Seybold Clinic - 5,500 employees

17. Google - 190,711 employees

18. PNC Financial Services - 56,411 employees

19. Allegis Group - 20,000 employees

20. Cardinal Health - 30,500 employees

21. ADT Security Systems - 14,300 employees

22. Bank of America - 166,140 employees

23. Citigroup - 240,000 employees

24. Houston Community College - 5,200 employees

25. Marriott International - 117,000 employees

26. Alvin Independent School District - 3,473 employees

27. Verizon Communications - 93,806 employees

28. Microsoft - 221,000 employees

29. Capital One - 51,987 employees

30. Apple - 161,000 employees

31. Caterpillar - 113,000 employees

32. Foundever - 17,590 employees

33. Chick-fil-A - 140,000 employees

34. Cisco Systems - 80,000 employees

35. U.S. Department of Agriculture - 100,000 employees

36. Frost Bank - 5,495 employees

37. Tractor Supply - 50,000 employees

38. Labcorp - 59,630 employees

39. Memorial Hermann Health System - 30,000 employees

40. Baylor Scott & White Health - 49,000 employees

41. TELUS International - 75,000 employees

42. General Dynamics - 93,744 employees

43. McKesson - 35,000 employees

44. Austin Community College District - 5,000 employees

45. Texas Health Resources - 27,000 employees

46. Barnes & Noble - 11,850 employees

47. JPMorgan Chase - 186,751 employees

48. AdventHealth - 92,000 employees

49. DHL - 58,000 employees

50. American International Group - 8,064 employees

51. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs - 400,000 employees

52. General Motors - 91,000 employees

53. USAA - 37,000 employees

54. Applied Materials - 34,000 employees

55. CDW - 11,700 employees

56. Mesquite Independent School District - 5,152 employees

57. Bath & Body Works - 57,200 employees

58. UTMB Health - 12,000 employees

59. University of Texas, Austin - 21,000 employees

60. Booz Allen Hamilton - 31,100 employees

61. Occidental Petroleum - 11,678 employees

62. Kelly Services - 7,000 employees

63. Johnson & Johnson - 152,700 employees

64. Siemens USA - 42,000 employees

65. Baylor College of Medicine - 7,927 employees

66. Honeywell - 97,000 employees

67. Emerson - 86,700 employees

68. Schlumberger - 99,000 employees

69. United Rentals - 20,400 employees

70. Dell Technologies - 133,000 employees

71. Raytheon Technologies - 182,000 employees

72. Ryder System - 39,900 employees

73. Dollar General - 163,000 employees

74. SAIC - 24,000 employees

75. Kroger - 465,000 employees

76. Tesla - 127,855 employees

77. Southwest Airlines - 71,000 employees

78. ADT - 17,000 employees

79. Accenture - 721,000 employees

80. Ford Motor Company - 183,000 employees

81. Spectrum - 93,700 employees

82. Valero Energy - 9,800 employees

83. Bank of America - 210,000 employees

84. Staples - 40,000 employees

85. FedEx - 530,000 employees

86. KBR - 28,000 employees

87. ExxonMobil - 62,000 employees

88. NRG Energy - 6,100 employees

89. In-N-Out Burger - 30,000 employees

90. Johnson Controls - 100,000 employees

91. BAE Systems USA - 34,800 employees

92. DaVita - 70,000 employees

93. Wipro - 231,671 employees

94. Macy’s - 88,857 employees

95. US Foods - 29,000 employees

96. HP Inc. - 58,000 employees

97. L3Harris Technologies - 47,000 employees

98. Alcon - 24,389 employees

99. RTX - 129,499

100. UMC Health System - 4,900

101. GM Financial - 9,000

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