LinkedIn: Amazon, Lowe’s among top U.S. workplaces for career development

A retail giant is the most desirable workplace in the U.S. for the third consecutive year.

Amazon once again took the top spot on LinkedIn’s seventh annual Top Companies list, an annual list of the 50 U.S. companies that offer the best places for professionals to grow their careers.  Amazon has ranked among the top three in the ranking for six consecutive years, coming in at number one for three years straight.

Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Bank of America and Alphabet (parent company of Google) rounded out the top five.

The list highlights the 50 best U.S. workplaces, looking at how employees are advancing both within a company and when they leave, as well as how they’re upskilling while employed there. LinkedIn said it also looked deeper, considering factors like tenure, attrition and layoffs. (Companies that have laid off 10% or more of their workforce over the past 15 months are not eligible.)

Only one other retailer made the top 50: Lowe’s Cos., which came in at No. 28.

Here are this year’s 50 #LinkedInTopCompanies in the U.S. 

Methodology

To be eligible, companies must have had at least 500 employees as of Dec. 31, 2022 in the country and attrition can be no higher than 10% over the methodology time period, based on LinkedIn data. Similarly, companies with layoffs that amount to more than 10% of their workforce, based on public announcements between Jan. 1, 2022 and the list launch, are also ineligible.

Only parent companies rank on the list; majority-owned subsidiaries and data about those subsidiaries are incorporated into the parent company score. The methodology time frame is Jan. 1, 2022 through Dec. 31, 2022. This analysis represents the world seen through the lens of LinkedIn data, drawn from the anonymized and aggregated profile information of LinkedIn's members around the world.