Celebrating Pennsylvania’s Best Places to Work

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Central Penn Business Journal in partnership with Best Companies Group and Lehigh Valley Business, once again hosted its annual Best Places to Work in PA event.

Best Places to Work in PA 2024 was held at the Lancaster Mariott at Penn Square Hotel on Thursday, Dec. 12.

The event honored the state’s 134 best places to work, separated across three categories: small employers (15-99 U.S. employees; medium employers (100-249 U.S. employees); and large employers (250 or more U.S. employees).

“This year’s Best Places to Work in PA have established a positive environment for innovative teams to thrive. These organizations put their employees first by innovating new benefits and programs,” said Suzanne Fischer-Huettner, managing director of BridgeTower Media/Central Penn Business Journal and Lehigh Valley Business. “We are pleased to join with the Best Companies Group to recognize this year’s winners.”

CPBJ announced a list of the winners in September and the official ranking of the winners during the event.

Rankings were determined in two parts. The first consisted of evaluating each nominated company’s workplace policies, practices and demographics, worth approximately 25% of the total evaluation. The second part consisted of an employee survey to measure the employee experience, which consisted of 75% of the total. The combined scores determined the top companies and the final ranking.

Best Companies Group managed the overall registration and survey process, analyzed the data and used their expertise to determine the final rankings.

A full list of the winners, along with photos of the event, is available at the event’s landing page at https://www.cpbj.com/event/best-places-work-pa/

The event was emcee’d by Jaime Zepeda, executive vice president of Best Companies Group and Joel D. Smith, PM news anchor at CBS21 News in Harrisburg.

New to this year at Best Places to Work in PA was the Best Places Mastermind Seminar. The seminar was opened by Zepeda, who delved into the latest research by Best Companies Group on the state of employee engagement nationwide.

A panel of local experts then discussed their strategies for maintaining a thriving workforce and organization. The panelists included Meredith McCann, director of human resources and talent experience at JPL; Fran Vaughn, chief human resources officer at Mutual Benefit Group; and Susan Torchia Yohn, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, human resources director at Brown Plus.

Sponsors for the event included: Presenting Sponsor, Mutual Benefit Group; Reception Sponsor, Edwards Business Systems; Experience Sponsors, Brentwood, Capital BlueCross, Herculite and JWF Industries; Supporting Sponsors, D&H, Millers and Rochling.

This year’s Celebration Sponsors included: 1st Summit Bank, Acela Architects + Engineers, PC, Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc., Bank of Bird-In-Hand, Berkshire Systems Group, Inc., Boyer & Ritter LLC, Brown Plus, Commonwealth Charter Academy, Concurrent Technologies Corporation, Crothall Healthcare, Diamond Credit Union, DOCEO OFFICE SOLUTIONS LLC, East Penn Manufacturing, Entech Engineering, Inc., Enterprise Ventures Corporation, Faulkner Subaru Harrisburg, Garrety Glass, Inc., Gateway Ticketing, Glatfelter Insurance Group, Global Tax Management, Gross McGinley, LLP, Herbert Rowland & Grubic (HRG), HVAC Distributors Inc, Investment Real Estate Management, LLC, JPL, JULABO USA, K&W Engineers, LLC, KDG, Langan Engineering and Enviromental Services, Inc., Lighting New York, Listrak Inc., Marshall Financial, McClure Company, McConkey Insurance & Benefits, McCormick Taylor, McKonly & Asbury, Meier Supply Co. Inc., Mid Atlantic Machinery, Inc., MyAdvisor, MYCO Mechanical, Inc., New Castle Lawn & Landscape, Oliver Heating & Cooling, OneDigital, Philadelphia Insurance Companies, PHOENIX CONTACT, Presence Bank, Reinhardt’s Agency Inc., RG Group, Rhoads Energy, RKL LLP, Sealstrip Corporation, SEK CPAs & Advisors, Simon Lever, Stephenson Equipment, Inc., Stonebridge Financial Group, Tokio Marine North America Services, Trout CPA, WebFX and Wessel & Company.

2024 Winners

Small Employer Category (15-99 U.S. employees)

1 Faulkner Subaru Harrisburg

2 Grudi Associates

3 Trifecta Technologies Inc

4 Stonebridge Financial Group

5 Elevate Healthcare Marketing

6 National Financial Network

7 The Hudson Companies

8 Marshall Financial

9 Fischer Cunnane & Associates Ltd

10 Simon Lever

11 AWeber

12 DOCEO OFFICE SOLUTIONS LLC

13 Presence Bank

14 TeamLogic IT of Newtown PA

15 K&W Engineers, LLC

16 Liquid Interactive, LLC

17 Morehouse Instrument Company

18 JULABO USA

19 Arden Logistics Parks

20 Appalachia Technologies

21 IMI

22 Paramount Contracting, Inc.

23 Reinhardt’s Agency Inc.

24 Enterprise Ventures Corporation

25 Altitude Marketing

26 AblePay Health

27 Micro Mold

28 Weavers Hardware Company

29 Momentum Inc.

30 Demme Learning

31 Sordoni Construction Services, Inc

32 Enders

33 Sealstrip Corporation

34 KDG

35 Stronger Youth Brands

36 Millers Mutual Group

37 JPL

38 Kozloff Stoudt PC

39 The Exterior Company

40 Garrety Glass, Inc.

41 Mid Atlantic Machinery, Inc.

42 Americhem International, Inc.

43 Wessel & Company

44 Lighting New York

45 New Castle Lawn & Landscape

46 Majik Enterprises

47 Synergy Comp Insurance Company

48 Core Business Solutions

49 Acela Architects + Engineers, PC

50 JFC Global

51 Speedwell Construction LLC

52 Sapphire Software

53 Arnold’s Office Furniture

54 Process and Data Automation, LLC

55 Keller Engineers Inc

56 SilcoTek Corporation

57 South Heidelberg Township

58 Gross McGinley,LLP

59 INTERIORS HOME

60 Investment Real Estate Management, LLC

Medium Employer Category (100-249 U.S. Employees)

1 Brown Plus

2 McKonly & Asbury

3 Boyer & Ritter LLC

4 Prelude Services

5 Trout CPA

6 McConkey Insurance & Benefits

7 Diamond Credit Union

8 Marquette Savings Bank

9 SMB TEAM LEGAL, LLC

10 MyAdvisor

11 Paradise Energy Solutions, LLC

12 Global Tax Management

13 MYCO Mechanical, Inc.

14 Cargas Systems

15 Lobar Associates Inc.

16 Harbor Compliance

17 Herculite Products, Inc

18 PeopleShare

19 Van Cleef Engineering Associates, LLC

20 Plastikos Incorporated

21 Berkshire Systems Group, Inc.

22 Roechling Medical Lancaster, LLC

23 SEK CPAs & Advisors

24 Mutual Benefit Group

25 1st Summit Bank

26 Entech Engineering, Inc.

27 RG Group

28 Goodville Mutual Casualty

29 Meier Supply Co Inc.

30 Gateway Ticketing

31 Lackawanna College

32 William A Fraser Inc; dba Fraser Advanced Information Systems

33 Edwards Business Machines

34 HVAC Distributors Inc

35 Bank of Bird-in-Hand

36 Oliver Heating & Cooling

37 Rhoads Energy

Large Employer Category (250 or more U.S. Employees)

1 Ryan, LLC

2 WebFX

3 Life Cycle Engineering

4 TPD

5 Crothall Healthcare

6 MCCORMICK TAYLOR

7 Tokio Marine North America Services

8 T&M Associates

9 Herbert, Rowland & Grubic (HRG)

10 Concurrent Technologies Corporation

11 RKL LLP

12 Edward Jones

13 Philadelphia Insurance Companies

14 Capital Blue Cross

15 Marsh & McLennan Agency, East Region

16 Langan Engineering and Environmental Services, Inc.

17 Listrak Inc.

18 PHOENIX CONTACT

19 Glatfelter Insurance Group

20 Commonwealth Charter Academy

21 New Home Star

22 Barry Isett & Associates

23 ARM Group Enterprises

24 McClure Company

25 Core BTS

26 Storage Asset Management

27 OneDigital

28 Residential Healthcare of Pennsylvania

29 D&H Distributing Co.

30 Worth & Company, Inc

31 East Penn Manufacturing

32 Berger Communities

33 JWF Industries

34 Advanced Cooling Technologies, Inc.

35 Stephenson Equipment, Inc.

36 Best Line Equipment

37 Brentwood Industries, Inc