What are the best individual work departments in the U.S.? Comparably has published its annual Best Department Awards 2019, which breaks down the 25 best-rated departments as voted on by employees in four categories: Sales, Marketing, Engineering and Design.
Comparably’s mission is to make work transparent and rewarding for employees and employers. These lists are meant to highlight the leaders and businesses who are helping to drive positive culture change across companies large and small.
See below for a look at all of the lists in our Best Departments 2019 series as well as a methodology for how the awards are calculated.
Check out our full Best Departments 2019 series
Methodology
Comparably’s Best Departments are derived from sentiment ratings provided by employees nationwide from the respective departments who anonymously rated those departments on Comparably.com between March 8, 2018 and March 8, 2019. There were no fees or costs associated with participating, nor was nomination required.
Winners were determined based on a series of 50+ structured and comprehensive workplace questions in core culture categories, including: Compensation, Leadership, Professional Development, Work-Life Balance, Perks & Benefits, to name a few (in Yes/No, True/False, 1-10 scale, and multiple choice formats). The answer to each question was given a numerical score and then compared to companies of similar size across the U.S. Additional weight was given to scores at companies with more participation from their employee base.
About Comparably
Comparably is an online career destination for compensation and workplace culture data with a mission to make work dramatically more transparent and rewarding. Employees can anonymously and publically rate their company culture and access salary data through the lens of specific demographics, including gender, ethnicity, age, location, years of experience, company size, title/department, and education. With the most comprehensive and structured data in the industry, it has accumulated 10 million ratings and hundreds of thousands of salary records by employees at 50,000 U.S. companies, from startups to Fortune 50 businesses. The company’s data-driven approach has quickly made it a trusted media resource for salary and workplace culture, and one of the fastest-growing SaaS solutions for employer branding. For more information, go to Comparably.com. For workplace culture and salary studies, including Comparably’s annual Best Places to Work and Best CEOs awards, go to Comparably.com/blog.
