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Newsweek ranks the best companies to work for by state, and here’s who the named the best places to work in North Carolina.
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The magazine considered “well-being, leadership, fair compensation and work-life balance.” Eleven companies in North Carolina got five stars from Newsweek in 2026.
Fifteen companies in the state got five stars in 2025.
Newsweek also offers lists of the best places in the country to work in financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, professional services and tech.
This is the fourth year Newsweek has released a list of the best places to work.
The magazine teamed up with Plant-A Insights Group to evaluate workplaces. The study uses national and state level data on companies with over a thousand employees to determine the best places to work.
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The partners surveyed over 179,000 employees between April 2025 and October 2025. Higher weight is given to employees who live in the same state as the company they are evaluating.
Other groups also evaluate work places in North Carolina, including:
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This story was originally published September 1, 2026 at 8:00 AM with the headline “11 NC companies are the best workplaces in the state, Newsweek says.”
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