No. 1
Years ranked: 12
Founded: 2001
Headquarters: Seattle
Employees: 9,000 with 729 in Colorado
Facts: Slalom is a modern consulting firm focused on strategy, technology, and business transformation. The company has strong partnerships with more than 200 leading technology providers, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Salesforce, and Tableau.
No. 2
Years ranked: 6
Founded: 1937
Headquarters: Mayfield Village, Ohio
Employees: 53,116, with 2,401 in Colorado
Facts: Progressive is the third largest auto insurer in the country, a leading seller of motorcycle and commercial auto insurance, and a top 15 homeowners insurance carrier. The company was the first auto insurance group to launch a website, the first publicly held company to report results monthly, and the first insurance company to offer pet injury coverage.
No. 3
Years ranked: 7, 5 consecutive
Founded: 1946
Headquarters: Boston
Employees: 68,000 associates globally and 2,067 in Colorado
Locations: 8 in Colorado
Facts: Fidelity offers financial and retirement planning services and is one of the first U.S. companies to provide employee student loan repayment assistance. More than 865 Colorado employees have saved over $3.5 million since the program started in 2016.
No. 4
Years ranked: 11
Founded: 1973
Headquarters: Westlake, Texas
Employees: 33,000, with 4,635 in Colorado
Location: 8 in Colorado
Facts: Charles Schwab offers a full range of securities brokerage, banking, money management and financial advisory services to individual investors and independent investment advisors.
No. 5
Years ranked: 7
Founded: 1915
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 656 with 650 in Colorado
Facts: Pinnacol Assurance provides workers’ compensation protection to 57,000 Colorado employers and their employees.
No. 6
Years ranked: 4, 3 consecutive
Founded: 1973
Headquarters: Rosemead, Calif.
Employees: 50,699 with 712 in Colorado
Facts: Panda Restaurant Group is the parent company of Panda Express, Panda Inn, and Hibachi-San. The family-owned company has 2,200 locations worldwide.
No. 7
Years ranked: 2
Founded: 1938
Headquarters: Lone Tree
Employees: 740
Facts: Canvas is a full-service financial cooperative with 294,000 members and over $4.2 billion in assets.
No. 8
Years ranked: 1
Founded: 1952
Headquarters: Boulder
Employees: 612
Locations: 22
Facts: Elevations is an award-winning Colorado financial institution with over $3 billion in assets and more than 170,000 members.
No. 9
Years ranked: 5
Founded: 1939
Headquarters: Santa Rosa, Calif.
Employees: 14,500, with 884 in Colorado
Facts: Keysight manufactures equipment and software to design, test, manufacture and optimize electronics technology.
No. 10
Years ranked: 9, 4 consecutive
Founded: 1985
Headquarters: Breckenridge
Employees: 645
Facts: Breckenridge Grand Vacations is a family-owned company that builds, sells and manages fractional resorts in Breckenridge.
No. 11
Years ranked: 5
Founded: 2003
Headquarters: Lakewood
Employees: 950
Locations: 6
Facts: The award-winning team at Encore Electric excels at complex technical projects like hospitals, universities, data centers, office structures and museums.
No. 12
Years ranked: 11
Founded: 1922
Headquarters: St. Louis, Mo.
Employees: 48,808, with 866 in Colorado
Facts: Edward Jones has nearly 19,000 financial advisers who work directly with 8 million clients and help them create personalized investment strategies.
No. 13
Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers
Years ranked: 1
Founded: 1996
Headquarters: Plano, Texas
Employees: 50,000, with 1,273 in Colorado
Locations: 16
Facts: Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers is one of America’s fastest-growing Restaurant companies with more than 650 restaurants in 33 states and five countries, with over 50 new Restaurants under construction.
No. 14
Years ranked: 2
Founded: 1998
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 601
Locations: 35 in Rocky Mountain region
Facts: Vectra serves Colorado’s small and middle-market businesses and their owners, managers and employees through full-service branches.
No. 15
Years ranked: 6
Founded: 1962
Headquarters: Reston, Va.
Employees: 22,000, with 968 in Colorado
Facts: CACI International Inc. provides information technology services to many branches of the federal government, including defense, homeland security, intelligence, and healthcare.
No. 16
Jefferson Center For Mental Health
Years ranked: 11
Founded: 1958
Headquarters: Wheat Ridge
Employees: 650
Facts: The Jefferson Center has served as a nonprofit, community-focused mental health care and substance use treatment provider for more than 60 years. The center is part of the statewide mental health crisis system.
No. 17
Years ranked: 5
Founded: 1955
Headquarters: Englewood
Employees: 515
Locations: 9
Facts: AllHealth Network provides behavioral health care to more than 18,000 children, adults and older adults, families and couples. Its services include counseling, psychiatry, crisis services, substance abuse treatment, an adult acute treatment unit, services offered to the criminal justice system, vocational and social rehabilitation, school-based services and an on-site pharmacy.
No. 18
Years ranked: 10, 2 consecutive
Founded: 1999
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 69,000, with over 4,357 in Colorado
Facts: DaVita provides kidney dialysis services through more than 3,000 outpatient dialysis centers in the United States and other countries.
No. 19
Years ranked: 12
Founded: 1963
Headquarters: Lakewood
Employees: 2,730
Locations: 101
Facts: Colorado’s largest locally-owned bank offers consumers and businesses retail banking and financing solutions.
No. 20
Years ranked: 5
Founded: 1993
Headquarters: Charleston, S.C.
Employees: 15,000, including 1,100 in Colorado
Facts: Greystar provides property management services for residential housing, apartment homes, furnished corporate housing, and mixed-use properties that incorporate retail space.
No. 21
Years ranked: 1
Founded: 2010
Headquarters: Pueblo
Employees: 537
Facts: For over 13 years, GOAL High School has delivered innovative blended online learning experiences and provided cutting-edge technology to its 5,000 students through partnerships with Microsoft and Lenovo.
No. 22
Years ranked: 2
Founded: 1891
Headquarters: Greenwood Village
Employees: 11,500, with 2,631 in Colorado
Facts: Empower offers industry-leading solutions to help people manage their money for today while saving more for their tomorrow.
No. 23
Years ranked: 3, 1
Founded: 1992
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 535
Locations: 5
Facts: Rocky Mountain Human Services provides 15,000 Coloradans with case management and direct services.
No. 24
Aurora Mental Health and Recovery
Years ranked: 2
Founded: 1975
Headquarters: Aurora
Employees: 625
Facts: Aurora Mental Health and Recovery is a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic offering mental health services. The staff of physicians, nurses, psychologists, therapists, and peers works with all age groups, from children to seniors.
No. 25
Years ranked: 1
Founded: 2007
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 500
Locations: 30 in Colorado
Facts: Smashburger wants to be the best burger restaurant for the next generation of burger lovers.
No. 26
Years ranked: 9
Founded: 1948
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 1,230
Facts: Rose Medical Center is a leader in comprehensive women’s health, surgical and endoscopy services, heart and vascular, orthopedics and spine surgery, total joint replacement, bariatrics and sports, internal and aesthetic medicine. It was the first Denver hospital to allow Jewish, African American and female physicians to practice medicine.
No. 27
Years ranked: 10
Founded: 2012
Headquarters: Aurora
Employees: 29,076
Facts: The UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital is a Level I trauma center and the principal teaching hospital for the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
No. 28
Years ranked: 11
Founded: 1989
Headquarters: Denver
Employees: 867
Facts: Formerly The Mental Health Center of Denver, WellPower serves people with mental illness, trauma, and co-occurring substance abuse disorders. The center provides a walk-in clinic and respite care as part of a statewide mental health network, substance use, and emotional crisis help.
