Summary:
– Forbes ranked 35 Oklahoma employers across 13 industries.
– Top five include IBM, Costco , Choctaw Nation , MidFirst and Chickasaw Nation .
– Health care , banking and retail companies also dominate the list.
Companies across 13 industries ranging from retail/wholesale to financial services are the 35 best places to work in Oklahoma, according to Forbes.
Forbes and market research firm Statista compiled the list of America’s Best-In-State Employers 2025 by surveying more than 160,000 employees who work for a company of at least 500 people.
Overall, 1,417 companies made it onto at least one of the state lists, which yielded a combined 2,500 rankings. Like the 2024 list, many of the companies were in the health care/social services sector or education.
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