Find a job at a company that supports you.
Workplace equality is improving, but some employees, unfortunately, still face discrimination because of their sexual orientation and gender identity. Finding companies that include sexual orientation and gender identity in their non-discrimination policies is a way to identify companies that have made a public commitment to hiring more LGBTQ employees. But there's still a ways to go. In fact, according to a recent Monster survey, 56% of respondents think companies should be doing more to recruit and hire from the LGBTQ community, and nearly 20% think their current employer has a negative attitude toward LGBTQ hiring.
To right that wrong, Monster consulted the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's annual Corporate Equality Index (CEI), which rates companies based on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) equality.
The CEI rating criteria have four key pillars in order to be considered among the best companies:
- Non-discrimination policies
- Employment benefits
- Supporting an inclusive culture and corporate social responsibility including public commitment to LGBTQ equality
- Responsible citizenship
This year, 571 businesses received a top rating of 100%. In addition, gender identity is now part of non-discrimination policies at 85% of Fortune 500 companies, up from just 3% in 2002.
Click through the list below to see the top-rated LGBTQ-friendly companies, many of which currently have jobs on Monster.
Best places to work for LGBTQ equality (organized by industry):
Advertising and marketing
DigitasLBi
Fleishman-Hillard
Interpublic Group of Companies
Leo Burnett Company
MSLGroup
Nielsen
Ogilvy Group
Omnicom Group
Publicis Inc
Publicis Media
Publicis Sapient
Quantcast
Re:Sources USA
Saatchi & Saatchi
WE Communications
Aerospace and defense
Airbus Americas
Harris Corp.
Lockheed Martin
Northrop Grumman
Rolls-Royce North America
Airlines
American Airlines
Southwest Airlines
United Airlines
Apparel, fashion, textiles, department stores
Abercrombie & Fitch
Adidas
Levi Strauss
Nike
PVH Corp.
Under Armour
VF Corp.
Warby Parker
Automotive
General Motors
Hyundai Motor
Subaru
Tesla
Toyota
Banking and financial services
AllianceBernstein
Ally Financial
American Express
AQR Capital Management
Bank of New York Mellon
Bank of the West
Barclays
BlackRock
Blackstone Group
Bloomberg
BMO Bankcorp
BNP Paribas
Broadridge Financial Solutions
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
Capital Group
Capital One
Carlyle Group
Charles Schwab
Citigroup
CME Group
Comerica
Compass Bancshares
Credit Suisse USA
Depository Trust & Clearing Corp
Deutsche Bank
Discover Financial Services
E*Trade
Eastern Bank Corp.
Edward Jones
Federal Home Loan Mortgage (Freddie Mac)
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Fidelity National Information Services
Fifth Third Bancorp
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
First American Financial Corp.
First Data Corp.
Franklin Templeton Investments
Goldman Sachs
HSBC
Huntington Bancshares
Janus Henderson Investors
John Hancock Financial Services
JPMorgan Chase
KeyBank
KKR & Co. LP
Legg Mason
M&T Bank Corp
Macquarie Group
MasterCard
Mesirow Financial Holdings
Moody’s Corp.
Morgan Stanley
Morningstar
MUFG Union Bank
NASDAQ
Northern Trust
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
OppenheimerFunds
PIMCO
PNC Financial Services
Prudential Financial Services
RBC Capital Markets
RBC Wealth Management
Robert W. Baird & Co
Rockland Trust
S&P Global
Societe Generale Financial Corp
Standard Chartered
State Street Corp.
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
SunTrust Banks
Synchrony Financial
T. Rowe Price Associates
TD Ameritrade
TD Bank
TD Securities
TIAA
TPG Global
Transunion
U.S. Bancorp
UBS AG
United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
Vanguard Group
Visa
Voya Financial
Wells Fargo
Chemicals and biotech
BASF Corp.
Celanese Corp
Dow Chemical
DuPont
Ecolab
Genentech
International Flavors & Fragrances
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Colleges and universities
University of Phoenix
Computer hardware and office equipment
Apple
CDW
Lexmark International
Seagate Technology
Xerox
Computer software
Adobe Systems
AthenaHealth
Autodesk
Box Inc
Electronic Arts
Intuit
Medallia
Medidata Solutions
Microsoft
Nuance Communications
Oracle
Pinterest
Salesforce
SAP
Symantec
Uber
VMware
Workday
Consulting and business services
A.T. Kearney
Accenture
ADP
AlixPartners LLP
Aon Corp.
Bain & Co. / Bridgespan Group
Booz Allen Hamilton
Boston Consulting Group
Capgemini America
The Capital Markets Company
Deloitte
Dun & Bradstreet
EAB
Ernst & Young (EY)
Gartner
Grant Thornton
Huron Consulting Group
IBM
IHS Markit LTD
Iron Mountain
Kelly Services
Korn/Ferry International
KPMG
Manpower Group
Marsh & McLennan
McKinsey & Co.
Navigant Consulting
PwC
Robert Half
RSM US
Science Applications International
Slalom
Thomson Reuters
Willis Towers Watson
ZS Associates
Energy and utilities
Alliant Energy Corp.
Ameren
Dominion Energy
Duke Energy
Edison International
Exelon
PG&E
Portland General Electric
PPL
Sempra Energy
Southern Co.
Xcel Energy
Engineering and construction
Aecom
Black & Veatch Holding
Jacobs Engineering Group
Perkins + Will
Turner Construction
Entertainment and electronic media
Activision Blizzard
AMC Entertainment
Anschutz Entertainment Group
Buzzfeed
CBS Corp.
Cox Enterprises
Fox Corporation
Lions Gate Entertainment
Live Nation
Netflix
Sirius XM Radio
Sony Corporation of America
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Tegna
Time Warner
Univision
Viacom
Vox Media
Walt Disney
Warner Media
Food, beverages, and groceries
Anheuser-Busch Companies
Aramark
Barilla
Brown-Forman
Burger King
Campbell Soup
Cargill
Chobani
Coca-Cola
ConAgra Brands
Danone North America
Dunkin Brands
E&J Gallo Winery
General Mills
Hannaford Supermarkets
The Hershey Company
Kellogg
Kraft Heinz
Kroger
McDonald’s
MillerCoors
Nestle
PepsiCo
Shake Shack
Sodexo
Health care
Aetna
AmerisourceBergen
Baxter International
Blue Shield of California
Boston Scientific Corp.
Cardinal Health
Cerner Corp.
Cigna
Express Scripts Holding Company
Hardvard Pilgrim Health Care
Henry Schein
Humana Inc
Kaiser Permanente
Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings
McKesson Corp.
Quest Diagnostics
UnitedHealth Group
UPMC
WellCare Health Plans
High-tech/photo/science equipment
Advanced Micro Devices
Applied Materials Inc.
Becton, Dickinson and Co.
Eastman Kodak
Emerson Electric
Intel
Nvidia
RingCentral
Texas Instruments
Home furnishing
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams
Hotels, resorts, and casinos
Caesars Entertainment
Choice Hotels
Hilton
Hyatt Hotels
InterContinental Hotels Group
Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group
Marriott
MGM Resorts
Quaintance-Weaver Management
The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
Wyndham Destinations
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts
Insurance
AIG
Allianz Life Insurance
American Family Insurance Group
Anthem
Assurant
Asurion LLC
AXA
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee
Cambia Health Solutions
Chubb
CNA Insurance
CSAA Insurance
CUNA Mutual Group
Farmers Insurance Group
Genworth Financial
Guardian Life Insurance
Hanover Insurance Group
Hartford Financial Services Group
Health Care Service Corporation
Horizon Healthcare Services
Liberty Mutual Group
Lincoln National Corp.
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
MetLife
Nationwide
New York Life Insurance
Principal Financial Group
Standard Insurance Co.
State Farm
Sun Life Financial
Transamerica
The Travelers Companies
Tufts Health Plan
Unum Group
WellMark Inc.
Internet
Akamai Technologies
Expedia
GoDaddy
Indeed
LinkedIn
Twitter
Yelp
Internet services and retailing
AirBnB
eBay
Facebook
IAC/InerActiveCorp.
PayPal
WeddingWire
Law firms
Akerman LLP
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP
Alston & Bird LLP
Arent Fox LLP
Armstrong Teasdale LLP
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
Baker & McKenzie LLP
Ballard Spahr LLP
Bass, Berry & Sims PLC
Blank Rome LLP
Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
Brown Rudnick LLP
Bryan Cave LLP
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
BuckleySandler LLC
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Carlton Fields Jorden Burt
Chapman and Cutler LLP
Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Covington & Burling
Crowell & Moring LLP
Day Pitney LLP
Dechert LLP
Dentons US LLP
Dickinson Wright PLLC
DLA Piper
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Duane Morris LLP
Dykema Gossett PLLC
Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP
Faegre Baker Daniels
Fenwick & West LLP
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
Fish & Richardson PS
Foley & Lardner LLP
Foley Hoag LLP
Fox Rothschild LLP
Fredrikson & Byron
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Frost Brown Todd LLC
Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith PLC
Goodwin Procter LLP
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP
Haynes and Boone LLP
Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
Hogan Lovells US LLP
Holland & Knight LLP
Husch Blackwell LLP
Ice Miller LLP
Jenner & Block LLP
K&L Gates LLP
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
King & Spalding LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Kutak Rock LLP
Lane Powell PC
Latham & Watkins LLP
Littler Mendelson PC
Locke Lord LLP
Loeb & Loeb LLP
Lowenstein Sandler LLP
Manatt, Phelps & Philips LLP
Mayer Brown LLP
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, & Popeo PC
Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP
Moore & Van Allen PLLC
Morris, Manning & Martin LLP
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Munger, Tolles & Olson
Nixon Peabody LLP
Norton Rose Fulbright
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Paul Hastings LLP
Perkins Coie LLP
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Polsinelli
Quarles & Brady LLP
Reed Smith LLP
Robins Kaplan LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP
Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr
Schiff Hardin LLP
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Snell & Wilmer
Squire Patton Boggs
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Stinson Leonard Street LLP
Stoel Rivers LLP
Thompson Coburn LLP
Thompson Hine LLP
Troutman Sanders LLP
Vinson & Elkins LLP
Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
White & Case LLP
Wiley Rein LLP
Williams Mullen
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr
Winston & Strawn LLP
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP
Mail and freight delivery
UPS
Manufacturing
3M
Arconic
Ball Corp.
Colgate-Palmolive
Cummins Inc.
Danaher Corp.
Eaton
Fortive
General Electric
Herman Miller
Nestle Purina PetCare
Owens Corning
Rockwell Automation
SC Johnson & Son
Stanley Black & Decker
Stryker
TE Connectivity
United Technologies
W.W. Grainger Inc.
Oil and gas
Air Products & Chemicals
BP America
Chevron
Shell Oil
Pharmaceuticals
AbbVie
Amgen
Astellas Pharma
Bayer
Biogen
Boehringer Ingelheim
Celgene Corp
Eli Lilly & Co.
Gilead Sciences
GlaxoSmithKline
Johnson & Johnson
Mallinckrodt
Merck
Pfizer
Sanofi
Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Publishing
Gannett
Real estate, commercial
CBRE
Cushman & Wakefield Inc
JLL
Lendlease Americas
Retail and consumer products
Amazon
Barnes & Noble
Best Buy
Caleres
CarMax
The Clorox Company
Constellation Brands
Diageo North America
Estee Lauder
Food Lion
GameStop
Gap
Giant Food Stores LLC
Giant of Maryland
Groupon
Hallmark
Ikea
J. Crew Group
L Brands
L’Oreal
Lowe’s Companies
Macy’s
Nordstrom
Office Depot
Pernod Ricard USA LLC
Procter & Gamble
Replacements Ltd.
Sephora
Sony Electronics
Starbucks
Tapestry Inc.
Target
Tiffany & Co.
Unilever
Walgreens
Wal-Mart
Whirlpool
Telecommunications
Altice USA
AT&T
CenturyLink Inc
Cisco Systems
Motorola Solutions
Nokia Inc.
T-Mobile
U.S. Cellular
Tobacco
Altria Group
Transportation and travel
American Express Global Business Travel
Cargo Transporters
Carnival Corp
Expedia Group
Hertz Global Holdings
Lyft Inc.
TripAdvisor
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