"I am honored to lead our team at Ben Franklin, and I am thrilled that our staff ranked our workplace so highly," says R. Chadwick Paul, Jr., president and chief executive officer of BFTP/NEP. "The talent, passion, and enthusiasm our team brings to our work is pervasive in the organization, and it is why we are able to accomplish so much."

Organizations from across the state entered the two-part process to determine the 100 Best Places to Work. The first part consisted of evaluating each nominated company's workplace policies, practices, philosophies, systems and demographics. The second part consisted of an employee survey to measure the employee experience.

“The talent, passion, and enthusiasm our team brings to our work is pervasive in the organization.” —CHAD PAUL, PRESIDENT & CEO, BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA

Nearly 45,000 Pennsylvania employees completed the survey. The employee survey was worth approximately 75 percent of the total evaluation. The combined scores determined the top companies and the final rankings.

"We are in the business of helping northeastern Pennsylvania companies grow and thrive," Paul says. "The Ben Franklin team inspires entrepreneurship and innovation in our clients by being entrepreneurial and innovative themselves. In our 25 years of work, we’ve started 379 new companies and created and retained 33,295 jobs, and our program has received national and international recognition as a model in economic development.”