The Employee Ownership 100

The NCEO’s Employee Ownership 100 list ranks the largest companies in the US that are majority employee-owned through an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), worker co-operative, or other form of broad-based employee ownership. To be on the list, companies must be at least 50% employee-owned; most on the list are 100%. Collectively, these broad-based plans employ more than 655,000 people.

This list includes the largest broad-based employee-owned companies in the US that we could verify using governmental or other credible third-party sources. Most are ESOP-owned, and one is a cooperative. Size is measured by reports of full- and part-time employees in the US compiled by correspondence with companies, corporate websites, and/or by the active participants in the plan according to the company's latest Form 5500 filing. The NCEO compiled this list through a comprehensive analysis of all ESOP filings and our own research to determine ownership percentages. Suggested additions and corrections are warmly welcomed; contact Research Director Nancy Wiefek at nwiefek@nceo.org.

*Asterisks = 100% ESOP/worker-owned companies. Click on a column heading to sort the table.