HRO Today has annually ranked HR service providers through Baker’s Dozen Customer Satisfaction Ratings™ for nearly two decades. Its research revealed that while there are many rankings of various aspects of HR, there isn’t one definitive source of which companies are the best for human resources. Enter HRO Today’s HR100. 

The HRO Today research team reviewed nearly 1,000 companies to come up with the top 100 HR departments. HRO Today’s HR100 scores and ranks HR departments in eight core areas: workplace culture, employee benefits, diversity and inclusion, employee development and talent management, human resources innovation, leadership development, talent acquisition, and employer brand. Performance in these core categories is aggregated, forming an index that provides a reasonable score for overall HR excellence. 

To create the ranking, the HRO Today research team collected available public data from 55 established benchmarking and ranking programs in the identified categories. This allows us to generate a score based equally on depth and breadth of outside recognition and internal recognition. The data is then aggregated and weighted to create the final score, producing the index used in the ranking. 

Conclusion 

HR excellence is strongly linked to business success. Although the HR100 ranking does not directly use financial metrics like stock performance to calculate the ranking, companies at the top of the list consistently outperform those ranked lower in key areas such as revenue, profit, and growth. We’re seeing this correlation year after year. 

Key Findings 

$152,000 … the median EBITDA per employee of companies in the top 25 of the HR100. By comparison, the median EBITDA of companies in the bottom 25 of the ranking is $99,626, a 41.6% difference.  

+12.0% … the average two-year revenue growth of companies in the top 25 of the HR100. The average two-year revenue growth of companies in the bottom 25 of the ranking is +9.0%, by comparison, a 28.6% difference.  

The Fortune 500 companies collectively saw a 6% increase in revenue between 2025 and 2024, or one-half those at the top of the HR100.  

The complete ranking of the HR100 can be found on HROToday.com.