Top 50 Employers of Boomers

If you have read us for any length of time, you know we are suckers for lists. I just caught up to this one from the CareerJournal website:

The following are the top 50 employers for workers over age 50, according to AARP.

1. Mercy Health System, Janesville, Wis.
2. Lee Memorial Health System, Fort Myers, Fla.
3. Bon Secours Richmond Health System, Richmond, Va.
4. Leesburg Regional Medical Center and The Villages Regional Hospital, Leesburg, Fla.
5. Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn.
6. Volkswagen of America Inc., Auburn Hills, Mich.
7. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
8. Oakwood Healthcare System Inc., Dearborn, Mich.
9. First Horizon National Corp., Memphis, Tenn.
10. Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. (Roche), Nutley, N.J.
11. Centegra Health System, Woodstock, Ill.
12. Stanley Consultants, Muscatine, Iowa
13. Scripps Health, San Diego, Calif.
14. Brevard Public Schools, Viera, Fla.
15. Beaumont Hospitals, Southfield, Mich.
16. Principal Financial Group, Des Moines, Iowa
17. The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, Calif.
18. Inova Health System, Falls Church, Va.
19. The YMCA of Greater Rochester, Rochester, N.Y.
20. Saint Barnabas Health Care Organization, West Orange, N.J.
21. SC Johnson, Racine, Wis.
22. Atlantic Health System, Florham Park, N.J.
23. St. Mary’s Medical Center, Huntington, W. Va.
24. Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va.
25. Carondelet Health Network, Tucson, Ariz.
26. SSM Health Care, St. Louis, Mo.
27. Busch Entertainment Corp., Clayton, Mo.
28. Bon Secours St. Francis Health System, Greenville, S.C.
29. Pinnacle Health System, Harrisburg, Penn.
30. University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky.
31. St. Mary’s Medical Center, Evansville, Ind.
32. Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
33. Yuma Regional Medical Center, Yuma, Ariz.
34. MidMichigan Health, Midland, Mich.
35. West Virginia University Hospitals, Morgantown, W. Va.
36. Pinnacol Assurance, Denver, Colo.
37. ACUITY, Sheboygan, Wis.
38. Hospice of Marion County & Affiliated Companies, Ocala, Fla.
39. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass.
40. Florida Hospital Waterman, Tavares, Fla.
41. University of Colorado Hospital, Denver, Colo.
42. Scottsdale Healthcare, Scottsdale, Ariz.
43. L.L.Bean Inc., Freeport, Maine
44. Mitretek Systems Inc., Falls Church, Va.
45. Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, La.
46. UNM Hospitals, Albuquerque, N.M.
47. Cabell Huntington Hospital, Huntington, W. Va.
48. University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
49. Adecco, Melville, N.Y.
50. John Deere, Moline, Ill.

I’m disappointed there are no Minnesota companies on the list, but it looks like our cheesehead neighbors to the East are well represented. This topic is going to continue to be at the forefront of hiring for the next decade or so. Companies that embrace the aging Boomer generation will have a competitive advantage in the short term. Our sourcing activities are already being taxed in finding strong Gen X candidates. There are so few of them, they almost seem to be a missing generation.