BioSpace Announces the 2019 Top 30 Life Sciences Ideal Employers

According to the second biennial 2019 Life Sciences Ideal Employer Report by BioSpace, the top three most important attributes cited by life sciences professionals around the world are the opportunity to do interesting and meaningful work, a competitive salary and health benefits.

What do life sciences professionals value in an employer?


According to the second biennial 2019 Life Sciences Ideal Employer Report by BioSpace, the top three most important attributes cited by life sciences professionals around the world are the opportunity to do interesting and meaningful work, a competitive salary and health benefits.

BioSpace surveyed more than 2,700 life science professionals globally between May and July 2019. Respondents were asked to identify their top 3 ideal employers – companies they are most interested in working for – and then asked to rate various attributes of those employers. More than 5,400 votes for Ideal Employer were cast, and almost 900 different companies were named. These are the 30 companies that rose to the top:

2019 Top 30 Life Sciences Employers

RANK COMPANY RANK COMPANY
1 Genentech 16 GlaxoSmithKline
2 Pfizer 17 AstraZeneca
3 Merck 18 Eli Lilly and Company
4 Amgen 19 Verily
5 Novartis 20 Sanofi
6 Johnson & Johnson 21 Abbott
7 Roche 22 Celgene
8 Bristol-Myers Squibb 23 bluebird bio
9 Gilead Sciences 24 BioMarin
10 AbbVie 25 Vertex
11 Illumina 26 Medtronic
12 Thermo Fisher Scientific 27 Bayer
13 Takeda/Shire 28 Boston Scientific
14 Biogen 29 Stryker
15 Regeneron 30 Alnylam
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