Hawaiʻi’s Best Places to Work 2022
Want a better job, where workers are treated well? Consider these 68 companies and nonprofits that meet high standards for employee engagement.
Best Places to Work Week:
Tuesday, March 29, 2022 – Small Companies (Listed in alphabetical order)
Wednesday, March 30, 2022 – Medium Companies (Listed in alphabetical order)
Thursday, March 31, 2022 – Large Companies (Listed in alphabetical order)
Friday, April 1, 2022 – Best Places to Work in-person event / Other Category List-Makers
Monday, April 4, 2021 – Top 3 Companies for Overall Small, Medium and Large Companies, ranked Most Family Friendly Companies, Healthiest Companies, Best Places to Work for Women, Best Companies for LGBTQ+ Equality, and Special Categories
Click here to see the Best Places to Work ‘Benefits at a Glance’
There’s no magic formula: Creating an excellent workplace takes years of energy, effort and conscious planning. Follow this basic roadmap and your company might get there in a few years.
This is my 14th year of reporting on the Best Places to Work in Hawai‘i and this year reminds me of one of my favorite sayings from high school history classes: “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”
My teenage-self loved the irony of that aphorism and I especially enjoyed saying it in the original French: “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.”
The saying comes back to me at a time when technology and innovation have upended almost everything, and then the pandemic upended everything again. Yet the fundamentals of human happiness and morality remain largely unchanged.
Similarly, the fundamentals of Best Places to Work have always included – and still include – employees trusting their organizations’ leadership, feeling wanted and valued, and being treated fairly.
A Best Place to Work seeks to deliver on those fundamentals. But it doesn’t stay a Best Place to Work unless it’s also willing to change: correcting flaws uncovered by the annual BPTW survey of employees and revising rules and benefits based on what employees want and need.
Only recently have we begun reporting the percentage of executives who are female in each organization and whether that organization usually offers telecommuting options to employees. And only recently have we named the Best Places to Work for Women and for LGBTQ employees. Those are valuable measures – we should have acknowledged them sooner – just as valuable as the number of vacation days and whether the company offers a 401(k) match.
Large Companies
250 or more Hawaiʻi Employees
1. Bowers + Kubota Consulting Inc.
Headquarters: Waipahu
Employees: 261
bowersandkubota.com
2. Hawaii State Federal Credit Union
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 372
hawaiistatefcu.com
3. Diagnostic Laboratory Services Inc.
Headquarters: ʻAiea
Employees: 670
dlslab.com
The remaining large companies are listed alphabetically
American Savings Bank
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 1,084
asbhawaii.com
Bayer
Headquarters: Leverkusen, Germany
Employees: 488
bayer.com
Central Pacific Bank (CPB)
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 817
cpb.bank
Child & Family Service
Headquarters: ʻEwa Beach
Employees: 309
childandfamilyservice.org
First Hawaiian Bank
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 1,930
fhb.com
Island Palm Communities LLC
Headquarters: Schofield Barracks
Employees: 405
islandpalmcommunities.com
Panda Restaurant Group
Headquarters: Rosemead, CA
Employees: 403
pandarg.com
Parents and Children Together
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 308
pacthawaii.org
Prince Resorts Hawaii
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 1,301
princeresortshawaii.com
Servco Pacific Inc.
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 1,026
servco.com
Medium Companies
50 – 249 Hawaiʻi Employees
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1. WestPac Wealth Partners
Headquarters: San Diego, CA
Employees: 52
westpachealth.com
2. Edward Jones
Headquarters: St. Louis, MO
Employees: 132
edwardjones.com
3. Swinerton
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA
Employees: 137
swinerton.com
The remaining medium companies are listed alphabetically
AHL
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 96
ahl.design
American Floor & Home (formerly American Carpet One Floor & Home)
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 132
americancarpetone.com
Aqua Engineers Inc.
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 90
aquaengineers.com
Atlas Insurance Agency
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 93
atlasinsurance.com
Boys & Girls Club of Hawaii
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 69
www.bgch.com
Corteva Agriscience
Headquarters: Wilmington, DE
Employees: 165
corteva.com
CW Associates, CPAs
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 61
cwassociatescpas.com
EnviroServices & Training Center LLC
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 57
gotoetc.com
Finance Factors Ltd.
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 122
financefactors.com
G70
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 99
g70.design
Hawaiʻi Community Foundation
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 67
hawaiicommunityfoundation.org
Hawaii Dental Service (HDS)
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 128
HawaiiDentalService.com
Hawaii Diagnostic Radiology Services
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 76
hawaiidrs.com
Hawaii Mortgage Experts LLC
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 59
hawaiimortgageexperts.com
HEMIC
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 114
hemic.com
Hickam Federal Credit Union
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 114
hickamfcu.org
Island Insurance
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 136
islandinsurance.com
Kupu
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 53
kupuhawaii.org
Nordic PCL Construction Inc.
Headquarters: Edmonton, Alberta
Employees: 149
pcl.com
Northwestern Mutual Hawaiʻi
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 50
hawaii.nm.com
Pacific Biodiesel
Headquarters: Kahului
Employees: 78
biodiesel.com
Pacific Whale Foundation
Headquarters: Wailuku
Employees: 121
pacificwhale.org
Pacxa
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 75
pacxa.com
Pearl Hawaii Federal Credit Union
Headquarters: Waipahu
Employees: 74
pearlhawaii.com
Premier Solutions HI LLC
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 61
premiersolutions.com
ProService Hawaii
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 219
proservice.com
Ronald N.S. Ho & Associates Inc.
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 75
rnsha.com
Small Companies
15 – 49 Hawaiʻi Employees
1. Express Employment Professionals of Hawaii
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 20
expresspros.com/honoluluhi
2. USAble Life
Headquarters: Little Rock, AR
Employees: 24
usablelife.com
3. Hawaiʻi Energy / Leidos
Headquarters: Honolulu / Reston, VA
Employees: 35
hawaiienergy.com
The remaining small companies are listed alphabetically
Allana Buick & Bers
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
Employees: 25
abbae.com
Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate / Advantage Realty
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 33
betterhawaii.com
Diamond Head Dental Care
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 25
DiamondHeadDentalCare.com
DRFortress
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 20
drfortress.com
Dynamic Planning & Response LLC
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 38
dynapnr.com
The Hawaii Group
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 29
thehawaiigroup.com
Hawaii Information Service
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 20
hawaiiinformation.com
HiEmployment
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 17
hi-employment.com
Imua Family Services
Headquarters: Kahului
Employees: 41
imuafamily.org
Integrated Security Technologies Inc.
Headquarters: Waipahu
Employees: 30
istechs.net
Intech Hawaii
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 23
intech-support.com
JR Doran Inc. / Ceramic Tile Plus and Exclusively Yours
Headquarters: Kahului
Employees: 35
ceramictileplus.com
Kilauea Pest Control
Headquarters: Kailua
Employees: 49
kilaueapest.com
Lawson & Associates Inc.
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 32
lawsonsafety.com
Na Aliʻi Consulting & Sales LLC
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 47
nakupuna.com
National Interstate Insurance Company
Headquarters: Richfield, OH
Employees: 22
natl.com
Okahara and Associates Inc.
Headquarters: Hilo
Employees: 35
okahara.com
Pacific Administration Inc.
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 47
pacadmin.com
Servpac Inc.
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 23
servpac.com
Verity CPAs
Headquarters: Honolulu
Employees: 16
veritycpas.com
Vivial
Headquarters: Dayton, OH
Employees: 27
vivial.net
Windward Synergy Center
Headquarters: Kailua
Employees: 19
windwardsynergycenter.com
Other Categories
Most Family-Friendly Companies
Small Employer
- Intech Hawaii
- JR Doran Inc. / Ceramic Tile Plus and Exclusively Yours
- Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate / Advantage Realty
Medium Employer
- Premier Solutions HI LLC
- Pacific Biodiesel
- Ronald N.S. Ho & Associates Inc.
Large Employer
- Parents And Children Together
- Panda Restaurant Group
- Bayer Hawaii
Healthiest Companies
Small Employer
- Lawson & Associates Inc.
- Servpac Inc.
- Kilauea Pest Control
Medium Employer
- Hawaii Mortgage Experts LLC
- Pacific Biodiesel
- American Floor & Home
Large Employer
- Panda Restaurant Group
- Bayer Hawaii
- Child & Family Service
Best Places To Work for Women
- WestPac Wealth Partners
- G70
- Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate / Advantage Realty
- Express Employment Professionals of Hawaii
- Pacxa
Best Companies for LGBTQ+ Equality
- First Hawaiian Bank
Runners-up listed in alphabetical order
- American Savings Bank
- Bayer Hawaii
- Hawai‘i Energy / Leidos
- Northwestern Mutual Hawai‘i
Best Restaurant to Work for in Hawaiʻi
- Panda Restaurant Group
Best Place to Work on the Neighbor Islands
- USAble Life, Hawaiʻi Island
Best Young Business to Work For
- Windward Synergy Center, founded in 2015
Best Places to Work Rookie of the Year
- Verity CPAs
Best Places to Work Hall of Fame (number of year on the list)
- Edward Jones, 18 years
- Servco Pacific Inc., 18 years
- Nordic PCL Construction Inc., 16 years
- Island Insurance, 16 years
- Bowers + Kubota Consulting Inc., 15 years
- ProService Hawaii, 15 years
- Atlas Insurance Agency Inc., 14 years
- Pacific Administrators Inc., 14 years
- Central Pacific Bank, 13 years
- American Savings Bank, 13 years
- First Hawaiian Bank, 12 years
- Imua Family Services, 12 years
- The Hawaii Group, 11 years
- Swinerton, 11 years
- EnviroServices & Training Center LLC, 11 years
- Integrated Security Technologies Inc., 11 years
- Hawaii State Federal Credit Union, 11 years
- Pacific Biodiesel, 11 years
- Hawaii Diagnostic Radiology Services, 10 years
- Intech Hawaii, 10 years
- Panda Restaurant Group, 10 years
- Vivial, 10 years
2022 Benefits at a Glance
| Company Name | % employee medical coverage paid by employer |
% of executives who are female |
# of paid holidays / year |
# of PTO days / year (not holidays) |
# of vacation days / year |
# of sick days / year |
Retirement contribution match? |
Telecommuting offered as standard practice |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AHL | 100% | 22% | 9 | 15 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Allana Buick & Bers | 100% | 0% | 9 | 10 | 5 | Yes | Yes | |
| American Floor and Home |
75% – 99% | 38% | 10 | 10 | 5 | No | No | |
| American Savings Bank | 50% – 74% | 40% | 12 | 19 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Aqua Engineers | 75% – 99% | 17% | 10 | 15 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Atlas Insurance Agency | 100% | 58% | 13 | 10 | 12 | Yes | Yes | |
| Bayer Hawaii | 75% – 99% | 14% | 8 | 15 | 7 | Yes | No | |
| Better Homes and Garden Real Estate / Advantage Realty |
100% | 50% | 14 | 10 | 5 | No | Yes | |
| Bowers + Kubota Consulting | 100% | 21% | 12 | 15 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Boys & Girls Club of Hawaii | 100% | 100% | 14 | 22 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Central Pacific Bank | 75% – 99% | 17% | 15 | 12 | 6 | Yes | Yes | |
| Child & Family Service | 75% – 99% | 100% | 14 | 24 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Corteva Agriscience | 50% – 74% | 40% | 11 | 20 | Yes | Yes | ||
| CW Associates, CPAs | 100% | 50% | 9 | 15 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Diagnostic Laboratory Services | 75% – 99% | 25% | 8 | 17 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Diamond Head Dental Care | 100% | 50% | 7 | Yes | No | |||
| DRFortress | 100% | 33% | 10 | 15 | No | Yes | ||
| Dynamic Planning & Response | 75% – 99% | 50% | 11 | 12 | No | No | ||
| Edward Jones | 75% – 99% | 43% | 9 | 10 | 8 | Yes | Yes | |
| EnviroServices & Training Center |
100% | 0% | 10 | 14 | No | Yes | ||
| Express Employment Professionals of Hawaii |
75% – 99% | 51% | 6 | 11 | 3 | Yes | Yes | |
| Finance Factors | 100% | 50% | 12 | 10 | 5 | Yes | Yes | |
| First Hawaiian Bank | 75% – 99% | 42% | 15 | 15 | 15 | Yes | Yes | |
| G70 | 75% – 99% | 40% | 9 | 17 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Hawaiʻi Energy / Leidos | 75% – 99% | 60% | 10 | 16 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Hawaiʻi Community Foundation | 100% | 67% | 14 | 21 | No | Yes | ||
| Hawaii Dental Service (HDS) | 100% | 50% | 11 | 15 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Hawaii Diagnostic Radiology Services |
100% | 0% | 17 | 15 | 13 | No | Yes | |
| (The) Hawaii Group | 100% | 87% | 12 | 10 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Hawaii Information Service | 100% | 100% | 9 | 10 | 6 | Yes | Yes | |
| Hawaii Mortgage Experts LLC | Less than 25% |
50% | 10 | 12 | No | Yes | ||
| Hawaii State Federal Credit Union |
100% | 33% | 14 | 13 | Yes | No | ||
| HEMIC | 100% | 56% | 14 | 20 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Hickam Federal Credit Union | 100% | 50% | 14 | 10 | 12 | Yes | No | |
| HiEmployment | 75% – 99% | 50% | 11 | 10 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Imua Family Services | 100% | 86% | 17 | 12 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Integrated Security Technologies | 100% | 50% | 13 | 13 | No | Yes | ||
| Intech Hawaii | 100% | 0% | 12 | 10 | No | Yes | ||
| Island Insurance | 100% | 25% | 13 | 10 | 12 | Yes | No | |
| Island Palm Insurance | 75% – 99% | 60% | 12 | 18 | 7 | Yes | Yes | |
| JR Doran Inc. / Ceramic Tile Plus and Exclusively Yours |
100% | 50% | 7 | 5 | 2 | Yes | No | |
| Kilauea Pest Control | 100% | 43% | 4 | 0 | No | Yes | ||
| Kupu | 100% | 25% | 14 | 15 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Lawson & Associates | 100% | 100% | 10 | 20 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Na Aliʻi Consulting & Sales LLC | 100% | 10 | 20 | No | Yes | |||
| National Interstate Insurance Co. | 75% – 99% | 14% | 8 | 22 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Nordic PCL Construction | 75% – 99% | 0% | 11 | 15 | Yes | No | ||
| Northwestern Mutual Hawaiʻi | 75% – 99% | 64% | 12 | 15 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Okahara and Associates | 100% | 25% | 11 | 13 | No | No | ||
| Pacific Administrators | 75% – 99% | 0% | 14 | 10 | 5 | Yes | No | |
| Pacific Biodiesel | 100% | 75% | 9 | 15 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Pacific Whale Foundation | 75% – 99% | 67% | 8 | 15 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Pacxa | 100% | 20% | 13 | 15 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Panda Restaurant Group | 75% – 99% | 25% | 2 | 10 | 3 | Yes | No | |
| Parents and Children Together | 100% | 78% | 14 | 21 | 12 | Yes | Yes | |
| Pearl Hawaii Federal Credit Union |
100% | 50% | 12 | 16 | 7 | Yes | Yes | |
| Premier Solutions HI | 100% | 43% | 10 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Prince Resorts Hawaii | 100% | 46% | 10 | 10 | 10 | Yes | Yes | |
| ProService Hawaii | 100% | 25% | 9 | 15 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Ronald N.S. Ho & Associates | 100% | 0% | 11 | 15 | No | Yes | ||
| Servco Pacific | 75% – 99% | 0% | 7 | 10 | 12 | Yes | Yes | |
| Servpac | 100% | 50% | 7 | 20 | Yes | No | ||
| Swinerton | 75% – 99% | 17% | 10 | 12 | 7 | Yes | No | |
| USAble Life | 75% – 99% | 15% | 11 | 18 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Verity CPAs | 100% | 40% | 8 | 19 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Vivial | 75% – 99% | 20% | 9 | 14 | Yes | Yes | ||
| WestPac Wealth Partners | 100% | 0% | 10 | Yes | Yes | |||
| Windward Synergy Center | 75% – 99% | 67% | 7 | 10 | No | Yes |
How We Pick Them
Each year, Hawaii Business Magazine partners with the research firm Best Companies Group to administer the Best Places to Work survey. The main part of the survey is a confidential questionnaire sent to all employees at small and medium companies and a statistically representative sample at larger ones.
There are 77 questions and open-ended statements in the confidential survey, and the employee responses make up 75% of a company’s score. The rest of the score is based on 80 questions answered by the HR department about benefits, working conditions and more.
Need a value proposition? The Best Places to Work foster “engaged” employees, according to the Best Companies Group. Among other things, that means employees:
- Look forward to going to work on most days.
- Plan to stay with the organization at least two more years, which reduces turnover and ensures stability.
- Are willing to make an extra effort to help the organization succeed, which can yield a culture of excellence.
Employee engagement pays off big for employers, but it’s an ideal win-win situation for both employees and employers.
None of these Best Places to Work are utopias. There will always be employees with gripes. But don’t underestimate the power of employee engagement. After more than four decades of working in a dozen companies big, small and in-between, I know employee engagement is a mighty force and disengagement is a miserable drag.
Top 10 Key Drivers This Year
The confidential survey of employees is the main factor determining the Best Places to Work in Hawai‘i.
Best Companies Group, Hawaii Business Magazine’s partner in identifying the Best Places to Work, says these were the top 10 drivers in the latest survey determining whether a company made the cut.
- I feel I am valued in this organization.
- I have confidence in the leadership of this organization.
- I like the type of work that I do.
- Most days, I feel I have made progress at work.
- Overall, I’m satisfied with this organization’s benefits package.
- This organization helps me pursue a career path that aligns with my skills and interests.
- This organization treats me like a person, not a number.
- At this organization, employees have fun at work.
- The leaders of this organization care about their employees’ wellbeing.
- I’m satisfied with the amount of vacation (or paid time off ).
Do You Want to Be a Best Place to Work?
None of Hawaiʻi's Best Places to Work started that way. Every organization on the list built workplaces full of engaged employees over the long haul, and many used the annual Best Places to Work survey and its feedback to understand their strengths and weaknesses and to hear what their employees really thought. The confidential survey of employees reveals good, bad and ugly details that you might not discover any other way. It’s the most useful annual survey for Hawai‘i’s businesses.
Register today for the 2023 program at BestPlacesToWorkHawaii.com. There’s no risk in participating in the program; if your company doesn’t make the Best Places list, no one will know it was registered.
