{"id":424819,"date":"2026-01-22T01:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/424819\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T01:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:44:12","slug":"forbes-ranked-canadas-top-employers-for-2026-and-over-30-quebec-companies-made-the-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/424819\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes ranked Canada&#8217;s top employers for 2026 and over 30 Quebec companies made the cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes just released its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/lists\/canada-best-employers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">2026 ranking of Canada&#8217;s Best Employers<\/a>, and Quebec had a strong showing with 34 companies making the list of 300.<\/p>\n<p>The annual ranking, produced in partnership with market research firm Statista, surveyed more than 37,000 Canada-based employees working for businesses with at least 500 workers. Participants rated employers on compensation packages, work flexibility, training opportunities, leadership programs, and whether they&#8217;d recommend their workplace to others.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec dominates the top 10<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s particularly impressive is how Quebec organizations performed at the very top of the rankings \u2014 four of the top five employers in Canada are based in the province.<\/p>\n<p>Universit\u00e9 Laval in Quebec City claimed the number one spot, marking it as the best employer in all of Canada. Founded in 1663, it&#8217;s North America&#8217;s first French-language university and currently serves almost 50,000 students, including more than 6,000 from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The university offers over 400 academic programs, maintains 750 partnerships with universities across 70 countries, and receives more than $200 million in research funding annually. This isn&#8217;t Laval&#8217;s first Forbes recognition \u2014 it also ranked #1 for Canada&#8217;s Best Employers For Company Culture in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke landed at #3, while Parks Canada (headquartered in Gatineau) secured #4, and Montreal&#8217;s Concordia University rounded out the top five at #5.<\/p>\n<p>The full Quebec list<\/p>\n<p>Here are all 34 Quebec-based companies that made Forbes&#8217; Canada&#8217;s Best Employers 2026 ranking:<\/p>\n<p>  Universit\u00e9 Laval (#1) Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke (#3) Parks Canada (#4) Concordia University (#5) Canadian Heritage (#11) Hydro-Qu\u00e9bec (#12) Industrial Alliance (#32) Desjardins (#37) Elections Canada (#39) CIMA+ (#65) Business Development Bank of Canada (#67) Pfizer (#77) National Bank of Canada (#99) Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al (#105) Goodfellow (#122) Pharmascience (#126) ACCEO Solutions (#133) Cogeco (#147) Bombardier (#160) Environment and Climate Change Canada (#163) Pratt &amp; Whitney Canada (#168) CAA Quebec (#178) Beneva (#187) CGI (#189) Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al (#224) La Vie En Rose (#225) Inditex (#246) McGill University (#252) Canadian Intellectual Property Office (#266) Ultramar (#281) Transat A.T. (#291) Jewish General Hospital (#294) Familiprix (#300)You can explore the entire ranking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/lists\/canada-best-employers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forbes just released its 2026 ranking of Canada&#8217;s Best Employers, and Quebec had a strong showing with 34&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[105379,121937,49,48,876,295,1569,66],"class_list":["post-424819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-best-companies-in-canada","tag-best-companies-in-quebec","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-environment","tag-forbes","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}