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.
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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

  1. Intech Hawaii
  2. JR Doran Inc. / Ceramic Tile Plus and Exclusively Yours
  3. Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate / Advantage Realty

Medium Employer

  1. Premier Solutions HI LLC
  2. Pacific Biodiesel
  3. Ronald N.S. Ho & Associates Inc.

Large Employer

  1. Parents And Children Together
  2. Panda Restaurant Group
  3. Bayer Hawaii
Healthiest Companies

Small Employer

  1. Lawson & Associates Inc.
  2. Servpac Inc.
  3. Kilauea Pest Control

Medium Employer

  1. Hawaii Mortgage Experts LLC
  2. Pacific Biodiesel
  3. American Floor & Home

Large Employer

  1. Panda Restaurant Group
  2. Bayer Hawaii
  3. Child & Family Service
Best Places To Work for Women
  1. WestPac Wealth Partners
  2. G70
  3. Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate / Advantage Realty
  4. Express Employment Professionals of Hawaii
  5. Pacxa
Best Companies for LGBTQ+ Equality
  1. 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.

  1. I feel I am valued in this organization.
  2. I have confidence in the leadership of this organization.
  3. I like the type of work that I do.
  4. Most days, I feel I have made progress at work.
  5. Overall, I’m satisfied with this organization’s benefits package.
  6. This organization helps me pursue a career path that aligns with my skills and interests.
  7. This organization treats me like a person, not a number.
  8. At this organization, employees have fun at work.
  9. The leaders of this organization care about their employees’ wellbeing.
  10. 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.

 

 

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