LinkedIn Top Companies 2024: The 25 best workplaces to grow your career in Canada
Our annual LinkedIn Top Companies list highlights the 25 best workplaces to grow your career in Canada right now. Fueled by unique LinkedIn data, the methodology looks at different aspects of career progression like how employees are getting promoted, adding new skills and more. You can read more about how we compile the list at the bottom of the article.
This year’s honourees are proving that investment in the employee experience is vital in today’s employment landscape — whether it’s launching upskilling initiatives to accelerate employees’ AI proficiency or offering flexible working arrangements. These are the companies leading the way in not only attracting workers, but retaining them in our ever-changing world of work.
At each company, you’ll find actionable insights on the roles, skills and functions in demand. See a company that sparks your interest? Take a look at their current job openings and connect with employees you may know, or use the new I’m Interested button to signal your interest to recruiters.
Here are this year’s 25 #LinkedInTopCompanies in Canada.
1. AstraZeneca
 | AstraZenecaPharmaceutical Manufacturing |
Top Canadian locations: Toronto, Montreal, Hamilton | Most notable skills: Urology, Cardiology, Oncology, Neurology, Pharmaceutics | Most common job titles: Clinical Trial Manager, Medical Sales Representative, Salesperson | Largest job functions: Research, Sales, Healthcare Services | Hybrid job availability: 13% | About AstraZeneca: AstraZeneca is a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Cambridge, England, and it expanded its Mississauga research facility in 2023. Its areas of focus for treatments include oncology, biopharmaceuticals and rare diseases.
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2. Specsavers
 | SpecsaversRetail |
Top Canadian locations: Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary | Most notable skills: Optometry, Opticianry, Apparel, Retail, Recruiting | Most common job titles: Optician, Optometrist | Largest job functions: Healthcare Services, Sales, Consulting | Hybrid job availability: 14% | About Specsavers: Specsavers is the world’s largest privately-owned optical group, delivering vision and hearing care in 11 countries. The British brand offers eyecare, contact lenses, glasses and sunglasses.
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3. RBC
 | RBCBanking |
Top Canadian locations: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver | Most notable skills: Commercial Banking, Investment Banking, Capital Markets, Criminal Law, Economics | Most common job titles: Financial Advisor, Banking Advisor, Financial Planner | Largest job functions: Finance, Sales, Information Technology | Hybrid job availability: 58% | About RBC: RBC is Canada’s biggest bank, and among the largest in the world. It has 17 million clients in Canada and 28 other countries.
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4. Equitable Bank
Top Canadian locations: Toronto | Most notable skills: Criminal Law, Commercial Banking, Capital Markets, Investment Banking, Financial Accounting | Most common job titles: Mortgage Loan Officer, Mortgage Underwriter, Customer Service Representative | Largest job functions: Finance, Information Technology, Business Development | Hybrid job availability: 85% | About EQ Bank: Equitable Bank offers residential and commercial lending as well as high-interest savings products and GICs. Its digital arm, EQ Bank, specializes in personal banking.
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5. RSM
Top Canadian locations: Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton | Most notable skills: Tax Accounting, Auditing, Financial Accounting, Bookkeeping, Capital Markets | Most common job titles: Accounting Associate, Audit Associate, Tax Accountant | Largest job functions: Accounting, Finance, Entrepreneurship | Hybrid job availability: 95% | About RSM: RSM provides audit, tax and consulting services, specializing in the middle market. It operates in 120 countries around the world.
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6. Gallagher
 | GallagherInsurance |
Top Canadian locations: Toronto, Calgary, London | Most notable skills: Insurance, Capital Markets, Compensation & Benefits, Inside Sales, Sales Leads | Most common job titles: Account Manager, Account Executive, Client Services Analyst | Largest job functions: Business Development, Sales, Finance | Hybrid job availability: 37% | About Gallagher: Gallagher is an American multinational insurance brokerage, risk management and human resources and benefits consulting company. Gallagher advises businesses on commercial, personal and employee benefits as well as on human resources issues.
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7. McKinsey & Company
Top Canadian locations: Toronto, Montreal, Calgary | Most notable skills: Economics, Chemical Processing, Mining, Scientific Computing, Management Consulting | Most common job titles: Business Analyst, Engagement Manager, Executive Assistant | Largest job functions: Business Development, Research, Entrepreneurship | About McKinsey & Company: McKinsey & Company is a multinational management consulting firm which provides consulting services to companies, governments and institutions. The company’s responsibilities range from developing marketing strategies to analyzing and interpreting data and solving management problems.
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8. BHP
Top Canadian locations: Saskatoon, Toronto | Most notable skills: Mining, Earth Science, Drilling Engineering, Environmental Consulting, Oil & Gas | Most common job titles: Superintendent, Project Manager | Largest job functions: Education, Operations, Engineering | Hybrid job availability: 69% | About BHP: BHP is a global resources provider. It is a supplier of copper for renewable energy, nickel for electric vehicles, potash for farming as well as iron ore and metallurgical coal for steel.
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9. HOOPP
Top Canadian locations: Toronto | Most notable skills: Capital Markets, Economics, Investment Banking, Financial Accounting, Mobile Application Development | Most common job titles: Software Engineer, Business Analyst, Customer Service Specialist | Largest job functions: Finance, Business Development, Engineering | Hybrid job availability: 81% | About HOOPP: The Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP) provides defined benefit pension plans for the healthcare workers in the province. It is one of the country’s largest pension providers and serves 670 employers in Ontario.
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10. Brookfield Asset Management
Top Canadian locations: Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton | Most notable skills: Property Management, Real Estate, Auditing, Tax Accounting, Financial Accounting | Most common job titles: Financial Analyst, Accountant, Property Manager | Largest job functions: Finance, Operations, Accounting | About Brookfield Asset Management: Brookfield Asset Management is an alternative investment manager with a global focus. It has over $800 billion in assets under management spanning more than 30 countries.
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11. BNP Paribas
Top Canadian locations: Montreal, Toronto | Most notable skills: Criminal Law, Capital Markets, Commercial Banking, Economics, Financial Accounting | Most common job titles: Business Analyst, Compliance Manager | Largest job functions: Finance Information, Technology, Business Development | Hybrid job availability: 43% | About BNP Paribas: BNP Paribas is a French bank with global operations in 65 countries. It provides commercial and personal banking as well as corporate and institutional services.
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12. TD
Top Canadian locations: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver | Most notable skills: Commercial Banking, Investment Banking, Capital Markets, Economics, Criminal Law | Most common job titles: Customer Service Specialist, Financial Advisor, Banking Associate | Largest job functions: Finance, Customer Success and Support, Sales | Hybrid job availability: 28% | About TD: TD is a multinational banking and financial services corporation, offering a range of financial services through its three main business arms – Canadian Retail, U.S. Retail, and Wholesale Banking. It serves more than 15 million Canadians.
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13. Mastercard
Top Canadian locations: Toronto, Vancouver | Most notable skills: Mobile Application Development, Software Testing, Affiliate Marketing, Web Development, Human Computer Interaction | Most common job titles: Software Engineer, Director of Information Technology, Product Manager | Largest job functions: Engineering, Information Technology, Consulting | Hybrid job availability: 100% | About Mastercard: Mastercard is a payment network that processes transactions made on credit, debit and prepaid cards. It operates as the middleman between customers, merchants and card providers.
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14. EY
Top Canadian locations: Toronto, Montreal, Calgary | Most notable skills: Tax Accounting, Tax Law, Auditing, Investor Relations, Financial Accounting | Most common job titles: Accountant, Information Technology Consultant, Audit Supervisor | Largest job functions: Accounting, Consulting, Information Technology | Hybrid job availability: 6% | About EY: EY is one of the top-four accounting firms in Canada and provides assurance, consulting, strategy and transactions and tax services to clients.
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15. Info-Tech Research Group
Top Canadian locations: Toronto, London | Most notable skills: Sales Leads, Competitive Strategies, Compensation & Benefits, Affiliate Marketing, Inside Sales | Most common job titles: Director Business Strategy, Sales Director, Director of Customer Service | Largest job functions: Business Development, Sales, Operations | Hybrid job availability: 27% | About Info-Tech Research Group: Info-Tech Research Group produces research reports designed to help industrial and technology companies make strategic decisions.
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16. Richter
Top Canadian locations: Montreal, Toronto | Most notable skills: Tax Accounting, Auditing, Financial Accounting, Bookkeeping, Accounts Payable | Most common job title: Accountant | Largest job functions: Accounting, Finance, Business Development | Hybrid job availability: 90% | About Richter: Richter is Canada’s only business/family office and provides strategic advice on business matters and on families’ financial and personal objectives. It works with entrepreneurs, private clients, business owners and business families.
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17. Pfizer
Top Canadian locations: Montreal, Toronto | Most notable skills: Oncology, Cardiology, Neurology, Pharmaceutics, Biomedical Engineering | Most common job titles: Clinical Fellow, Medical Advisor, Brand Manager | Largest job functions: Sales, Healthcare Services, Research | About Pfizer: Pfizer is one of the world’s biggest biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. The New York- based company’s products treat a wide range of conditions.
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18. 1Password
Top Canadian locations: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver | Most notable skills: Affiliate Marketing, Sales Leads, Growth Strategies, Inside Sales, Music | Most common job titles: Account Manager, Software Engineer, Business Development Representative | Largest job functions: Sales, Engineering, Customer Success and Support | About 1Password: 1Password is a password manager to protect sensitive information through encryption. It allows passwords to live in one place and integrates with Okta, Slack and software.
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19. Interac
Top Canadian locations: Toronto, Ottawa | Most notable skills: Computer Security, Commercial Banking, Documentation, Information Management, Computer Networking | Most common job title: Software Engineer | Largest job functions: Engineering, Information Technology, Finance | Hybrid job availability: 31% | About Interac: Interac facilitates spending, saving and sending money through products like its debit cards and e-transfer. About 300 financial institutions are part of its network.
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20. Hitachi
Top Canadian locations: Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver | Most notable skills: Power Systems, Utilities, Drilling Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electronic Control Systems | Most common job titles: Account Manager, Project Manager | Largest job functions: Engineering, Operations, Sales | About Hitachi: Hitachi has a wide range of offerings in areas including appliances, electrical and electronics manufacturing. The company employs nearly 300,000 people globally.
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21. Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Top Canadian locations: Toronto, Montreal, Calgary | Most notable skills: Economics, Management Consulting, Growth Strategies, Artificial Intelligence, Capital Markets | Most common job titles: Technical Support Consultant, Managing Director | Largest job functions: Consulting, Program and Project Management, Information Technology | About Boston Consulting Group (BCG): Boston Consulting Group is an American multinational management consulting firm headquartered in Boston. It has offices in more than 50 countries, BCG advises companies on data science capabilities, IT architecture design and business strategy.
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22. Fidelity Canada
Top Canadian Locations: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver | Most notable skills: Customer Services, Quantitative Analytics, Business Analysis | Most common job titles: District Vice President, Operations Representative, Business Development Manager | Largest job functions: Finance, Business Development, Information Technology | About Fidelity Canada: Fidelity Canada provides investments through a range of portfolios and services. It’s made up of Fidelity Investments Canada ULC (FIC) and Fidelity Clearing Canada ULC (FCC).
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23. Workday
Top Canadian locations: Vancouver, Toronto, Victoria | Most notable skills: Mobile Application Development, Compensation & Benefits, Human Computer Interaction, Software Development Life Cycle, Artificial Intelligence | Most common job titles: Software Engineer, Product Manager, Software Account Executive | Largest job functions: Engineering, Sales, Product Management | Hybrid job availability: 97% | About Workday: Workday is an American multinational, cloud-based software service that specializes in financial, human resources and student management. Workday’s software is widely used worldwide by medium to large-sized businesses and institutions for managing payroll, benefits, HR and employee data.
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24. Deloitte
Top Canadian locations: Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver | Most notable skills: Tax Law, Tax Accounting, Auditing, Investor Relations, Financial Accounting | Most common job titles: Accountant, Business Analyst, Tax Analyst | Largest job functions: Accounting Consulting, Information Technology | About Deloitte: Deloitte is a British multinational accounting and professional services company network which provides auditing, assurance, consulting, financial and risk advice, as well as tax services to public and private clients worldwide.
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25. Scotiabank
Top Canadian locations: Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal | Most notable skills Commercial Banking, Investment Banking, Criminal Law, Capital Markets, Debt Collection | Most common job titles: Financial Advisor, Customer Service Specialist, Business Analyst | Largest job functions: Finance, Customer Success and Support, Information Technology | About Scotiabank: Scotiabank is a multinational banking and financial services institution offering customers a wide range of personal and business banking, wealth management, corporate banking and other financial services. Scotiabank’s four core business branches are Canadian Banking, Global Wealth Management, International Banking and Global Banking and Markets.
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Methodology
Our methodology uses LinkedIn data to rank companies based on eight pillars that have been shown to lead to career progression: ability to advance; skills growth; company stability; external opportunity; company affinity; gender diversity; educational background and employee presence in the country. Ability to advance tracks employee promotions within a company and when they move to a new company, based on standardized job titles. Skills growth looks at how employees across the company are gaining skills while employed at the company, using standardized LinkedIn skills. Company stability tracks attrition over the past year, as well as the percentage of employees that stay at the company at least three years. External opportunity looks at Recruiter outreach across employees at the company, signaling demand for workers coming from these companies. Company affinity, which seeks to measure how supportive a company’s culture is, looks at connection volume on LinkedIn among employees, controlled for company size. Gender diversity measures gender parity within a company and its subsidiaries. Educational background examines the variety of educational attainment among employees, from no degree up to Ph.D. levels, reflecting a commitment to recruiting a wide range of professionals. Finally, employee presence in the country looks at the company’s number of employees in the country relative to other companies, as a means of capturing companies that provide a diverse work environment and more opportunities for career advancement and networking.
To be eligible, companies must have had at least 500 employees in the country as of Dec. 31, 2023.
Attrition can be no higher than 10% over the methodology time period, based on LinkedIn data. Similarly, organizations that have had layoffs of 10% or more of their workforce based on corporate announcements or public, reliable sources between Jan. 1, 2023 and the list launch, are not eligible. These decisions are made by the LinkedIn News team based on company statements and/or reputable news outlets. Only parent companies rank on the list; majority-owned subsidiaries and data about those subsidiaries are incorporated into the parent company score. The methodology time frame is Jan. 1, 2023 through Dec. 31, 2023. This analysis represents the world seen through the lens of LinkedIn data, drawn from the anonymized and aggregated profile information of LinkedIn's members around the world.
We exclude all staffing and recruiting firms, educational institutions and government agencies. We also exclude LinkedIn, its parent company Microsoft and Microsoft subsidiaries.
About company insights
Company insights were sourced from LinkedIn Talent Insights and include the parent company and majority-owned subsidiaries. Data reflects aggregated public member data from active LinkedIn profiles in the relevant country and includes employee profiles associated with the parent company and majority-owned subsidiaries on LinkedIn. We exclude members who identify as interns or contractors. All insights reflect a 12-month time period looking back from January 2024. Top locations were categorized as the regions or cities that employed the largest percentage of each company. Skills data was derived from measuring the most frequent unique skills among a company’s employees, relative to other companies. Most common job titles represent the occupations most common within each company. Largest job function measures the function area most prevalent within each company. Remote and hybrid job availabilitymeasures jobs flagged as “remote” or “hybrid” by the company or containing similar keywords.
Reported by: Jessy Bains
Methodology and insights by: Nadine Fares
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1wBanks and big corps are the best places to work in Canada? Are we serious here? There are hundreds of better companies supporting our future. Where is the real list LinkedIn
UX Architect + Inventor
1wOther than a few banks most companies aren't Canadian-based. Have we lost our way?
I wonder how much correlation there is between this list and the top 25 corporate customer on LinkedIn for job postings, paid accounts, advertising, etc.
Founder & CEO @ Move Add Change | Board Director @ Ontario Centre of Innovation
2wWith the Canadian economy amounting to, essentially, "five banks / five families", it is interesting to see that two banks missed the list and all five families.