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The Best Places to Work in Idaho® (BPTW) is a commercial brand owned by POPULUS®, a for-profit human-behavior research enterprise.

The BPTW produces five annual ranked lists of employers. Four of these lists are geographical subsets of the state, referred to as "Local Contests" (East, North, South, and Southwest). The fifth list covers the entire state and is referred to as a "Statewide Contest".

Those contests with sufficient employer participation will be further divided by employer size with up to five (5) employer size categories.

The employer size categories are shown below.
 * Micro (10 - 19)
 * Small (20 - 49)
 * Medium (50 - 99)
 * Large (100 - 249)
 * Macro (250 and more)

Employers are ranked based on a proprietary algorithm intended to measure their level of employee engagement. Employee responses are gathered with a Web-based survey sent to all Idaho employees. Not all employers who participate are ranked.

What is an Idaho Employee?

With the growing incidence of employees who do not work full time in the office, the definition of a geographically bound employee has become more fluid than it once was. Today, the BPTW uses the following definition of an "Idaho employee". An Idaho employee is one who either lives in the state, is assigned to a facility located in the state, or reports to a person assigned to a facility in the state.

How are the Rankings Developed?

BPTW surveys all Idaho employees during January and February using a Web-based survey. Employee Engagement is measured using a proprietary algorithm.

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In addition to the annual rankings, a variety of reports are produced which benchmark each employer's results against their peer employers who participated that year.