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How is the Overall Score Calculated in the Best Places to Work Overview Report?

Learn how the Best Places to Work Overall Score summarizes employee responses across six engagement categories as a score out of 100.

Last Updated: October 5, 2026

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Overview

The Overall Score provides a high-level summary of how employees responded to the Best Places to Work survey. The score is based on the scaled survey items across six engagement categories. Each item uses a six-point agreement scale, and the final result is displayed as a score out of 100.

How the Overall Score is Calculated

At a high level, the Overall Score is calculated as follows:

  1. Responses to all scaled (strongly agree to strongly disagree strongly) survey items are compiled
    • The Best Places to Work survey includes approximately 39 scaled survey items scored for the contest.
  2. An average is calculated on the 1–6 scale
    • Responses are assigned the following numeric values: Strongly Disagree = 1, Disagree = 2, Somewhat Disagree = 3, Somewhat Agree = 4, Agree = 5, and Strongly Agree = 6.
    • Those values are averaged across all scored responses.
  3. The average is converted to a 100-point scale
    • The converted value is displayed as the Overall Score in the Overview Report.

FAQs

Is the Overall Score the same as favorability?

No. Favorability reflects the percentage of positive responses (i.e strongly agree or agree) only. The Best Places to Work Overall Score uses the average of all responses from the scaled questions and converts that average to a 100-point scale. 

Which survey questions contribute to the Overall Score?

The Overall Score includes the scaled agreement questions scored for the Best Places to Work contest across six engagement categories.