American Riviera Bank is proud to announce its recognition as one of the 2025 Best Banks to Work For, as determined by American Banker in collaboration with Best Companies Group. This prestigious list identifies financial institutions that excel in fostering positive and supportive work environments for their employees.
The 2025 Best Banks to Work For ranking, which features 90 distinguished institutions, is based on a comprehensive evaluation process. This includes an anonymous employee survey and a thorough assessment of the benefits and perks offered by each bank. The complete list is available for review at American Banker.
"The banks recognized as Best Banks to Work For are institutions employees want to join and stay because they understand how to give workers reasons to find purpose in their jobs."
Chana Schoenberger, editor-in-chief of American Banker
On the 2025 list, American Riviera Bank ranked No. 16 overall and No. 13 by asset size. American Riviera Bank was the only California-based bank to rank in the top 20. The survey and awards program is designed to identify and honor banks with the best cultures for helping employees thrive.
Key initiatives that contributed to this achievement include:
Determining the Best Banks to Work For involved a two-step process. The first consisted of evaluating each participating bank’s workplace policies, practices, and demographics. This part of the process was worth approximately 25% of the total evaluation. The second consisted of employee surveys aimed at assessing the experiences and attitudes of individual employees with respect to their workplace. This part of the process was worth approximately 75% of the total evaluation. The combined scores determined the final ranking.
To be considered for participation, banks had to have at least 50 employees working in the U.S. and been in business for at least one year. Best Companies Group managed the registration and survey process and also analyzed the data to determine the final ranking.
For more information on the Best Banks to Work For program, visit www.BestBankstoWorkfor.com.
About American Banker
American Banker empowers banking professionals with unique analysis and insight into the ideas transforming their business and industry. Across its journalism, events, research and benchmarking, it helps drive the way forward through the complexity of business innovation, retail and commercial disruption, technology, regulation and reform. With a banking community 850k strong, American Banker’s content connects leaders online, in person and in print every day.
About Best Companies Group
Since 2004, Best Companies Group has specialized in identifying and recognizing great employers to work for. We are an independent research firm that ranks companies based on our established research methodology. Our surveys provide actionable, hard-to-obtain data that companies use to improve employee recruitment and retention.
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