This year, 609 companies earned the top score of 100, based on such factors as offering equivalent spousal and partner medical benefits for LGBTQ employees, offering transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage and prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity or expression.

Improving

The figures are a marked improvement on the 517 that received the top rating last year, and represent the highest number of top-rated businesses since the first Index in 2002.

Applying policies

‘The top-scoring companies on this year’s CEI are not only establishing policies that affirm and include employees here in the United States, they are applying these policies to their operations around the globe and impacting millions of people beyond our shores,’ said HRC President Chad Griffin. ‘In addition, many of these companies have also become vocal advocates for equality in the public square, including the dozens that have signed on to amicus briefs in vital Supreme Court cases and the 106 corporate supporters of the Equality Act.’