To understand the language of the Top 50 survey, view our Top 50 Glossary of Terms.
- Human Capital Metrics: gender and racial/ethnicity breakdown of representation in overall workforce representation, overall management, senior management, new hires, promotions, and 10% highest paid populations.
- Leadership Accountability: CEO/senior leadership commitment and accountability, board of directors, office of diversity and inclusion, diversity council practices, and representation metrics.
- Talent Programs: employee resource groups, mentoring, high potential and sponsorship programs, practices, and participation metrics.
- Workplace Practices: talent acquisition, talent management, onboarding, training, workforce development and engagement, LGBTQ, people with disabilities, military community, and employee benefits policies and practices.
- Supplier Diversity: spend with companies owned by people from underrepresented groups, accountability, and practices.
- Philanthropy: contributions to non-profit organizations focused on people from underrepresented groups, employee volunteerism, and matching programs and practices.
The Fair360 Top 50 list is derived exclusively from corporate assessment submissions. To be considered for a spot in the Fair360 Top 50, a company must score above average in all six areas. Companies are evaluated within the context of their own industries.
The data is purely empirical and objective. Companies that do business with Fair360 or have other business relationships receive NO preferential treatment.
No. There is no fee to participate. The assessment submission process is free. Every company that completes the assessment will receive a free report card assessing overall performance versus all participants and performance in the six key areas measured. Companies that want more in-depth benchmark comparisons should contact Top50@fair360.com.
All entries must be submitted on Friday, March 1, 2024, by 11:59 p.m. in your time zone to compete in the 2024 competition. However, eligible companies can take the survey year round.
Results for the 2024 survey will be announced May 2024 .
- Have at least 750 U.S. employees
- Submit a notarized form signed by either the CEO, the chief human resources officer (CHRO), or a corporate officer (other than the chief diversity officer or person responsible for diversity & inclusion) affirming that all data submitted is accurate. All data considered for Fair360 Top 50 rankings are U.S.-based.
- Complete NOD’s Disability Employment Tracker
- At least one employee from each company named to the Fair360 Top 50 must attend the Top 50 dinner in order to complete the application process and maintain a spot on the list.
No. You may only enter data about your programs and employee representation in the United States (including U.S. territories).
If you meet the above criteria and have provided your information to us, you will receive a link to participate in the Top 50 assessment. Additional instructions and information will be shared in that email.
No. We use Momentive AI. Our assessment software is web-based, and we cannot enter data for you. The assessment is filled out online, and a Word document is available for internal data-gathering purposes only.
There are some questions where we have required a response to prevent calculating null values into the ranking algorithm. The system will notify you of the questions that require a response. In these cases, we have either provided you an option to select no response or enter zero.
No. There is no character limit for those questions in which you have the opportunity to explain further.
Yes. There is a list of terms used in the assessment and the associated definition and/or scope as it relates to the Top 50 assessment. You can download it here.
The Top 50 assessment only captures information for formal programs that are organized, sanctioned and tracked by the company. This includes formal programs related to mentorship, sponsorship, Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), employee volunteerism, and giving. Please do not submit any information for programs and/or initiatives that are not formally tracked or recorded by your company.
Please send an email to top50@fair360.com with your question(s) and/or technical issue.
We look for statistical anomalies, outliers and illogical answers. We also spot-check assessment questions randomly. We may notify companies if there are anomalies in their submission prior to the assessment closing.
We also require companies to have their CEO or another company officer (does not include the head of/Chief Diversity Officer) sign a letter confirming that, to the best of their knowledge, the data submitted is correct. The letter must be notarized.
There are several events and milestones companies tell us happen internally:
- Kick-off emails or meetings to let departments know what is needed. Remember to include your legal department. (November).
- Data requests – sent to HR, supplier diversity, philanthropy, etc. (December – early January if using calendar year data).
- Data collection completion (typically by end of January).
- Draft assessment completion (first two weeks of February).
- Legal review – provide legal with enough time to review the responses before the submission deadline on March 1, 2024.
- CEO, CHRO or other corporate officer sign-off one to two weeks before the deadline.
Once the assessment submission process closes, Fair360 will only provide one PDF of the complete submission. Additionally, company report cards are no longer distributed once the following year’s Top 50 assessment process is open.
Yes, a company can do whatever they like with their report card.
Yes, you can have multiple people answering different parts of the survey at one time. Through the collaboration function, you can invite other people within your company to complete portions of the survey.
The survey is set up so there are different pages and as you work through the survey or save a particular page, then those responses are recorded. The only time that there could be a problem is if two individuals
were on the page at the same time. Then whoever entered or whoever pressed save last would have their information be the be what was recorded.No, there are no character limits.
Yes. It can be found within the assessment portal. Simply login and look for the pages button in the top right corner. All templates will be listed there.
You can give a collaborator editorial access to one or more tasks, but it is not possible to give them editorial access to just some questions within the task—it is all or none.
These are now entered into the survey directly to help avoid submission errors. They are no longer part of the template.
You will have to reach out to Fair360 and request access to those documents if you do not have them. We will assist you to the extent that we can in keeping in line with our privacy policy.
Yes, the platform allows you to set the level of access so that some users have editor access and others view only.
The previous calendar year. For example, the 2024 assessment is for January 1, 2023 – December 31, 2023.
The exact calculations change each year, but the first section (human capital) is weighted the most and the last section weighted the least. The sections decrease in weight as it continues.