2025 Best Commuter Businesses
Having a sustainable transportation program is a benefit to employees, which allows employers to attract and retain top talent, expand labor pools, reduce parking demand, and demonstrate environmental responsibility.
Ride Together Pierce, a Pierce County program that encourages the use of sustainable transportation options, annually recognizes Pierce County employers who are putting in effort to increase sustainable commutes taken to their worksite(s) through the annual Best Commuter Business program.
These Best Commuter Businesses are determined by participating employers’ commuter program elements (such as subsidies, teleworking, fleet vehicles, etc.), performance (employee participation in the program) and employer engagement. Click here to learn more about how employers are scored.
The program, now recognizing its fifth round of designees, is excited to announce the 36 worksites who showed great effort in reducing their employees’ drive-alone rates in 2025.
| EMPLOYER | LOCATION |
|---|---|
AmazonBFI1 |
Sumner |
AmazonBFI3 |
DuPont |
AmazonBFI9 |
DuPont |
City of Lakewood |
Lakewood |
City of Puyallup |
Puyallup |
City of TacomaCenter for Urban Waters |
Tacoma |
City of TacomaMunicipal Building |
Tacoma |
City of TacomaTacoma Public Utilities |
Tacoma |
Infoblox |
Tacoma |
Joint Base Lewis-McChord |
Joint Base Lewis-McChord |
Madigan Army Medical Center |
Joint Base Lewis-McChord |
Pierce College |
Lakewood |
Pierce County1501 Market Street |
Tacoma |
Pierce CountyCentral Maintenance Facility |
Spanaway |
Pierce CountyRemann Hall |
Tacoma |
Pierce CountySoundview and Medical Examiner |
Tacoma |
Propel Insurance |
Tacoma |
Tacoma Public SchoolsAdministrative Building |
Tacoma |
The Boeing CompanyFrederickson |
Frederickson |
Toray Composite Materials America |
Frederickson |
University of Washington - Tacoma |
Tacoma |
Virginia Mason Franciscan HealthAdministrative Center |
Tacoma |
Virginia Mason Franciscan HealthSt. Anthony Hospital |
Gig Harbor |
Virginia Mason Franciscan HealthSt. Joseph Medical Center |
Tacoma |
WA Military DepartmentCamp Murray |
Camp Murray |
WA National GuardCamp Murray |
Camp Murray |
| EMPLOYER | LOCATION |
|---|---|
City of Gig Harbor |
Gig Harbor |
City of TacomaSolid Waste Utility |
Tacoma |
Pacific Lutheran University |
Tacoma |
Pierce CountyAnnex Campus |
Tacoma |
Pierce CountyDowntown Campus |
Tacoma |
Pierce CountyEnvironmental Services Building/Wastewater Treatment Plant |
University Place |
University of Puget Sound |
Tacoma |
| EMPLOYER | LOCATION |
|---|---|
Kaiser Permanente Washington |
Tacoma |
Pierce Transit |
Lakewood |
Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department |
Tacoma |