Pinnacle Financial Partners is the No. 1 Best Place to Work in Jacksonville

Firm receives top ranking in its first time competing in the awards

Pinnacle Financial Partners is the No. 1 Best Place to Work in Jacksonville, as announced by the Jacksonville Business Journal today. This is the firm’s first year to be nominated for the list, competing in the medium-sized company category (50-99 associates) and evaluated by Best Places to Work®.

“What an incredible honor for our team to be recognized for their engagement in making Pinnacle the best place to work,” said Scott Keith, Pinnacle’s regional president in North Florida. “Every day, our associates put teamwork and caring for each other first so our clients get our best. We’re intentional about creating a workplace culture that prioritizes personal connection, and it doesn’t take long for new associate to see why it’s been a winning formula for Pinnacle for 25 years.”

Pinnacle associates in Jacksonville and Ponte Vedra Beach gave the workplace culture high marks on the anonymous Best Places to Work survey:

“I am only beginning my fourth week at Pinnacle Financial Partners, and I can already feel the difference in a positive way vs. everywhere else that I have been employed. I asked my wife, ‘Where has this opportunity been for my entire professional career?’ I am more satisfied and happy working at Pinnacle Financial Partners than any other workplace I have been, spanning a career of 38 years.”

“I have never had a work experience this fulfilling. Pinnacle has a founder-led culture and we are all stockholders...owners in the firm. This applies to every single person, not just leadership and members of executive team. The day-to-day is very entrepreneurial, and we win together, lose together as a team.”

“Pinnacle leadership does not just say what our values and culture mean to them; they act on it! I truly love working here and I am honored to be with Pinnacle because Pinnacle really cares about me and my co-workers. We are a family that cares about each other.”

The Best Places to Work winners are determined exclusively on the basis of employees' responses to standard scaled survey questions on the Best Places to Work Survey, administered and calculated by third-party employee engagement firm Quantum Workplace. The survey consists of closed and open-ended questions on culture, camaraderie, leadership transparency and other criteria.

Pinnacle entered North Florida in late 2023 by recruiting local financial services leaders to build a team and open an office in Jacksonville.

The firm began operations in a single location in downtown Nashville, TN in October 2000 and has since grown to approximately $56.0 billion in assets as of Sept. 30, 2025.  As the second-largest bank holding company headquartered in Tennessee, Pinnacle operates in several primarily urban markets across the Southeast.

Additional information concerning Pinnacle, which is included in the Nasdaq Financial-100 Index, can be accessed at www.pnfp.com.