Pinnacle Financial Partners Is the No. 4 Best Bank to Work for in the Nation

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Pinnacle Financial Partners Is the No. 4 Best Bank to Work for in the Nation

2025-11-13 02:07 Last Updated At：15:20

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 12, 2025--

Today American Banker announced that Pinnacle Financial Partners (Nasdaq/NGS: PNFP) earned the No. 4 spot on the publication’s list of the nation’s Best Banks to Work For in 2025, up from No. 5 from 2024. No other bank in the top 40 is anywhere close to Pinnacle’s asset size, with only two of a similar size at on the entire list of 90—and those coming in at Nos. 44 and 74.

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“We founded the firm 25 years ago with a vision of being the best bank and the best place to work for experienced professionals,” said Terry Turner, Pinnacle’s president and CEO. “Awards like Best Banks to Work for validate that we’re keeping that priority straight. When associates feel valued, trusted and supported and all pulling together in the same direction, the result is that our clients get the best we have to offer.”

The annual list is compiled by the magazine and Best Companies Group. Pinnacle is No. 1 in its size category of banks with $10 billion or more in assets and has ranked No.1 or No. 2 in that size category since the inception of these rankings. Aside from Pinnacle, which has $56 billion in assets, the next largest bank in the top 20 has $15.9 billion. The highest-ranking bank of any comparable asset size was ranked at No. 44 with $65.9 billion. This is the firm’s 13 th year to appear on the list, having been ranked ever since the program started in 2013.

This is the latest in a string of national and regional workplace awards Pinnacle has earned in 2025, including:

To be eligible for the Best Banks to Work For list, firms must have at least 50 employees working in the United States and be commercial or retail banks, or the commercial or retail banking units of diversified financial services companies. Selection is a two-step process. First, participating banks are evaluated on their workplace practices and policies. Second, employees are surveyed to assess their experiences in and attitudes about the workplace. Combined scores determine the final ranking.

Best Companies Group manages the overall registration and survey process, as well as analyzing the data and determining final ranking. To learn more about the process and Best Banks to Work For program, visit www.BestBankstoWorkFor.com.

Pinnacle Financial Partners provides a full range of banking, investment, trust, mortgage and insurance products and services designed for businesses and their owners and individuals interested in a comprehensive relationship with their financial institution. The firm is the No. 1 bank in the Nashville-Murfreesboro-Franklin MSA, according to 2025 deposit data from the FDIC. Pinnacle is No. 9 on FORTUNE magazine’s 2025 list of 100 Best Companies to Work For® in the U.S., its ninth consecutive appearance and was recognized by American Banker as one of America’s Best Banks to Work For 13 years in a row and No. 1 among banks with more than $10 billion in assets in 2025.

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.

Why 2025 is the year of the first-round quarterback in the NFL

The 2025 NFL season was dominated by first-round quarterbacks with old veterans like Matthew Stafford and a new generation featuring Drake Maye and Caleb Williams taking center stage.

The playoffs should be no different with a record-tying 12 of the 14 teams that qualified for the postseason set to use a first-round pick as their starting quarterback. The only year in the Super Bowl era with two or fewer non-first-round QBs starting a playoff game came in 2024 when Jalen Hurts and Russell Wilson did it.

The NFL set a record this season with 219 of the 272 games won by a quarterback who was drafted in round one, besting the mark of 204 set the previous year.

And the record isn't about a longer season or more teams as the 80.5% of games won by a first-round quarterback was easily the highest since the start of the common draft in 1967. The only other season with more than 70% of games won by a first-round QB came in 2024 when the rate was 75%.

The rate was less than half of games as recently as 2008 and down at 23% in 2001, when Tom Brady first became a starter in New England a year after being a sixth-round pick.

The only outlier will be the wild-card game on Sunday in Philadelphia when San Francisco’s former seventh-round pick Brock Purdy takes on former second-rounder Hurts and the Eagles.

Those teams have shown there is an alternate path to success as Hurts and Purdy have represented the NFC in the last three Super Bowls. But unless the winner of that game also wins the divisional round, this season will join the 2010 season as the only ones in the Super Bowl era with all four starting QBs in the conference title game being first-rounders.

This postseason will feature four quarterbacks picked first overall with Stafford and Carolina's Bryce Young facing off in the 13th playoff matchup of No. 1 pick quarterbacks in the Super Bowl era. Williams and Jacksonville's Trevor Lawrence are the other two top picks.

There were five others picked in the top 10, including 2024 No. 3 pick Maye and 2018 No. 7 pick Josh Allen of Buffalo. Houston's C.J. Stroud went second in 2023, while Sam Darnold was picked third by the Jets in 2018 and Justin Herbert went sixth to the Chargers in 2020.

Three others went later in the first with Denver's Bo Nix going 12th in 2024 and two QBs picked by Green Bay: Aaron Rodgers at No. 24 in 2005 and Jordan Love at No. 26 in 2020.

Then there's Hurts at No. 53 in 2020 and Purdy, who was Mr. Irrelevant as the 262nd and final pick of the 2022 draft.

Myles Garrett set the single-season sack record with 23, while several other league leaders also had some noteworthy performances.

Stafford led the NFL with 46 touchdown passes and 4,707 yards passing, while throwing only eight interceptions for the Los Angeles Rams. Stafford joined Brady in his record-setting 2007 season as the only players to lead the league in TD passes and yards while throwing eight or fewer interceptions.

Maye, who is second in AP NFL MVP odds at BetMGM to Stafford, became the seventh player to throw for at least 4,000 yards and 30 TDs in a season before turning 24 and the first to do it with fewer than 10 interceptions.

Maye also led the NFL by completing 72% of his passes and with a 113.5 passer rating. The only player to exceed both those marks in the same season was Drew Brees in 2018 and '19.

Buffalo's James Cook edged out Baltimore's Derrick Henry for the rushing title with 1,621 yards to Henry's 1,595. Henry had his record-setting fourth season with at least 1,500 yards rushing and 15 TD runs, including back-to-back campaigns in his 30s. No other player has done that even once after turning 30.

Jaxon Smith-Njigba set a Seattle record and led the NFL with 1,793 yards receiving.

Arizona's Trey McBride finished with 126 catches, the most ever for a tight end and three shy of Puka Nacua's league-leading total this season.

Houston's Ka’imi Fairbairn tied the record set by David Akers for San Francisco in 2011 when he made 44 field goals.

The tweaks to the kickoff rule this season had the desired effect when it came to the rate of returns.

Moving the touchback spot from the 30 to the 35 led to significantly more returns as kicking teams opted against touchbacks. In all, 74.5% of kickoffs were returned this season, more than doubling the rate of 32.8% in 2024 in the first year of the so-called “dynamic kickoff.” It was the highest rate of returns since 2010 when it was at 80.1%.

The NFL changed the rules for kickoffs following a record-low 21.8% return rate in 2023, hoping to increase returns while limiting injuries.

While there were only six return touchdowns this season, there were 87 returns of at least 40 yards for the most in any season since 2010 with 114.

The average starting field position after kicks was 30.8 yards from the end zone, a slight increase from 2024 and more than 5 yards better than 2023. That helped contribute to the highest-scoring season in the NFL since 2020, when teams averaged 23 points per game, up from 21.8 in the last year before the rule change.

The Detroit Lions went from NFC North champions last season to the basement this season.

They still finished with a better record than any team in the NFC South.

Those two divisions provided quite a dichotomy this season with all four teams in the North finishing with winning records and all four teams in the South having losing marks. Carolina won the division with an 8-9 record, becoming the fifth team to make the postseason with a losing record in a non-strike shortened season in NFL history.

Two of those four previous teams won their postseason opener with Carolina (7-8-1) beating Arizona (11-5) in 2014 and Seattle (7-9) topping New Orleans (11-5) in 2010.

The Lions went 9-8 but missed the playoffs as the NFC North joined the 2023 AFC North as the only divisions in the Super Bowl era with every team finishing with a winning mark.

Detroit was the second last-place team to finish with a better record than a first-place team with Washington (8-8-1) doing it in 2022 when Tampa Bay (8-9) won the NFC South.

The Bears won the NFC North with an 11-6 mark despite losing four of six division games. The only other teams since the merger to have a losing record in division games and still finish first were the 2010 Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco in 1971.

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