BATON ROUGE, La.—Warby Parker, Modernizing Medicine and Starmount Life Insurance Company have all been named top job creators in Inc. magazine’s second annual Hire Power Awards.  While Modernizing Medicine and Starmount were named in sub-categories for top job creation, Warby Parker was the only vision-related company to make the list of Top 100 Creators throughout the country at number 47. Warby Parker was also named second job creator for companies sized 26 to 50, third in the consumer products and services category, and fourth in New York.

Electronic health record company and partner in the Eyefinity EHR program, Modernizing Medicine was named the number 12 job creator for companies sized 26 to 50, number 14 in the health category, and number 16 in Florida. Starmount Life Insurance Company, whose sister company Always Care Benefits Inc. provides vision coverage and other ancillary benefits, was named the second highest job creator in Louisiana and the number nine job creator in the insurance category.

The Inc. Hire Power Awards rank companies who have created the most full-time U.S. jobs over a three-year period. In order to qualify, a company must have submitted an employee verification form, be U.S. based, privately held, founded prior to 2009, and employ at least 50 full-time U.S. based employees in 2012.