The University of Arizona (UA) Tech Park was named Tucson’s Most Innovative Workplace and the Best Workplace Culture in the Arizona Daily Star 2018 Reader’s Choice Awards.

The UA Tech Park is one of the largest employment centers in the region as host to 52 companies and organizations that employ 5,870 skilled workers from 15 different industries. The average wage of a worker at a UA Tech Park tenant is $74,028, more than 50 percent above the Pima County average of $47,327. 

The newspaper organizes the Readers’ Choice awards annually to recognize the “best of” Tucson businesses and organizations by surveying its readers. There were nearly 1,000 winners in 340 different award categories.