The present research aims to identify and rank the factors affecting the empowerment of human capital in the cooperative sector. The statistical population included employees working in the cooperative sector (cooperatives and cooperative unions). A sample of 384 employees from various levels of responsibility in the cooperative sector in 26 counties of Khorasan Razavi province was selected for the study. A questionnaire was used to measure the variables. The Lizerl software was used for hypothesis testing. The results obtained from confirmatory factor analysis had the necessary reliability and with 95% confidence, it was stated that the questionnaire examining the factors affecting the empowerment of human capital of the cooperative employees is acceptable. Since the research variables have non-normal distributions, a non-parametric test (one-sample sign test) was used to determine the possibility of establishing the hypothesis. The results of the sign test indicate the significance level of all seven factors in the empowerment of cooperative employees. According to the results, it was determined that the priority and ranking of the variables are, in order, communication factors between employees and managers; employee motivational factors; trust factors between employees and managers; factors related to information sharing; employee skill and knowledge factors; self-directed teams and groups factors; boundary and autonomy factors that significantly affect the empowerment of cooperative employees.