Starbucks Coffee Ranks No. 16 on FORTUNE's 2007 Best Companies to Work For

(New York) -- Starbucks Coffee (SBUX (Charts)) ranks no. 16 on FORTUNE's 2007 Best Companies to Work For list this year. The Seattle-based company was ranked 29 on the 2006 list.

Starbucks Coffee, with 109,873 U.S. employees, added 2,314 jobs last year. A Store Manager, its most common salaried job, is paid an average of $43,598 annually.

The java king steamed ahead in 2006, adding 28,000 jobs globally. Though 85% of "partners" (Starbucks-speak for employees) are part-timers, they're still eligible for full benefits if they work 240 hours a quarter.

Ten years ago, when Fortune began compiling this list, the idea that your employer would deliver your groceries (a new perk at Microsoft) or allow you to do your laundry at work (Google) might have seemed crazy. (Of course, the idea that you'd be paying out-of-pocket for health care would have sounded just as nuts.)

Indeed, much has changed in the American workplace over the past decade. Back then 18 companies on Fortune's list offered telecommuting; today 82 do. Only 28 companies on the list offered domestic-partner benefits; now that number is 70.

Competition to get on the list has intensified too: This year 446 public and private companies vied for a slot, up from 161 in 1998. And 100,000 workers evaluated their employers, making this by far the largest simultaneous employee survey in corporate America.

Other companies of interest on this list include:

Google (Best Companies rank: 1) GOOG (Charts)

Whole Foods Market (Best Companies rank: 5) WFMI (Charts)

Yahoo (Best Companies rank: 44) YHOO (Charts)

Four Seasons Hotels (Best Companies rank: 53) FS (Charts)

Marriott International (Best Companies rank: 89) MAR (Charts)