100 Best Companies to Work For

Best benefits: Sabbaticals

Nearly a quarter of the companies on this year's list offer fully paid sabbaticals.

Company	Best Companies rank
Boston Consulting Group	2
Recreational Equipment (REI)	8
DPR Construction	13
DreamWorks Animation	14
Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants	16
The Container Store	22
Alston & Bird	24
Plante Moran	37
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital	39
Adobe	41
Intel	46
PricewaterhouseCoopers	48
Autodesk	52
Baker Donelson	54
Men's Wearhouse	55
Perkins Coie	58
American Express	60
General Mills	63
QuikTrip	66
Deloitte	67
Genentech	68
Microsoft	76
Morningstar	89

From the Feb. 6, 2012 issue

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Top 3

Company	Avg. annual pay
Southern Ohio Medical Center	$490,647
Bingham McCutchen	$228,851
Alston & Bird	$201,233

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Company	Job growth %
Zappos.com	70%
Salesforce.com	39%
Rackspace Hosting	37%

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State	No. of top employers
California	18
Texas	11
New York	10

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How we pick the 100 Best

To pick the 100 Best Companies to Work For, Fortune partners with the Great Place to Work Institute to conduct the most extensive employee survey in corporate America; 280 firms participated in this year's survey. More

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