Fortune 1000 rank: 687
Best Companies rank: 99
No. of U.S. employees: 15,794
Most common salaried job (Avg. Pay):
Headquarters Management & Professional Support ($71,548)
What makes it so great? Brokerage house tries to be more down-to-earth than its Wall Street brethren: An employee chorus serenades colleagues at St. Louis HQ, and corporate tickets to Cardinals games are distributed among employees.