100 Best Companies to Work For 2008

Top 50 employers

We surveyed nearly 100,000 employees from 406 different companies and asked them to evaluate their employers. These firms ranked the highest.

By Robert Levering and Milton Moskowitz

Principal Financial Group

21 of 50

Principal Financial Group

Best Companies rank: 21
2006 Revenues (millions): $9,826
Headquarters: Des Moines, IA
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What makes it so great? A new child-care center is in the works, you can buy extra time off, and the majority get retirement benefits of 100% of income.

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Last updated January 22 2008: 2:12 PM ET

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