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

MITRE

42 of 50

MITRE

Best Companies rank: 42
2006 Revenues (millions): $1,026
Headquarters: McLean, VA

What makes it so great? Nonprofit researcher encourages higher learning with tuition reimbursement up to $20,000 and bonuses for advanced degrees (which 65% hold).

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Last updated January 22 2008: 2:12 PM ET

Methodist Hospital

Boston Consulting

Network Appliance

Arnold & Porter

Container Store

Principal Financial

American Century

Shared Technologies

Station Casinos

Johnson Financial

Robert W. Baird

Bingham McCutchen

Children's Healthcare

Griffin Hospital

Camden Property Trust

*Most common salaried job

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