100 Best Companies to Work For
FORTUNE's annual ranking of companies that rate high with employees
Best compensation
 
1 Russell Investment Group 63 $574,373
2 Morrison & Foerster 88 $182,905
3 Bingham McCutchen 82 $173,391
4 Republic Bancorp 17 $165,000
5 Nixon Peabody 49 $154,719
6 Perkins Coie 48 $139,112
7 Arnold & Porter 54 $133,593
8 Cisco Systems 25 $131,580
9 Alston & Bird 19 $131,239
10 Network Appliance 27 $128,317
11 Goldman Sachs 26 $127,000
12 Autodesk 81 $125,527
13 Robert W. Baird 31 $122,500
14 Boston Consulting Group 11 $120,776
15 JM Family Enterprises 40 $118,950
16 Yahoo 73 $117,245
17 Nugget Markets 33 $113,671
18 Texas Instruments 83 $111,752
19 MITRE 66 $109,849
20 Microsoft 42 $107,300
21 American Century Investments 22 $105,500
22 Alcon Laboratories 32 $105,083
23 S.C. Johnson 10 $102,161
24 Intel 97 $101,816
25 Publix Super Markets 56 $101,800
Notes:
N.A.: Not available. U.S. employees includes part-timers as of time of survey. Job growth, new jobs, and voluntary turnover are full-time only. Average annual pay: yearly pay rate plus additional cash compensation for the largest classification of salaried and hourly employees. Revenues are for 2004 or latest fiscal year. All data based on U.S. employees.
Best companies by state
These states are headquarters for the highest number of America's Top Employers.
California 16
Texas 10
Washington 7
Job growth
Quicken Loans added 1,093 jobs last year, making it the fastest-growing of our Best Companies.
Quicken Loans 60
CH2M Hill 48
Yahoo 29
Best benefits
These companies have the best benefit options.
Child care: SAS Institute
Telecommuting: Republic Bancorp
Work-life balance: American Century Investments
How we pick the 100 best
To choose the 100 Best Companies to Work for, we rely on two things: our evaluation of the policies and culture of each company and the opinions of the company's own employees. (more)

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Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. All times are ET. Disclaimer. Morningstar: © 2018 Morningstar, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc. 2018. All rights reserved. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices © S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC 2018 and/or its affiliates.