100 Best Companies to Work For
Size
Large companies
1 Wegmans Food Markets 2 31,890
2 Valero Energy 3 16,582
3 Whole Foods Market 15 33,248
4 Edward Jones 16 29,197
5 Cisco Systems 25 26,644
6 Goldman Sachs 26 11,836
7 Four Seasons 28 10,625
8 Starbucks 29 91,056
9 American Express 37 42,453
10 Amgen 39 11,374
11 Microsoft 42 37,746
12 Nordstrom 46 45,112
13 Eli Lilly 52 21,898
14 Station Casinos 55 10,967
15 Publix Super Markets 56 129,412
16 Synovus 57 11,860
17 Baptist Health South Florida 59 10,706
18 Vanguard Group 60 11,070
19 Sherwin-Williams 61 27,938
20 FedEx 64 212,241
21 Ernst & Young 67 23,657
22 A.G. Edwards 70 15,708
23 PricewaterhouseCoopers 71 26,392
24 Booz Allen Hamilton 72 15,582
25 Quad/Graphics 75 10,399
26 CH2M Hill 80 17,770
27 Texas Instruments 83 16,102
28 First Horizon National 85 13,228
29 Principal Financial Group 86 12,723
30 Washington Mutual 87 54,396
31 Mayo Clinic 89 38,085
32 Men's Wearhouse 92 10,757
33 CarMax 93 11,400
34 Bright Horizons 94 13,551
35 Intel 97 48,655
36 General Mills 98 17,993
37 Marriott International 99 126,704
38 Nike 100 12,502
Midsized companies
1 Genentech 1 8,121
2 W.L. Gore & Associates 5 4,537
3 Container Store 6 2,857
4 J.M. Smucker 8 2,930
5 Recreational Equipment (REI) 9 7,443
6 S.C. Johnson 10 3,404
7 Quicken Loans 13 2,951
8 Baptist Health Care 18 4,003
9 QuikTrip 21 7,819
10 Qualcomm 23 7,562
11 Network Appliance 27 2,712
12 SAS Institute 30 5,118
13 Alcon Laboratories 32 6,227
14 CDW 34 3,948
15 Milliken 38 9,300
16 JM Family Enterprises 40 4,114
17 Intuit 43 6,516
18 Pella 44 8,758
19 SRA International 45 3,986
20 AFLAC 47 4,034
21 Northwest Community Hospital 50 3,089
22 Genzyme 51 5,399
23 Hot Topic 53 8,314
24 Memorial Health 62 4,301
25 PCL Construction 65 2,543
26 MITRE 66 5,575
27 Bronson Healthcare Group 68 3,396
28 Yahoo 73 5,444
29 Children's Heathcare of Atlanta 76 4,910
30 Methodist Hospital System 78 8,714
31 East Penn Manufacturing 79 4,082
32 Worthington Industries 84 6,233
33 Granite Construction 91 4,300
34 Wm. Wrigley Jr. 95 3,372
35 IKEA (U.S.) 96 9,499
Small companies
1 Griffin Hospital 4 1,049
2 Vision Service Plan 7 1,915
3 Boston Consulting Group 11 1,261
4 Plante & Moran 12 1,356
5 HomeBanc Mortgage 14 1,342
6 Republic Bancorp 17 1,190
7 Alston & Bird 19 1,509
8 Kimley-Horn & Associates 20 1,777
9 American Century Investments 22 1,778
10 David Weekley Homes 24 1,361
11 Robert W. Baird 31 2,125
12 Nugget Markets 33 1,091
13 American Fidelity Assurance 35 1,385
14 TDIndustries 36 1,297
15 Timberland 41 1,978
16 Perkins Coie 48 1,553
17 Nixon Peabody 49 1,563
18 Arnold & Porter 54 1,383
19 Stew Leonard's 58 1,819
20 Russell Investment Group 63 1,092
21 Valassis 69 1,803
22 Standard Pacific 74 2,317
23 National Instruments 77 2,148
24 Autodesk 81 2,098
25 Bingham McCutchen 82 1,542
26 Morrison & Foerster 88 2,145
27 John Wiley & Sons 90 2,090
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.
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Highest pay
Salaried employees at these Best Companies enjoy the highest average compensation.
Russell Investment Group $574,373
Morrison & Foerster $182,905
Bingham McCutchen $173,391
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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