100 Best Companies to Work for in US
The list of best companies to work for in 2011 is now out. Fortune has compiled the best scoring companies based on ratings from the most credible source possible; the employees. Many of the companies on the list are familiar names, appearing year after year. But there are a few new names this year also. Some of the categories considered in ranking them are salary, perks and quality of life as it relates to job satisfaction, happiness with management and good working relationships with coworkers.
| Rank | Company | Growth | Employees |
| 1 | SAS | 3% | 5,629 |
| 2 | Boston Consulting Group | 2% | 1,713 |
| 3 | Wegmans Food Markets | 6% | 39,255 |
| 4 | N.A. | N.A. | |
| 5 | NetApp | 9% | 5,455 |
| 6 | Zappos.com | 37% | 1,843 |
| 7 | Camden Property Trust | 0% | 1,719 |
| 8 | Nugget Market | -2% | 1,240 |
| 9 | Recreational Equipment (REI) | -1% | 9,380 |
| 10 | DreamWorks Animation SKG | 10% | 1,994 |
| 11 | Edward Jones | 2% | 35,987 |
| 12 | Scottrade | 19% | 2,884 |
| 13 | Alston & Bird | -12% | 1,611 |
| 14 | Robert W. Baird | 5% | 2,406 |
| 15 | Mercedes-Benz USA | -3% | 1,657 |
| 16 | JM Family Enterprises | -2% | 3,688 |
| 17 | USAA | -1% | 21,889 |
| 18 | Stew Leonard’s | -7% | 1,991 |
| 19 | The Methodist Hospital System | 2% | 11,298 |
| 20 | Cisco | 3% | 36,612 |
| 21 | Container Store | -3% | 3,338 |
| 22 | DPR Construction | -7% | 1,073 |
| 23 | Goldman Sachs | 7% | 13,154 |
| 24 | Whole Foods Market | 3% | 52,915 |
| 25 | Umpqua Bank | 18% | 2,154 |
| 26 | Plante & Moran | -4% | 1,478 |
| 27 | CHG Healthcare Services | -5% | 1,124 |
| 28 | Bingham McCutchen | 7% | 1,607 |
| 29 | Quicken Loans | 4% | 3,179 |
| 30 | NuStar Energy | 4% | 1,419 |
| 31 | W. L. Gore & Associates | 1% | 5,770 |
| 32 | Chesapeake Energy | 10% | 8,529 |
| 33 | Qualcomm | 2% | 12,520 |
| 34 | QuikTrip | 5% | 10,936 |
| 35 | Genentech | 3% | 11,464 |
| 36 | Southern Ohio Medical Center | 18% | 2,276 |
| 37 | Scripps Health | 5% | 11,847 |
| 38 | PCL Construction | -4% | 1,323 |
| 39 | American Fidelity Assurance | -1% | 1,495 |
| 40 | Balfour Beatty Construction | 37% | 2,079 |
| 41 | Devon Energy | -10% | 3,508 |
| 42 | Baptist Health South Florida | 5% | 12,249 |
| 43 | Shared Technologies | -3% | 1,192 |
| 44 | Intuit | -3% | 6,475 |
| 45 | TDIndustries | -11% | 1,429 |
| 46 | Johnson Financial Group | -4% | 1,259 |
| 47 | Novo Nordisk | -1% | 3,340 |
| 48 | Build-A-Bear Workshop | -7% | 4,250 |
| 49 | American Express | -3% | 26,329 |
| 50 | Baker Donelson | 1% | 1,127 |
| 51 | Intel | -1% | 42,694 |
| 52 | Salesforce.com | 15% | 2,725 |
| 53 | Four Seasons Hotels | N.A. | 11,729 |
| 54 | Atlantic Health | 5% | 7,418 |
| 55 | Perkins Coie | 2% | 1,726 |
| 56 | Millennium: The Takeda Oncology | 11% | 1,269 |
| 57 | Aflac | 0% | 4,400 |
| 58 | General Mills | 1% | 16,803 |
| 59 | Hasbro | -4% | 3,055 |
| 60 | Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta | -1% | 6,521 |
| 61 | Mayo Clinic | -1% | 41,068 |
| 62 | OhioHealth | 4% | 12,529 |
| 63 | Deloitte | -1% | 38,493 |
| 64 | FactSet Research Systems | 3% | 1,355 |
| 65 | Adobe Systems | 18% | 4,788 |
| 66 | EOG Resources | 5% | 1,811 |
| 67 | Publix Super Markets | -1% | 141,217 |
| 68 | Stryker | -2% | 8,389 |
| 69 | Mattel | -2% | 5,161 |
| 70 | S.C. Johnson & Son | -1% | 3,310 |
| 71 | Marriott International | -4% | 106,280 |
| 72 | Microsoft | -4% | 53,410 |
| 73 | PricewaterhouseCoopers | -4% | 28,168 |
| 74 | Nordstrom | 19% | 49,447 |
| 75 | Arkansas Children’s Hospital | 2% | 3,776 |
| 76 | Gilbane | -9% | 1,761 |
| 77 | Ernst & Young | -7% | 23,102 |
| 78 | SRC/SRCTec | 9% | 1,054 |
| 79 | National Instruments | -1% | 2,545 |
| 80 | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital | -1% | 3,557 |
| 81 | CarMax | 3% | 13,436 |
| 82 | Teach For America | 10% | 1,236 |
| 83 | Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants | 6% | 6,735 |
| 84 | Bright Horizons Family Solutions | -4% | 13,737 |
| 85 | Booz Allen Hamilton | 9% | 23,294 |
| 86 | KPMG | -5% | 19,892 |
| 87 | Men’s Wearhouse | -1% | 14,548 |
| 88 | Meridian Health | -8% | 8,004 |
| 89 | Brocade Communications Systems | 8% | 3,112 |
| 90 | CH2M Hill | -12% | 13,486 |
| 91 | The Everett Clinic | 4% | 1,633 |
| 92 | Rackspace Hosting | 14% | 2,405 |
| 93 | J. M. Smucker | -4% | 4,157 |
| 94 | Aéropostale | 7% | 16,589 |
| 95 | Morningstar | 14% | 1,224 |
| 96 | MITRE | 2% | 6,686 |
| 97 | Darden Restaurants | 21% | 167,537 |
| 98 | Starbucks | -5% | 103,425 |
| 99 | Accenture | 4% | 31,000 |
| 100 | W. W. Grainger | -3% | 13,699 |
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Ford To Issue Profit Sharing Bonuses
Ford has just finished one of their most profitable years ever and wants to reward employees for this incredible accomplishment. UAW workers can expect to receive profit sharing bonuses this year that will likely be the largest in the last decade. White collar workers on the other hand are not going to receive salary increases this year because their salaries are already on par with counterparts in the industry.
Profit sharing bonuses are typically paid out in March. The exact amount is still unknown but will be based on 2010 results.
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Andrew Biggs on States Underfunded Pension Funds
Andrew Biggs (a former Social Security analyst and Assistant Director of the Cato Institute’s Project on Social Security Choice) offers his perspective on the serious problem of States with underfunded pension funds. The problem is one of solvency in which liabilities exceed the states assets. He has proposed that states change the way they report their funds accounting by using market valuation rules to give a truer picture of the unfunded liability. Some of these pensions are being funded now in riskier equities versus more stable bond offerings. Since these pensions are guaranteed, many taxpayers do not realize that they will be on the hook to make up for any shortfall. (listen to podcast below for full story)
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