| Rank |
Company |
Job growth |
U.S. employees |
| 1 | Google | 60% | 8,134 |
| 2 | Quicken Loans | 68% | 4,920 |
| 3 | Wegmans Food Markets | 4% | 35,302 |
| 4 | Edward Jones | 5% | 31,451 |
| 5 | Genentech | 9% | 10,842 |
| 6 | Cisco Systems | 17% | 32,160 |
| 7 | Starbucks | 15% | 134,013 |
| 8 | Qualcomm | 15% | 10,095 |
| 9 | Goldman Sachs | 10% | 13,764 |
| 10 | Methodist Hospital System | 11% | 10,481 |
| 11 | Boston Consulting Group | 8% | 1,543 |
| 12 | Nugget Markets | 20% | 1,322 |
| 13 | Umpqua Bank | 25% | 1,788 |
| 14 | Network Appliance | 25% | 4,481 |
| 15 | W. L. Gore & Associates | 6% | 5,211 |
| 16 | Whole Foods Market | 11% | 41,385 |
| 17 | David Weekley Homes | -11% | 1,450 |
| 18 | OhioHealth | 4% | 11,254 |
| 19 | Arnold & Porter | -3% | 1,272 |
| 20 | Container Store | 5% | 3,019 |
| 21 | Principal Financial Group | 3% | 13,438 |
| 22 | American Century Investments | -5% | 1,694 |
| 23 | JM Family Enterprises | 4% | 4,609 |
| 24 | American Fidelity Assurance | 1% | 1,376 |
| 25 | Shared Technologies | 28% | 1,401 |
| 26 | Stew Leonard's | 13% | 2,282 |
| 27 | S.C. Johnson & Son | 0% | 3,419 |
| 28 | QuikTrip | -5% | 9,630 |
| 29 | SAS Institute | -1% | 5,153 |
| 30 | Aflac | 5% | 4,475 |
| 31 | Alston & Bird | 0% | 1,762 |
| 32 | Rackspace Managed Hosting | 38% | 1,443 |
| 33 | Station Casinos | 6% | 14,920 |
| 34 | Recreational Equipment (REI) | 19% | 9,137 |
| 35 | TDIndustries | 19% | 1,595 |
| 36 | Nordstrom | 0% | 49,769 |
| 37 | Johnson Financial Group | 12% | 1,259 |
| 38 | Kimley-Horn & Associates | 9% | 2,368 |
| 39 | Robert W. Baird | 0% | 2,093 |
| 40 | Adobe Systems | 8% | 3,900 |
| 41 | Bingham McCutchen | 0% | 1,652 |
| 42 | MITRE | 5% | 6,037 |
| 43 | Intuit | 11% | 7,635 |
| 44 | Plante & Moran | 0% | 1,522 |
| 45 | Children's Healthcare of Atlanta | 3% | 5,427 |
| 46 | CarMax | 13% | 14,223 |
| 47 | J. M. Smucker | 7% | 3,042 |
| 48 | Devon Energy | 15% | 3,368 |
| 49 | Griffin Hospital | 4% | 1,133 |
| 50 | Camden Property Trust | -5% | 1,894 |
| 51 | Paychex | 7% | 11,622 |
| 52 | FactSet Research Systems | 21% | 1,102 |
| 53 | Vision Service Plan | 6% | 2,052 |
| 54 | CH2M HILL | -2% | 15,674 |
| 55 | Perkins Coie | 6% | 1,629 |
| 56 | Scripps Health | 6% | 11,223 |
| 57 | Ernst & Young | 4% | 25,947 |
| 58 | Scottrade | 13% | 1,584 |
| 59 | Mayo Clinic | 4% | 41,004 |
| 60 | Alcon Laboratories | 6% | 6,848 |
| 61 | Chesapeake Energy | 15% | 5,752 |
| 62 | American Express | 4% | 30,162 |
| 63 | King's Daughters Medical Center | 13% | 2,934 |
| 64 | EOG Resources | 17% | 1,388 |
| 65 | Russell Investments | 5% | 1,267 |
| 66 | Nixon Peabody | 9% | 1,728 |
| 67 | Valero Energy | -8% | 17,488 |
| 68 | eBay | 13% | 7,769 |
| 69 | General Mills | -2% | 17,090 |
| 70 | Mattel | 2% | 5,000 |
| 71 | KPMG | 8% | 22,857 |
| 72 | Marriott International | -2% | 123,203 |
| 73 | David Evans & Associates | 9% | 1,085 |
| 74 | Granite Construction | 6% | 4,650 |
| 75 | Southern Ohio Medical Center | 7% | 2,032 |
| 76 | Arkansas Children's Hospital | 8% | 3,283 |
| 77 | PCL Construction Enterprises | 18% | 3,558 |
| 78 | Navy Federal Credit Union | 15% | 6,069 |
| 79 | National Instruments | 3% | 2,353 |
| 80 | Healthways | 42% | 3,730 |
| 81 | Booz Allen Hamilton | 7% | 17,650 |
| 82 | Nike | 4% | 14,570 |
| 83 | AstraZeneca | 5% | 12,810 |
| 84 | Stanley | 7% | 2,756 |
| 85 | Lehigh Valley Hospital & Health Network | 9% | 8,420 |
| 86 | Microsoft | 8% | 47,645 |
| 87 | Yahoo | 16% | 7,915 |
| 88 | Four Seasons Hotels | 21% | 12,851 |
| 89 | Bright Horizons Family Solutions | 7% | 14,660 |
| 90 | PricewaterhouseCoopers | 5% | 29,818 |
| 91 | Publix Super Markets | 5% | 142,084 |
| 92 | Milliken | -8% | 8,800 |
| 93 | Erickson Retirement Communities | 14% | 10,248 |
| 94 | Baptist Health South Fla. | 4% | 9,838 |
| 95 | Deloitte & Touche USA | 7% | 36,517 |
| 96 | Herman Miller | 14% | 6,063 |
| 97 | FedEx | 8% | 228,211 |
| 98 | Sherwin-Williams | 1% | 29,554 |
| 99 | SRA International | 6% | 5,200 |
| 100 | Texas Instruments | -1% | 15,051 |
From the February 4, 2008 issue
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. Revenues are for 2006 or latest fiscal year. All data based on U.S. employees.
* Average annual pay: yearly pay rate plus additional cash compensation for the largest classification of full-time salaried and hourly employees.
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