It doesn’t matter how cool a company’s mission is or how beloved its products are: if employees feel underpaid or unappreciated, they aren’t going to want to stick around.
Compensation is a critical piece of talent acquisition and retention. In recognition of that, Comparably put together a list of companies that are highest ranked by employees in terms of how well they pay.
This list is part of Comparably’s Best Places to Work 2017 series.
Here are the results:
Best Compensation (Large Companies)
(listed alphabetically)
- 3M, Saint Paul, MN
- Adobe, San Jose, CA
- Amazon, Seattle, Washington
- Apple, Cupertino, CA
- Atlassian, San Francisco, CA
- Bloomberg, New York, NY
- Capital One, McLean, VA
- Chegg, Santa Clara, CA
- Cisco, San Jose, CA
- Cornerstone OnDemand, Santa Monica, CA
- Costco, Issaquah, WA
- eBay, San Jose, CA
- EMC, Hopkinton, MA
- Expedia, Bellevue, WA
- Facebook, Menlo Park, CA
- Geico, Chevy Chase, MD
- General Motors, Detroit, MI
- Godaddy, Scottsdale, AZ
- Google, Mountain View, CA
- HCA Holdings, Nashville, TN
- HubSpot, Cambridge, MA
- Indeed, Austin, TX
- Insight Global, Atlanta, GA
- Intel Corp, Santa Clara, CA
- Intuit, Mountain View, CA
- Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA
- Liberty Mutual Insurance, Boston, MA
- LinkedIn, Mountain View, CA
- Microsoft, Redmond, WA
- Nestle USA, Arlington, VA
- Netflix, Los Gatos, CA
- NVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA
- PayPal, San Jose, CA
- Pegasystems, Cambridge, MA
- Petco, San Diego, CA
- Pinterest, San Francisco, CA
- Pluralsight, Farmington, Utah
- Publix Super Markets, Lakeland, FL
- Salesforce, San Francisco, CA
- SAP, Newton Square, PA
- Slack, San Francisco, CA
- Surveymonkey, San Mateo, CA
- Symantec, Mountain View, CA
- T-Mobile, Bellevue, WA
- TripAdvisor, Needham, MA
- Tyson Foods, Springdale, AR
- USAA, San Antonio, TX
- VMware, Palo Alto, CA
- Workfront, Lehi, UT
- ZipRecruiter, Santa Monica, CA
Methodology
Comparably’s “Best Of” lists are derived from sentiment ratings provided by employees who anonymously rated their employers on Comparably.com during the 2017 eligibility period (1/1/17– 11/17/17). There were no fees or costs associated with participating, nor was nomination required. Large companies are considered organizations with more than 500 employees whereas small/mid-size are businesses with less than 500 employees. Companies are listed in alphabetical order.
