The award winners for Best Company Compensation are ranked and segmented into two lists: Large companies (more than 500 employees) and Small/Mid-Size companies (500 or fewer employees). The companies on the list were derived from a combination of the highest average salaries and the highest sentiment ratings by employees about their pay, provided to Comparably.com. Methodology below.
Be sure to check out our other recent awards: Best Companies for Perks & Benefits 2018, Happiest Employees 2018 and Best Companies for Work-Life Balance 2018.
Best Company Compensation (Large Companies, Ranked)
1. Google (Mountain View, CA)
2. Facebook (Menlo Park, CA)
3. Salesforce (San Francisco, CA)
4. Microsoft (Redmond, WA)
5. Netflix (Los Gatos, CA)
6. Apple (Cupertino, CA)
7. Accenture (New York, NY)
8. Cisco (San Jose, CA)
9. Intuit (Mountain View, CA)
10. Chevron Corporation (San Ramon, CA)
11. Bloomberg (New York, NY)
12. eBay (San Jose, CA)
13. T-Mobile (Bellevue, WA)
14. Hubspot (Cambridge, MA)
15. LogMeIn (Boston, MA)
16. Zillow (Seattle, WA)
17. Adobe (San Jose, CA)
18. LinkedIn (Sunnyvale, CA)
19. Zynga (San Francisco, CA)
20. Goldman Sachs (New York, NY)
21. NVIDIA (Santa Clara, CA)
22. Nike (Portland, OR)
23. Red Bull (Santa Monica, CA)
24. Wells Fargo (San Francisco, CA)
25. VMware (Palo Alto, CA)
26. Axon (Scottsdale, AZ)
27. Visa (Foster City, CA)
28. Indeed.com (Austin, TX)
29. Amazon (Seattle, WA)
30. Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, GA)
31. Nevro (Redwood City, CA)
32. The Coca-Cola Company (Atlanta, GA)
33. PayPal (San Jose, CA)
34. American Express (New York, NY)
35. Edifecs (Bellevue, WA)
36. ADP (Roseland, NJ)
37. Workfront (Lehi, UT)
38. UiPath (New York, NY)
39. Aflac (Columbus, GA)
40. Golden Hippo Media (Woodland Hills, CA)
41. Dynatrace (Waltham, MA)
42. Trimble (Sunnyvale, CA)
43. Pegasystems (Cambridge, MA)
44. Blizzard Entertainment (Irvine, CA)
45. The Home Depot (Atlanta, GA)
46. Comcast (Philadelphia, PA)
47. Starbucks (Seattle, WA)
48. Verizon (Basking Ridge, NJ)
49. Procter & Gamble (Cincinnati, OH)
50. Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, CA)
Best Company Compensation (Small/Mid-Size Companies, Ranked)
1. TripActions (Palo Alto, CA)
2. Periscope Data (San Francisco, CA)
3. SendGrid (Denver, CO)
4. Shipt (Birmingham, AL)
5. Boostability (Lehi, UT)
6. Branch Metrics (Palo Alto, CA)
7. Swift Navigation (San Francisco, CA)
8. Sitetracker (Palo Alto, CA)
9. Drift (Boston, MA)
10. Help Scout (Boston, MA)
11. Brighterion (San Francisco, CA)
12. Pendo (Raleigh, NC)
13. Sauce Labs (San Francisco, CA)
14. Pipedrive (New York, NY)
15. Cybereason (Boston, MA)
16. Pramata (Brisbane, CA)
17. Disruptive Advertising (Lindon, UT)
18. PeerStreet (Manhattan Beach, CA)
19. Juniper Systems (Logan, UT)
20. Peerfit (Tampa, FL)
21. The ExecRanks (Novato, CA)
22. Envoy (San Francisco, CA)
23. Billtrust (Fountain Valley, CA)
24. Wibbitz (New York, NY)
25. AgileCraft (Austin, TX)
Methodology
Comparably Awards are derived from sentiment ratings provided by employees who anonymously rated their employers on Comparably.com between September 12, 2017 and September 12, 2018. There were no fees or costs associated with participating, nor was nomination required. During the year-long eligibility period, Large companies (organizations with more than 500 employees) must have had a minimum of 50 employee participants and Small/Mid-Size companies (businesses with fewer than 500 employees) must have had a minimum of 15 employee participants to qualify. Winners were determined based on the average median salaries as well as a set of questions employees were asked regarding their compensation at their place of employment. The answer to each question was given a numerical score and then compared to companies of similar size across the U.S. Additional weight was given to scores at companies with more participation from their employee base. The final data set was compiled from over 5 million ratings across 45,000 U.S. companies on Comparably.com.
About Comparably
Comparably is one of the fastest growing compensation, culture, and career monitoring sites in the U.S. With the most comprehensive and uniquely structured data — segmented by gender, ethnicity, age, location, tenure, company size, equity, title/department, and education — the platform gives employees a more accurate picture of their worth and allows them to anonymously rate their workplace experiences and match with their dream jobs. Since its launch in 2016, Comparably has accumulated more than 5 million ratings from employees across 45,000 U.S. businesses and 10,000 companies who use its employer branding and jobs tools. For more information on Comparably, go to www.comparably.com. For highly-cited workplace culture and compensation studies, including Comparably’s annual Best Places to Work and Best CEOs lists, log onto www.comparably.com/blog.
