U.S. Top 25 Best Companies To Work For 2014 Rankings

In order to determine the U.S. best companies to work for, 24/7 Wall St. independently reviewed employee ratings and testimonials on Glassdoor.com. Among the more than 400 companies reviewed, 24/7 Wall St. identified the 75 businesses that received the highest overall scores.

To be considered, a company had to have at least 300 reviews. Employers were also excluded if they were a government agency or bureau, a non-profit, or a subsidiary of a larger company. An exception was made for CareerBuilder, which is majority-owned by publishing and broadcast firm Gannett, since it is a joint venture between several companies.

Employee totals and revenue figures represent the most recent fiscal year data available. Sources include: company documents, Securities and Exchange Commission filings, S&P Capital IQ, and Forbes’ America’s Largest Private Companies 2013. For companies that do not provide data, Forbes estimates revenue.

In the case of S&P Capital IQ, employee totals are calculated as the equivalent of full-time employees, treating a part-time worker as “half” of a full-time employee. Employee counts for companies with franchises only count workers employed by the company.

Dollar conversions from S&P Capital IQ were used for companies that publish financial statements in currencies other than the U.S. dollar. In the case of companies where data is not from S&P Capital IQ, we converted revenue into dollars based on the effective exchange rate at the end of the company’s fiscal year.

These are America’s Top 25 Best Companies to Work For

1. LinkedIn
> Glassdoor rating: 4.5
> CEO rating: 97% (Jeff Weiner)
> Employees: 5,045
> Revenue: $1.5 billion

According to the company: “Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful. With over 300 million members worldwide…LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network on the Internet.”

2. Facebook
> Glassdoor rating: 4.5
> CEO rating: 96% (Mark Zuckerberg)
> Employees: 6,337
> Revenue: $7.9 billion

According to the company: “Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what’s going on in the world, and to share and express what matters to them.”

3. Eastman Chemical
> Glassdoor rating: 4.5
> CEO rating: 91% (Mark J. Costa)
> Employees: 14,000
> Revenue: $9.4 billion

According to the company: “Eastman is a global specialty chemical company that produces a broad range of products found in items people use every day.”

4. Insight Global
> Glassdoor rating: 4.4
> CEO rating: 94% (Glenn Johnson)
> Employees: N/A
> Revenue: $918 million

According to the company: “Through a nationwide network of 37 regional offices, Insight Global provides clients exceptional IT technicians and consultants to meet the demanding technology challenges of today.”

5. Bain & Company
> Glassdoor rating: 4.4
> CEO rating: 99% (Bob Bechek)
> Employees: 5,500
> Revenue: $2.1 billion

According to the company: “Bain & Company is one of the world’s leading management consulting firms. We work with top executives to help them make better decisions, convert those decisions to actions, and deliver the sustainable success they desire.”

6. Riverbed Technology
> Glassdoor rating: 4.3
> CEO rating: 94% (Jerry M. Kennelly)
> Employees: 2,556
> Revenue: $1.0 billion

According to the company: “We enable organizations to embrace location-independent computing to better leverage global resources, radically reduce the cost of running their business, and maximize employee productivity.”

7. Google
> Glassdoor rating: 4.2
> CEO rating: 96% (Larry Page)
> Employees: 47,756
> Revenue: $59.8 billion

According to the company: “Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

8. Southwest Airlines
> Glassdoor rating: 4.2
> CEO rating: 91% (Gary C. Kelly)
> Employees: 44,831
> Revenue: $17.7 billion

According to the company: “The mission of Southwest Airlines is dedication to the highest quality of Customer Service delivered with a sense of warmth, friendliness, individual pride, and Company Spirit.”

9. McKinsey & Company
> Glassdoor rating: 4.1
> CEO rating: 96% (Dominic Barton)
> Employees: 17,000
> Revenue: $7.8 billion

According to the company: “We work with leading organizations across the private, public and social sectors. Our scale, scope, and knowledge allow us to address problems that no one else can.”

10. Boston Consulting Group
> Glassdoor rating: 4.1
> CEO rating: 95% (Rich Lesser)
> Employees: 9,700
> Revenue: $4.0 billion

According to the company: “With 50 years of experience in making change happen, we have developed unique, practical, and proven approaches to mobilizing and enabling organizations.”

11. Keller Williams
> Glassdoor rating: 4.1
> CEO rating: 92% (Mark Willis)
> Employees: 95,000 (associates)
> Revenue: $4.2 billion (commissions earned)

According to the company: “Created as a grand experiment, Keller Williams operates on the premise that if the company focuses all its resources on building its agents’ businesses, the agents in turn will build the company beyond all expectations.”

12. Edelman
> Glassdoor rating: 4.0
> CEO rating: 96% (Richard W. Edelman)
> Employees: Over 5,000
> Revenue: $741 million

According to the company: “Edelman is the world’s largest public relations firm, with more than 5,000 employees in 65 cities, as well as affiliates in more than 35 cities.”

13. Orbitz
> Glassdoor rating: 4.0
> CEO rating: 88% (Barney Harford)
> Employees: 1,300
> Revenue: $847 million

According to the company: “Orbitz Worldwide is a leading global online travel company that uses innovative technology to enable leisure and business travelers to search for, plan and book a broad range of travel products and services.”

14. Apple
> Glassdoor rating: 3.9
> CEO rating: 92% (Tim Cook)
> Employees: 80,300
> Revenue: $170.9 billion

According to the company: “Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world,… leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store…. has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.”

15. Procter & Gamble
> Glassdoor rating: 3.9
> CEO rating: 92% (A.G. Lafley)
> Employees: 121,000
> Revenue: $84.2 billion

According to the company, “As the world’s largest multinational consumer goods company, Procter & Gamble Co. is the 4th largest corporation in the world by market capitalization.”

16. Chevron
> Glassdoor rating: 3.9
> CEO rating: 95% (John S. Watson)
> Employees: 64,600
> Revenue: 211.7 billion

According to the company: “Chevron is one of the world’s leading integrated energy companies. We are involved in virtually every facet of the energy industry.”

17. General Mills
> Glassdoor rating: 3.9
> CEO rating: 94% (Ken Powell)
> Employees: 43,000
> Revenue: $17.9 billion

According to the company: “We are among the world’s largest food companies. Our brands are known for quality, starting with Gold Medal flour in 1880, which today remains the No. 1 selling flour in the United States.”

18. SAS Institute
> Glassdoor rating: 3.9
> CEO rating: 86% (Jim Goodnight)
> Employees: 13,777
> Revenue: $2.9 billion

According to the company: “SAS helps you make sense of the message. As the leader in business analytics software and services, SAS transforms your data into insights that give you a fresh perspective on your business.”

19. Intel
> Glassdoor rating: 3.8
> CEO rating: 83% (Brian M. Krzanich)
> Employees: 107,600
> Revenue: $52.7 billion

According to the company: “We are the world’s largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. We develop advanced integrated digital technology, primarily integrated circuits, for industries such as computing and communications.”

20. SAP
> Glassdoor rating: 3.8
> CEO rating: 93% (Bill McDermott)
> Employees: 66,572
> Revenue: $23.3 billion

According to the company: “SAP is the world leader in enterprise applications in terms of software and software-related service revenue. Based on market capitalization, we are the world’s third largest independent software manufacturer.”

21. Qualcomm
> Glassdoor rating: 3.8
> CEO rating: 94% (Steve Mollenkopf)
> Employees: 31,000
> Revenue: $24.9 billion

Qualcomm Incorporated is a world leader in 3G, 4G and next-generation wireless technologies… linking people everywhere more closely to information, entertainment and each other.

22. Costco Wholesale
> Glassdoor rating: 3.8
> CEO rating: 92% (Craig Jelinek)
> Employees: 143,500
> Revenue: $105.2 billion

According to the Company: “We are a membership warehouse club, dedicated to bringing our members the best possible prices on quality brand-name merchandise.”

23. Adobe
> Glassdoor rating: 3.8
> CEO rating: 71% (Shantanu Narayen)
> Employees: 11,847
> Revenue: $4.1 billion

According the company: “Adobe is the global leader in digital marketing and digital media solutions… We help our customers make, manage, measure, and monetize their content across every channel and screen.”

24. Nike
> Glassdoor rating: 3.8
> CEO rating: 92% (Mark G. Parker)
> Employees: 56,500
> Revenue: $27.8 billion

According to the company: “NIKE Inc., based near Beaverton, Oregon, is the world’s leading designer, marketer and distributor of authentic athletic footwear, apparel, equipment and accessories for a wide variety of sports and fitness activities.”

25. Citrix Systems
> Glassdoor rating: 3.8
> CEO rating: 92% (Mark B. Templeton)
> Employees: 9,166
> Revenue: $2.9 billion

According to the company: “Citrix is a leader in mobile workspaces, providing virtualization, mobility management, networking and cloud services to enable new ways to work better.”

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