Fortune 100 Best Companies To Work For: SAS Tops The List

If you are looking for a good company to work for, look no more. Fortune Magazine has released its annual list of the best companies to work for. This year's list is topped by software company SAS, a newbie in the top 10 list that rose from being ranked #20 last year. So, what made SAS so appealing in 2010? Fortune 100 says it is their incredible employee benefits, including high-quality child care and health coverage. SAS is also very profitable with high job security and low turnover rate. In #2 position for second consecutive year is investment adviser Edward Jones that stayed afloat throughout the recession without firing a single employee. Wegmans Food Markets did not only avoid layoffs in recession, it never laid off an employee in 94 years of its existence, which earned it #3 spot this year.

The variety of companies in this year's list was quite impressive. We were expecting to see a list dominated by tech companies. Surprisingly, two food retailers made in onto the list, one of them surpassing tech giant Google. Google has actually been loosing its reigns as employer #1: it was the top employer in 2007 and 2008, but slipped to #4 position in 2009. Also in the top 10 mix for 2010 were an animation studio, a management consulting company and a real estate investment trust of all things. Was not the real estate sector supposed to fire its employees first?

Here is a list of the top 10 Fortune 100 companies to work for:

1. SAS
2. Edward Jones
3. Wegmans
4. Google
5. Nugget Market
6. DreamWorks Animation
7. NetApp 
8. Boston Consulting Group 
9. Qualcomm 
10. Camden Property Trust
    

Here is a full list of the top one hundred best companies to work for.