List of 100 best companies to work for includes many in California.

CNN Money has released their list of the 100 best companies to work for, with a good dose of California firms ranking highly.  This list, based on 2012 data and standards, is based on a partnership between Fortune Magazine and the Great Place to Work Institute, who conducts a thorough survey of corporate America every year.  The survey this year included 280 firms, with 246,000 employees answering questions about management, job satisfaction, and camaraderie.  The survey also weighs a Culture Audit enacted by the Institute, which surveys questions about pay, benefit programs, hiring practices, methods of internal communications, training, and diversity efforts.  

Companies need to be in business at least 5 years and have at least 1,000 employees to be eligible, and any negative news is or media reports are considered against their score.

This segment of the list shows the best companies to work for in California, their corresponding rank on the Fortune 500 Index, and their revenue.

So from a Placer County/greater Sacramento area perspective, the questions arise:  Why aren’t we better represented on this list?  What can we do to attract the nation’s best firms?  And how can we help the companies in our own back yard grow and flourish so that they’ll make this list, too? 

We’d love to hear from you if you had comments or suggestions on the topic!

  

State Rank ▾	Company	Fortune 500 rank	City	Revenues ($ millions)
1	Chevron	3	San Ramon	245,621
2	Hewlett-Packard	10	Palo Alto	127,245
3	McKesson	14	San Francisco	112,084
4	Apple	17	Cupertino	108,249.0
5	Wells Fargo	26	San Francisco	87,597.0
6	Intel	51	Santa Clara	53,999.0
7	Safeway	63	Pleasanton	43,630.2
8	Cisco Systems	64	San Jose	43,218.0
9	Walt Disney	66	Burbank	40,893.0
10	Google	73	Mountain View	37,905.0
11	Ingram Micro	81	Santa Ana	36,328.7
12	Oracle	82	Redwood City	35,622.0
13	DirecTV	105	El Segundo	27,226.0
14	Occidental Petroleum	122	Los Angeles	24,216.0
15	Amgen	168	Thousand Oaks	15,582.0
16	Qualcomm	178	San Diego	14,962.0
17	PG&E Corp.	179	San Francisco	14,956.0
18	Gap	185	San Francisco	14,549.0
19	Edison International	211	Rosemead	12,760.0
20	Health Net	221	Woodland Hills	11,901.0
21	eBay	228	San Jose	11,651.7
22	Applied Materials	251	Santa Clara	10,517.0
23	Synnex	253	Fremont	10,409.8
24	Jacobs Engineering Group	254	Pasadena	10,381.7
25	Sempra Energy	266	San Diego	10,036.0
26	URS	275	San Francisco	9,545.0
27	Western Digital	276	Irvine	9,526.0
28	Visa	281	San Francisco	9,188.0
29	Ross Stores	299	Pleasanton	8,608.3
30	Gilead Sciences	306	Foster City	8,385.4
31	Reliance Steel & Aluminum	315	Los Angeles	8,134.7
32	AECOM Technology	322	Los Angeles	8,037.4
33	Broadcom	344	Irvine	7,389.0
34	Dole Food	349	Westlake Village	7,223.8
35	Spectrum Group International	352	Irvine	7,203.4
36	Franklin Resources	353	San Mateo	7,140.0
37	Avery Dennison	367	Pasadena	6,786.7
38	Agilent Technologies	375	Santa Clara	6,615.0
39	Sanmina-SCI	376	San Jose	6,602.4
40	Advanced Micro Devices	378	Sunnyvale	6,568.0
41	Mattel	388	El Segundo	6,266.0
42	Symantec	391	Mountain View	6,190.0
43	Core-Mark Holding	393	South San Francisco	6,163.4
44	CBRE Group	416	Los Angeles	5,912.1
45	Pacific Life	420	Newport Beach	5,879.0
46	SanDisk	430	Milpitas	5,662.1
47	Allergan	448	Irvine	5,419.1
48	Live Nation Entertainment	450	Beverly Hills	5,384.0
49	Clorox	456	Oakland	5,326.0
50	NetApp	474	Sunnyvale	5,122.6
51	Yahoo	483	Sunnyvale	4,984.2
52	Charles Schwab	485	San Francisco	4,884.0
53	Molina Healthcare	500	Long Beach	4,769.9