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All week Comparably, a compensation, culture and career monitoring website, has exclusively published "Best of" lists with USA TODAY, covering areas such as CEOs and diversity.
Thursday, its annual Best Companies by Region list highlights the best company cultures in specific metro areas.
These lists look across companies of all sizes and call out the companies most admired by the employees in areas across America, including Boston, Chicago, Salt Lake City and Washington, D.C.
Here are the best companies in 2017 by region, in alphabetical order, according to Comparably.com:
Boston
1. Boston Scientific Corporation, Marlborough, Mass.
2. Cybereason, Boston
3. Fasten, Boston
4. Help Scout, Boston
5. HubSpot, Cambridge, Mass.
6. Liberty Mutual Insurance, Boston
7. LogMeIn, Boston
8. Lullabot, Providence, R.I.
9. Pegasystems, Cambridge, Mass.
10. Rapid7, Boston
11. Schneider Electric, Andover, Mass.
12. TJ Maxx, Framingham, Mass.
13. TripAdvisor, Needham, Mass.
14. Unitrends, Burlington, Mass.
15. Wayfair, Boston
Chicago
1. 8th Light, Chicago
2. AbbVie, North Chicago, Ill.
3. Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., Itasca, Ill.
4. Braintree, Chicago
5. Forte Group, Chicago
6. Groupon, Chicago
7. Harp Interactive, Lombard, Ill.
8. Jammber, Chicago
9. JLL, Chicago
10. ParqEx, Chicago
11. Sprout Social, Chicago
12. The Walsh Group, Chicago
13. ThoughtWorks, Chicago
14. Uptake, Chicago
15. Zebra Technologies, Lincolnshire, Ill.
Los Angeles
1. Alorica, Irvine, Calif.
2. BlackLine, Woodland Hills, Calif.
3. Chrome River Technologies, Los Angeles
4. Cornerstone OnDemand, Santa Monica, Calif.
5. GlobeChat, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.
6. Golden Hippo Media, Woodland Hills, Calif.
7. GumGum, Santa Monica, Calif.
8. Leaf Group, Santa Monica, Calif.
9. ReachLocal*, Woodland Hills, Calif.
10. RingDNA, Sherman Oaks, Calif.
11. StackCommerce, Venice, Calif.
12. Thrive Market, Marina Del Rey, Calif.
13. Workpop, Santa Monica, Calif.
14. Ytel, Foothill Ranch, Calif.
15. ZipRecruiter, Santa Monica, Calif.
New York
1. American Prison Data Systems, New York
2. Billtrust, Hamilton, N.J.
3. Bloomberg, New York
4. DigitalOcean, New York
5. Foot Locker, New York
6. Fueled, New York
7. Gartner, Stamford, Conn.
8. H&M, New York
9. MAC Cosmetics, New York
10. Mastercard, Purchase, N.Y.
11. McKinsey & Company, New York
12. PepsiCo, Purchase, N.Y.
13. Pipedrive, New York
14. XPO Logistics, Greenwich, Conn.
15. Zeel, New York
Salt Lake City
1. Ancestry, Salt Lake City
2. BambooHR, Salt Lake City
3. Cotopaxi, Salt Lake City
4. Domo, Salt Lake City
5. Instructure, Salt Lake City
6. Jive Communications, Salt Lake City
7. Lingotek, Salt Lake City
8. Lucid Software, Salt Lake City
9. Overstock.com, Salt Lake City
10. Pluralsight, Salt Lake City
11. Qualtrics, Salt Lake City
12. Simplus, Salt Lake City
13. The REDX, Salt Lake City
14. Verisys Corporation, Salt Lake City
15. Workfront, Salt Lake City
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San Francisco
1. Adobe, San Jose, Calif.
2. Apple, Cupertino, Calif.
3. Branch Metrics, San Francisco
4. Envoy, San Francisco
5. Facebook, Menlo Park, Calif.
6. Google, Mountain View, Calif.
7. Intuit, Mountain View, Calif.
8. LinkedIn, Sunnyvale, Calif.
9. Netflix, Los Gatos, Calif.
10. Nvidia, Santa Clara, Calif.
11. Periscope Data, San Franicisco
12. Salesforce, San Francisco
13. SiteTraker, Palo Alto, Calif.
14. Slack, San Francisco
15. VMware, Palo Alto, Calif.
Seattle
1. Amazon, Seattle
2. Code.org, Seattle
3. Concur, Bellevue, Wash.
4. Costco, Issaquah, Wash.
5. CreativeLive, Seattle
6. F5 Networks, Seattle
7. Microsoft, Redmond, Wash.
8. RealSelf, Seattle
9. Redfin, Seattle
10. Slalom Consulting, Seattle
11. Starbucks, Seattle
12. T-Mobile, Bellevue, Wash.
13. Tableau Software, Seattle
14. UnifyCloud, Redmond, Wash.
15. Zillow, Seattle
Washington D.C.
1. Amtrak, Washington D.C.
2. BizMerlin, Vienna, Va.
3. Capital One, McLean, Va.
4. Geico, Chevy Chase, Md.
5. Marriott, Bethesda, Md.
6. MITRE, McLean, Va.
7. Mobomo, Vienna, Va.
8. NetCentrics Corporation, Herndon, Va.
9. New Signature, Washington D.C.
10. Rally Health, Washington D.C.
11. The Advisory Board Company, Washington D.C.
12. TrackMaven, Washington D.C.
13. Under Armour, Baltimore, Md.
14. Vox Media, Washington D.C.
15. XLA, Vienna, Va.
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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 (Jan. 1, 2017– Nov. 17, 2017). There were no fees or costs associated with participating, nor was nomination required.
*ReachLocal is a unit of Gannett, the parent company of USA TODAY.
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