Who's Paying Their Employees Top Dollar?
Highest Paying Companies (Salaried Employees)
(According to Fortune Magazine 2008)
- Bingham McCutchen, Associates, average pay $211,017
- Arnold & Porter, Associates, average pay $194,575
- Alston & Bird, Associate Attorneys, average pay $190, 135
- Shared Technologies, Sales reps, $187,137
- Nixon Peabody, Associate Attorneys, $178,016
- Devon Energy, Engineer, $173,057
- Perkins Coie, Associates, $162,860
- EOG Resources, Engineers, $146,739
- Adobe Systems, Computer Scientists, $137,691
- Goldman Sachs, Other Exempt (Analysts, Program Analysts, Associates, and Professional Non-Exempt), $137,000
- Boston Consulting Group, Consultants, $136,706
- Cisco Systems, Software Engineers IV, $132,004
- Network Applicane, MTS Software 4, $129,689
- Kimley-Horn & Associates, Project Managers, $127,167
- eBay, Software Engineers 4, $125,889
- Robert W. Baird, Financial Analysts, $123,800
- Texas Instruments, Electrical Design Engineers, $116,636
- MITRE, Lead Information Systems Engineers, $116,291
- Yahoo, Technical Yahoo, $116,250
- S.C. Johnson & Son, Senior Research Scientist, $110,587
- Ohio Health, Pharmacists, $108,143
- Chesapeake Energy, Toolpushers, $108,031
- Publix Super Markets, Store Managers, $107,280
- SAS Institute, Software Developers, $104,566
- Johnson Financial Group, Commercial Relationship Managers III, $104,561
A Man’s World? Top Companies for Women
Magazines like Pink cater to women in high powered careers and offer information on top companies for women in terms of pay and leadership roles. The top 13 companies for women included American Express, Bebe Stores Inc. (89% of women among the top fifth of the payroll), and Liz Claiborne Inc., where women hold 6 of the 9 positions leading operations with revenue of 100 million or more. Pink highlights successful women like Carrie Salone, owner and operator of a multi-million dollar McDonald’s franchise, and Jacky Teplitzky, managing director at real estate brokerage firm Prudential Douglas Elliman, who passed the half billion dollar mark in Manhattan property sales.