The survey interviewed nearly 100,000 employees from 406 different companies and asked them to evaluate their employers. These firms ranked the highest.

By CNN Money.com, Fortune

Google

Best Companies rank: 1
2006 Revenues (millions): $10,605
Headquarters: Mountain View, CA
Get quote: GOOG

What makes it so great? Back in our No. 1 spot, Google continued to mint millionaires as the stock cracked $700. The company gives stock options to 99% of employees.

Quicken Loans

Best Companies rank: 2
2006 Revenues (millions): $602
Headquarters: Livonia, MI

What makes it so great? "Ethically driven" is what one employee calls the online mortgage lender. It avoided the sub-prime crisis by sticking with plain-vanilla loans.

Wegmans Food Markets

Best Companies rank: 3
2006 Revenues (millions): $4,119
Headquarters: Rochester, NY

What makes it so great? Shopping is theater at this family-owned 71-store chain. It was named the nation's top supermarket by the Food Network in 2007.

Edward Jones

Best Companies rank: 4
2006 Revenues (millions): $3,518
Headquarters: St. Louis, MO

What makes it so great? Some 70% of employees in the St. Louis home office got a 6.5% raise last year as the brokerage firm opened 1,000 new offices in the U.S.

Genentech

Best Companies rank: 5
2006 Revenues (millions): $9,284
Headquarters: South San Francisco, CA
Get quote: DNA

What makes it so great? Legendarily perk-heavy biotechnology firm (doggie day care; on site farmers' market) bumped up 401(k) match in 2007 (100% up to 5% of pay).

Cisco Systems

Best Companies rank: 6
2006 Revenues (millions): $28,500
Headquarters: San Jose, CA
Get quote: CSCO

What makes it so great? Though the stock flat-lined in 2007, CEO John Chambers won praise for his leadership and his new blog, On My Mind, which solicits employee ideas.

Starbucks

Best Companies rank: 7
2006 Revenues (millions): $7,800
Headquarters: Seattle, WA
Get quote: SBUX

What makes it so great? Rapid expansion led to a difficult year, but the stock rose 9% on January news that founder Howard Schultz is taking over the CEO post.

Qualcomm

Best Companies rank:8
2006 Revenues (millions): $7,256
Headquarters: San Diego, CA
Get quote:QCOM

What makes it so great? New employees get stock options and 100% health insurance coverage. The popular on site primary-care clinic is quadrupling in size.

Goldman Sachs

Best Companies rank: 9
2006 Revenues (millions): $37,700
Headquarters: New York, NY
Get quote: GS

What makes it so great? It was a rough year for Wall Street, but Goldman had record sales and profits. Comp and benefits rose 23% from the previous year, to $20.19 billion.

Methodist Hospital System

Best Companies rank: 10
2006 Revenues (millions): $1,587
Headquarters: Houston, TX

What makes it so great? Last year Methodist added a new program called "No One Dies Alone," in which employees volunteer time with terminal patients.