Top 50 companies with the best pay packages – according to employees

Do you believe you’re paid fairly? Workplace analysts from Comparably.com asked 10 million workers as part of its annual list of companies with the best pay packages.

For 2020, a winner on Wall Street in the work-from-home era climbed six spots to No. 4 to join powerhouses in tech – Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon – in the top five.

Zoom, maker of the eponymous video conferencing platform, grew in popularity across the world during the massive shift to remote working in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

On the home front, the company won approval from its own employees: it garnered 98% positive reviews from staff members who took part in the survey. This earned Zoom an A+ rating overall.

“As a testament to this, when employees are asked ‘Do you believe you’re paid fairly?’, 91% say ‘Yes’. The IT department is the most satisfied with their compensation, ranking it 100/100, a full 18 points above the admin department,” Comparably found.

Apart from the competitive pay, Zoom said it also offers employees free medical, dental, mental health and vision benefits; stock options; health savings account (HSA) and flexible spending account (FSA) plans; wellness and fitness reimbursement; unlimited paid time-off; paid parental leave for 12 weeks; and short-term or long-term disability and life insurance, among other benefits.

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Meanwhile, Google and Facebook have both consistently dominated the annual list, taking over the Nos. 1 and 2 spots, respectively, since 2018.

Google has 85% positive reviews and an A+ rating of its compensation packages. Salaries at the internet giant range from US$37,305 to $600,000. The three positions with the highest estimated salaries are finance director, HR director and vice president of product, the report said.

Runner-up Facebook garnered 83% positive reviews and an A+ rating. Pay ranges from $40,000 to $308,913. Jobs with the highest estimated salaries include VP of sales, group product manager and principal engineer.

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Amazon and Apple, on the other hand, made it back into the top 10 at Nos. 5 and 8, respectively, after falling just outside the top roster in 2019. Compared with other front runners in the tech scene, however, Amazon earned only 78% and Apple 75% positive reviews from employees polled by Comparably. This gives the two companies a B+ rating overall.

Amazon’s admin department is the “most satisfied” with their compensation, ranking it 85/100.

Over at Apple, the communications department showed the highest satisfaction, giving the company’s remuneration system a score of 91/100, the report found.

Here are the top 50 large companies (500+ employees) with the best-paying jobs, according to employees polled by Comparably:

1. Google
2. Facebook
3. Microsoft
4. Zoom Video Communications
5. Amazon
6. UiPath
7. RingCentral
8. Apple
9. Netflix
10. SBA Communications
11. Thomson Reuters
12. Farmers Insurance
13. ADP
14. LinkedIn
15. Verizon
16. T-Mobile
17. Sage
18. Bell
19. Qualtrics
20. Workfront
21. Trimble
22. Insight Global
23. Medela
24. GitLab
25. Luxoft
26. Ultimate Software
27. Smartsheet
28. ManTech
29. Concentrix
30. HubSpot
31. KeepTruckin
32. BairesDev
33. Dynatrace
34. Centric
35. Northside Hospital
36. Weave HQ
37. Confluent
38. Bank of America
39. Seismic
40. Vector Marketing
41. BambooHR
42. Malouf
43. Citi
44. Loanpal
45. ZoomInfo
46. Dell
47. Alkami Technology
48. Better.com
49. Intel
50. Pipedrive

Check out the full list and an in-depth report for the winners of the Best Companies to Work For in Australia in HRD’s 5-Star Employers of Choice for 2023.