| Rank | Company | Job Growth | U.S. Employees | |
| 1 | Genentech | 20% | 8,121 | |
| 2 | Wegmans Food Markets | 7% | 31,890 | |
| 3 | Valero LP | 5% | 16,582 | |
| 4 | Griffin Hospital | 2% | 1,049 | |
| 5 | W.L. Gore & Associates | 6% | 4,537 | |
| 6 | Container Corporation of America | 16% | 2,857 | |
| 7 | Vision Service Plan | -2% | 1,915 | |
| 8 | J.M. Smucker | -13% | 2,930 | |
| 9 | Recreational Equipment (REI) | 9% | 7,443 | |
| 10 | S. C. Johnson & Son | 0% | 3,404 | |
| 11 | Boston Consulting Group | 17% | 1,261 | |
| 12 | Plante & Moran | 9% | 1,356 | |
| 13 | Quicken Loans | 60% | 2,951 | |
| 14 | Homebanc | 9% | 1,342 | |
| 15 | Whole Foods Market | 18% | 33,248 | |
| 16 | Edward Jones Investments | 3% | 29,197 | |
| 17 | Republic Bank & Trust Company | -9% | 1,190 | |
| 18 | Baptist Health Care | 0% | 4,003 | |
| 19 | Alston & Bird LLP | 3% | 1,509 | |
| 20 | Kimley-Horn & Associates | 24% | 1,777 | |
| 21 | QuikTrip | 6% | 7,819 | |
| 22 | American Century Investments | 0% | 1,778 | |
| 23 | Qualcomm | 23% | 7,562 | |
| 24 | David Weekley Homes | 18% | 1,361 | |
| 25 | Cisco Systems | 8% | 26,644 | |
| 26 | Goldman Sachs | 3% | 11,836 | |
| 27 | Network Appliance | 26% | 2,712 | |
| 28 | Four Seasons Hotels | -12% | 10,625 | |
| 29 | Starbucks | 26% | 91,056 | |
| 30 | SAS Institute | 1% | 5,118 | |
| 31 | Robert W. Baird | -1% | 2,125 | |
| 32 | Alcon Laboratories Inc | 1% | 6,227 | |
| 33 | Nugget Markets | 10% | 1,091 | |
| 34 | CDW | 7% | 3,948 | |
| 35 | American Fidelity eDirect | 1% | 1,385 | |
| 36 | TDIndustries | -9% | 1,297 | |
| 37 | American Express | -3% | 42,453 | |
| 38 | Milliken | -3% | 9,300 | |
| 39 | Amgen | 6% | 11,374 | |
| 40 | JM Family Enterprises Inc. | 9% | 4,114 | |
| 41 | Timberland | -2% | 1,978 | |
| 42 | Microsoft | 1% | 37,746 | |
| 43 | Intuit | 6% | 6,516 | |
| 44 | Pella | 7% | 8,758 | |
| 45 | SRA International | 23% | 3,986 | |
| 46 | Nordstrom | 3% | 45,112 | |
| 47 | AFLAC | 5% | 4,034 | |
| 48 | Perkins Coie | -4% | 1,553 | |
| 49 | Nixon Peabody | 4% | 1,563 | |
| 50 | Northwest Community Hospital | 1% | 3,089 | |
| 51 | Genzyme | 9% | 5,399 | |
| 52 | Eli Lilly and Company | -7% | 21,898 | |
| 53 | Hot Topic | 22% | 8,314 | |
| 54 | Arnold & Porter | -4% | 1,383 | |
| 55 | Station Casinos | 6% | 10,967 | |
| 56 | Publix Super Markets | 3% | 129,412 | |
| 57 | Synovus | 0% | 11,860 | |
| 58 | Stew Leonard's | -2% | 1,819 | |
| 59 | Baptist Health South Florida | 3% | 10,706 | |
| 60 | Vanguard Group | 8% | 11,070 | |
| 61 | Sherwin-Williams Company | 14% | 27,938 | |
| 62 | Memorial Health | 2% | 4,301 | |
| 63 | Russell Investment Group | 22% | 1,092 | |
| 64 | FedEx | 7% | 212,241 | |
| 65 | PCL Construction | 26% | 2,543 | |
| 66 | MITRE | 4% | 5,575 | |
| 67 | Ernst & Young | 5% | 23,657 | |
| 68 | Bronson Healthcare Group | 6% | 3,396 | |
| 69 | Valassis Communications, Inc. | 0% | 1,803 | |
| 70 | A.G. Edwards | 0% | 15,708 | |
| 71 | PricewaterhouseCoopers | 11% | 26,392 | |
| 72 | Booz Allen Hamilton | 9% | 15,582 | |
| 73 | Yahoo | 29% | 5,444 | |
| 74 | Standard Pacific Lp | 22% | 2,317 | |
| 75 | Quad/Graphics | 1% | 10,399 | |
| 76 | Children's Heathcare of Atlanta | 4% | 4,910 | |
| 77 | National Instruments | 4% | 2,148 | |
| 78 | Methodist Hospital System | 6% | 8,714 | |
| 79 | East Penn Manufacturing | 2% | 4,082 | |
| 80 | CH2M Hill | 48% | 17,770 | |
| 81 | Autodesk | 5% | 2,098 | |
| 82 | Bingham McCutchen | 0% | 1,542 | |
| 83 | Texas Instruments | -6% | 16,102 | |
| 84 | Worthington Industries | -4% | 6,233 | |
| 85 | First Horizon National Corporation | 11% | 13,228 | |
| 86 | Principal Financial Group | 2% | 12,723 | |
| 87 | Washington Mutual | -7% | 54,396 | |
| 88 | Morrison & Foerster LLP | 3% | 2,145 | |
| 89 | Mayo Clinic | 4% | 38,085 | |
| 90 | John Wiley & Sons | 1% | 2,090 | |
| 91 | Granite Construction | 6% | 4,300 | |
| 92 | Men's Wearhouse | 9% | 10,757 | |
| 93 | CarMax | 12% | 11,400 | |
| 94 | Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. | 8% | 13,551 | |
| 95 | Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company | -2% | 3,372 | |
| 96 | IKEA (U.S.) | 18% | 9,499 | |
| 97 | Intel Corporation | 1% | 48,655 | |
| 98 | General Mills | -5% | 17,993 | |
| 99 | Marriott International | 3% | 126,704 | |
| 100 | Nike | 5% | 12,502 | |