The top 50 places to work in 2013 according to employees

Online career resource and community website Glassdoor has released it fifth annual Employees' Choice Awards, listing the top places to work in 2013

The companies were ranked by taking cumulative average ratings from an 18-question survey completed by a half million employees between Nov. 24, 2011 and Nov. 13, 2012.

The survey asked workers to rate their overall satisfaction with their employer, in addition to ranking key workplace factors, such as career opportunities, compensation and benefits, work-life balance, senior management, culture, and values.

Following are the 50 best places to work according to Glassdoor:

1. Facebook
2. McKinsey & Company
3. Riverbed
4. Bain & Company
5. MD Anderson Cancer Center
6. Google
7. Edelman
8. National Instruments
9. In N' Out
10. Boston Consulting Group
11. Career Builder
12. Southwest
13. Chevron
14. LinkedIn
15. Rackspace Hosting
16. Gartner
17. Akamai
18. Shell
19. Workday
20. Cummins
21. REI
22. Salesforce
23. Citrix
24. Trader Joe's
25. Slalom Consulting
26. Orbitz Worldwide
27. MITRE
28. Jet Blue
29. MasterCard
30. Agilent Technologies
31. Intel Corporation
32. Hyatt
33. Red Hat
34. Apple
35. General Mills
36. MathWorks
37. Fluor
38. Qualcomm
39. Digitas
40. Biogen Idec
41. Northwestern Mutual
42. SAP
43. Ikea
44. Dow Chemical
45. Boeing Commercial Airplanes
46. Costco
47. Intermountain Healthcare
48. Turner Broadcasting
49. Eaton
50. Starbucks

Visit Glassdoor's website to see the individual scores and employee responses to the survey.

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