2011 Best Companies for Hourly Workers List

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For technology and entertainment buffs, working for this consumer electronics retailer might sound like a dream, thanks to the deep discounts it offers hourly employees on store products and company...

Bon Secours Richmond Health System

Teaching its employees to aim high is the secret to success for this Virginia-based health-care system. At least three times per year, its leaders are trained on how best to manage and advance hourly...

Capital One Financial

Performing millions of complex transactions every day keeps call center associates, tellers and other hourly employees at this leading bank constantly on their toes. To reward their efforts,...

Carlson

This global hospitality and travel giant operates in 150 countries, employing more than 28,000 hourly workers in the United States alone. Despite its size, Carlson manages to offer its working...

Cricket Communications

Staying healthy is a little easier for employees of this wireless communications provider, which makes medical coverage available to anyone working 30 hours per week and pays 80% of the cost. Under...

Marriott International

This hospitality services company has long been famed for the flexibility it offers its hourly employees—everything from compressed workweeks for hotel staffers to at-home jobs for those in customer...

McDonald’s

Learning to juggle orders behind restaurant counters and drive-through windows paved the way to success for many of this food service retailer’s top executives, and professional growth is still...

Sodexo

With a wide swath of 6,000 clients to serve across North America, this service-solutions company places hourly workers everywhere from cafeterias and laundry plants to custodial and housekeeping...

University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics

Whether they’re rushing to treat emergency patients wheeled into intensive care or calmly scheduling next month’s bariatric surgeries, the pace rarely slows for the 5,417 hourly workers employed by...

UNM Hospitals

Skipping your vacation to work is not an option at this academic medical center, which takes the health of its hourly employees seriously. Anyone who works 20 hours per week receives ten to 20 paid...

USAA

Big benefits are the business of this financial services company, which provides military families with everything from insurance to credit cards and IRAs. Internally, it spends more than $400...

Valassis

Imagine being paid for a 40-hour workweek but only putting in 37.5 hours. For many hourly employees of this media and marketing services company, management offers this option to ensure they make...