Three San Antonio-based companies are ranked among the “100 Best Companies to Work For” in 2011 in the Feb. 7 issue of Fortune magazine, which will hit the newsstands Monday and appeared online Thursday.
USAA is the top San Antonio-based company on the list at No. 17. NuStar Energy L.P. is No. 30, and Rackspace Hosting landed at No. 92.
While San Antonio can claim to be the headquarters home for three companies on the list, entire states came up empty. They include Arizona, Indiana, Maine, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Carolina and others.
California has the most companies on the list with 16 headquarters. Texas is second with 13, followed by New York with 11.
Insurance and financial services giant USAA rose from its 2010 ranking, No. 45. NuStar Energy ranked No. 21 last year. Rackspace did not appear on the list last year but has been listed three of the last four years.
Last year, New Braunfels-based Scooter Store was No. 38 but is not listed for 2011.
Companies at least seven years old and with more than 1,000 U.S. workers are eligible. Participating in the 2011 survey were 311 companies.
USAA participated in 2009 for the 2010 list for the first time since 2001.
According to the magazine, USAA employs 21,889 workers in the United States and 125 in foreign offices. USAA job applicants number 111,849, and the company’s yearly turnover rate is 4 percent.
“There is a direct correlation between great customer service and a great working environment. If you care about your employees, your employees will take good care of your customers,” USAA President and CEO Joe Robles said in a statement Thursday.
“Moving up on the Fortune list underscores what we have known all along: that USAA is an amazing place to work, and we love what we do,” Robles added.
NuStar Energy employs 1,419 U.S. workers and 386 at foreign sites. The company has 14,037 applicants on file, the magazine said, and has a 2 percent turnover rate.
“Thanks to our employees, we had another great year in 2010 as we achieved strong earnings, expanded our operations through acquisitions and internal growth projects, contributed record amounts of time and money to our communities and continued to make NuStar an even greater place to work,” said Curt Anastasio, NuStar Energy president and CEO.
A Fortune article accompanying its 2011 list profiles NuStar and its employee benefits along with Anastasio and NuStar Energy Chairman Bill Greehey.
“Early in (Greehey’s) career, he’d seen places that treated employees shabbily, and he knew the kind of company he didn’t want. Greehey once fired a talented senior executive because he continually berated his subordinates,” the magazine reports.
Rackspace, a hosting and cloud computing company, has 2,405 U.S. workers and 573 at foreign sites. Applications on file total 31,408, and the turnover rate is 8 percent. Rackspace said it hires about 1 percent of its applicants.
“We are totally thrilled to be selected,” said Rackspace Chairman Graham Weston in an e-mail.