Job Growth at the "Best Companies"

This is a terrific and interesting visualization by Nicolas Rapp, done for Fortune's article on the 100 Best Companies to Work For:

For those of us who try to figure out what new and young companies contribute to the economy in terms of job creation, this is another useful reminder that large companies matter, too. These 100 companies, representing one-ten-thousandth of all companies in the US, employ 1.1 percent of the American workforce. I cannot tell if this really only counts US employees, because we know Microsoft, among others, has many employees overseas. 

In any case, it is an interesting chart for seeing existing employment and where people have applied for jobs: 7.6 million job applications at Starbucks last year!