Costco's Craig Jelinek Makes List Of 100 'Best' CEOs

ISSAQUAH, WA - Predictably, a number of high-profile Puget Sound companies made Glassdoor's 2017"100 Best Places to Work" list. But more interesting, there are a few high-profile local companies that did not make the list.

Microsoft was technically the highest on the list at No. 39, but Google and Facebook (Nos. 1 and 5, respectively) have offices in the area. Seattle's Protiviti, Redmond's SpaceX, Zillow, and REI, headquartered in Kent, rounded out the top five local companies on the list.

Absent from the list? Amazon, Costco, Nordstrom, and Weyerhaeuser. Ballard's Gravity Payments, the company that increased minimum wage to $70,000 for all employees, didn't make the list either.

Bellevue's T-Mobile came in at No. 79, but CEO John Legere was ranked No. 20 on a list of best CEOs to work for. Expedia's Dara Khosrowshahi, Zillow's Spencer Rascoff, Costco's Craig Jelinek, Blake Nordstrom, and REI's Jerry Stritzke also made the top 100.

Here's where local companies landed on the list:

1. Facebook*
5. Google**
39. Microsoft
47. Protiviti
50. SpaceX
57. Zillow
61. REI
79. T-Mobile
96. Starbucks

*Facebook has a large office in Seattle

**Google has offices in Kirkland and Seattle

Photo: Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with Costco CEO Craig Jelinek, right, as co-founder Jim Sinegal watches at center, after Biden arrived to shop at the new Costco store in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. Biden went shopping for presents and to highlight the importance of renewing middle-class tax cuts so families and businesses have more certainty at this critical time for our economy.

Photo by Susan Walsh/Associated Press