Professional Life
Most Admired Companies for Minority Professionals
By USBE
Jul 15, 2009, 19:39

Recruiting women and minorities, only to see them walk out of the door within a few years is a loss of investments and opportunity. Retaining promising employees is just as important as recruiting them. Companies are moving beyond simply acquiring a diverse work force and calling it quits: Our survey shows that many employers are successfully managing, embracing, and cultivating a diverse work environment. Minority employees give their employers improved marks on managing diversity and being fair.

Here are the top employers for minority professionals in 2009. 

1 Lockheed Martin
2 Northrop Grumman
3 Booz-Allen Hamilton
4 NASA
5 The Raytheon Company
6 IBM
7 The Boeing Company
8 Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
9 General Dynamics
10 Microsoft Corporation
11 Cisco Systems
12 Intel Corporation
13 Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)
14 Office of Naval Research (ONR)
15 The Walt Disney Company
16 American Express Company
17 AT&T
18 General Electric Company
19 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
20 Duke Energy
21 Hewlett-Packard Company
22 The Coca-Cola Company
23 Texas Instruments
24 Air Force Personnel Command
25 AutoNation, Inc.
26 Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
27 Chevron Corporation
28 FedEx Corporation
29 Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
30 Honeywell Inc.
31 Johnson & Johnson
32 Motorola, Inc.
33 Target
34 The MITRE Corporation
35 U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
36 United Technologies Corporation
37 Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
38 Abbott Laboratories
39 Bank of America
40 JPMorgan Chase
41 Bristol-Myers Squibb
42 Cardinal Health
43 Dominion
44 Citigroup Inc.
45 United Parcel Service
46 PepsiCo, Inc.
47 Corning Incorporated
48 Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC
49 ExxonMobil
50 Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
51 Medco Health Solutions, Inc.
52 Caterpillar Inc.
53 Parsons Corporation
54 Computer Science Corporation
55 Pfizer Inc.
56 Prudential Financial, Inc.
57 Safeway Inc.
58 The Dow Chemical Company
59 Sprint Nextel Corporation
60 Verizon Communications Inc.
61 The Allstate Corporation
62 Sears, Roebuck and Co.
63 Procter & Gamble Company
64 Texas Instruments
65 Comcast Corporation
66 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
67 Walgreen Co.
68 Archer Daniels Midland Company
69 ConocoPhillips
70 State Farm