General Mills ranks 98^th in Fortune’s Best Places to Work, with a subsidized child care center, and the ability to do your laundry on site. The Mayo Clinic located in Rochester, about an hour south of the Twin Cities, ranks 89^th.

General Mills also placed 19^th in Computerworld’s 2004 best places to work in IT, while Minnesota Life Insurance Co. ranked 8^th and West Publishing ranked 47^th.

The Twin Cities area hosts a number of Fortune 500 corporate headquarters, including, 3M, Best Buy, C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Cenex Harvest States, Ecolab, General Mills, Hormel Foods, Land O’Lakes, Medtronic, Nash Finch, Northwest Airlines, PepsiAmericas, The St. Paul Companies, SuperValu, Target, UnitedHealth Group, U.S. Bancorp, and Xcel Energy.

Deloitte and Touche’s “Technology Fast 500″ list in 2005 has 10 companies from Minnesota. Not surprisingly, three of these companies are medical equipment companies (Enpath Medical, Vascular Solutions, and Possis Medical).

In conclusion, the Twin Cities is a great place to work, with a solid base of IT technology and medical companies.