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Winners

Massachusetts
Top 100 finalists
City	Population
Newton	83,200
Other cities
City	Population
Barnstable Town	49,318
Boston	575,959
Brockton	97,056
Brookline	58,456
Cambridge	102,740
Chicopee	55,291
Fall River	94,124
Framingham	65,859
Haverhill	60,053
Lawrence	73,882
Lowell	104,540
Lynn	90,726
Malden	56,631
Medford	55,350
New Bedford	95,204
Peabody	49,305
Quincy	89,766
Somerville	77,012
Springfield	152,382
Taunton	58,334
Waltham	60,308
Weymouth	53,932
Worcester	178,545

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Pick a state
State	No. of finalists
Alabama	1
Alaska	0
Arizona	3
Arkansas	1
California	6
Colorado	4
Connecticut	2
Delaware	0
District of Columbia	0
Florida	4
Georgia	0
Hawaii	0
Idaho	1
Illinois	4
Indiana	1
Iowa	3
Kansas	3
Kentucky	0
Louisiana	0
Maine	1
Maryland	2
Massachusetts	1
Michigan	5
Minnesota	4
Mississippi	0
Missouri	3
Montana	0
Nebraska	2
Nevada	1
New Hampshire	1
New Jersey	5
New Mexico	2
New York	2
North Carolina	2
North Dakota	2
Ohio	2
Oklahoma	3
Oregon	3
Pennsylvania	1
Rhode Island	2
South Carolina	1
South Dakota	0
Tennessee	1
Texas	10
Utah	3
Vermont	0
Virginia	3
Washington	1
West Virginia	0
Wisconsin	4
Wyoming	0

Massachusetts companies
FORTUNE: Best to work for
Company	Best Companies 2006 Rank
Boston Consulting Group	11
Nixon Peabody	49
Genzyme	51
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FORTUNE 500
Company	F500 rank
Mass. Mutual Life Insurance	92
Raytheon	97
Liberty Mutual Insurance Group	102
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Biggest employers
Company	Employees
Umass Memorial Hospitals Inc	8,683
State Street Bank & Trust Company	7,619
Brigham And Women's Hospital Inc, The	7,500

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