Editor’s note: This article was first published in August 2010. It is a ranking from that time, and several companies have since changed: Banesto was absorbed by Santander in 2013, La Caixa’s banking business is now CaixaBank, and Alcatel-Lucent was acquired by Nokia in 2016.
These are the companies in Spain that currently pay their employees best, with the highest salaries. Here is the ranking of the top 10 companies whose workers earn the most.
1. Kimberly-Clark: Focused both on products for babies and children and on making and selling toilet paper, it tops the list of the 10 best-paying companies in Spain.
2. Alcatel-Lucent: It remains a very attractive company in the eyes of job seekers. As you can probably guess, this company makes telephones.
3. BAT: Tobacco is still a profitable sector, which puts this company in third place among the employers that look after their staff financially.
4. Philips Ibérica
5. Sanitas
6. Telefónica
7. Banesto
8. SAP España
9. La Caixa
10. Coca-Cola España
That said, when choosing a company you’re going to spend a lot of working hours with, and that will take up a large part of your life, money shouldn’t be the only thing you look at. Sometimes the difference in pay is small compared with the big side benefits of being comfortable and happy where you work.
That’s why we put together another ranking, of the 10 best companies to work for, where you’ll notice significant changes in the positions.
Featured image: PawełMM, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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