16. Salesforce

Median Total Compensation: $143,750

Median Base Salary: $120,000

Most Common Position: Member of Technical Staff (124 reports)

More than 2,950 current and former Salesforce employees working in 760 roles reported their compensation to Glassdoor.

Median compensation for the San Francisco-based cloud computing company ranged from as much as $240,600 for directors (31 reports) to as little as $112,400 for sales representatives (27 reports), with member of technical staff coming in at $135,500.

Salesforce was founded in 1999, employs 19,000 people and delivered annual sales of $6.67 billion. The publicly traded company has the market-leading customer relationship management (CRM) product and has capitalized on the commercial applications of social networking.