USA Today is out with its annual best-places-to-work list, based on employee surveys conducted with Energage. It turns out that a mortgage-lending company in Wisconsin comes in at No. 1 in the survey, which this year included responses from 2,251 companies. (Nearly 40,000 were invited to participate.) The top 10 finishers:
                                    
                                    
                                
                                
                             
                            
                            
                            
                            
                            
                                
                                
                                    
                                        
 -  Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp., Madison, Wisconsin (mortgage lending)
-  Plante Moran, Southfield, Michigan (certified public accountants)
-  Fannie Mae, Washington, DC (mortgage lending)
-  CHG Healthcare, Midvale, Utah (staffing)
-  Progressive Insurance, Mayfield Village, Ohio (general insurance)
-  CMG, San Ramon, California (mortgage lending)
-  The Baldwin Group, Tampa, Florida (general insurance)
-  New American Funding, Tustin, California (mortgage lending)
-  Mountain America Credit Union, Sandy, Utah (credit union)
-  Laitrim-Intralox, Harahan, Louisiana (machinery) 
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