The 50 best companies to work for in America

Finding the perfect job can be tough - it can often mean choosing between great benefits, a big paycheck, and doing something you're passionate about. But if you work at the right place, you don't have to choose.

Business Insider teamed up with PayScale, a company that tracks and researches employee compensation and benefit information, to find dream-job companies where a premium is placed on employee satisfaction.

To create the list, PayScale ranked companies on the 2015 Fortune 500 list against its salary and survey database, homing in on six criteria: high job satisfaction, low job stress, ability to telecommute, high job meaning, experienced median pay (for employees with at least five years of experience), and whether a company pays above or below market price for their employees. Read a detailed breakdown of the methodology here.

Google dethroned last year's No. 1, Facebook, to take the top spot this year, followed by pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb and software company Symantec. Electric utility Southern Company and Facebook round out the top-5. Keep reading to check out the full list of the best companies to work for in America.