Percentage of top U. S. publicly traded employers offering partner health benefits

• 39% of Fortune 1000 largest U.S. publicly-traded employers offer health insurance benefits to same sex partners, based on 2008 rankings

• Of the 390 companies in the Fortune 1000 who offer domestic partner benefits, 210 of these offer partner benefits to opposite sex partners, or 21% of the Fortune 1000 ranking of largest U.S. publicly traded companies in 2008 offer health benefits to same and opposite sex partners.

• The most competitive employers are more likely to offer domestic partner benefits to employees; the percentage of businesses offering domestic partner benefits increases as the ranking by Fortune magazine increases.

• 57% of the employers in the Fortune 500 ranking of the largest U.S. publicly-traded businesses for 2008 provide domestic partner benefits to employees --including the following Minnesota employers who rank in the top Fortune 500 for 2008:
  
  
  • 3M   (ranked 100 by Fortune magazine in 2008)
  • Ameriprise Financial (formerly American Express / IDS)
  • BestBuy Co. Inc.   (ranked 66 by Fortune magazine in 2008)
  • Ecolab Inc.
  • General Mills
  • Land O’Lakes
  • Medtronic Inc.
  • Northwest Airlines Corp.
  • Supervalu Inc. (ranked 62 by Fortune magazine in 2008)
  • Target Corp. (ranked 31 by Fortune magazine in 2008)
  • U.S. Bancorp
  • UnitedHealth Group Inc. (ranked 25 by Fortune magazine in 2008)
  • Xcel Energy

• 83% of employers who are ranked in the Fortune 100 largest U.S. publicly-traded businesses for the 2008 rankings provide domestic partner benefits to employees