By Rita R. Robison, Consumer Specialist, Blogging at The Survive and Thrive Boomer Guide

For 10 years, DiversityInc has complied a list of the top 50 companies in the United Stated based on their policies on diversity.

About 1,000 companies were sent a detailed survey of more than 200 questions. The overall intent is to draw an accurate picture of a company’s culture.

Each company that enters receives a report card based on four areas that are measured: CEO commitment, human capital, corporate and organizational communications, and supplier diversity plus a total point score.

A company must have at least 1,000 U.S. employees to take part in the survey. In 2009, 401 companies participated.

DiversityInc, located in Newark, N.J., is a consulting firm that specializes in diversity information and management.

Here are the top 50 American companies for diversity, according to the DiversityInc survey:

No. 1 Johnson & Johnson
No. 2 AT&T
No. 3 Ernst & Young
No. 4 Marriott International
No. 5 PricewaterhouseCoopers
No. 6 Sodexo
No. 7 Kaiser Permanente
No. 8 Merck & Co.
No. 9 The Coca-Cola Co.
No. 10 IBM Corp.
No. 11 Procter & Gamble
No. 12 Verizon Communications
No. 13 American Express Co.
No. 14 Bank of America
No. 15 JPMorgan Chase
No. 16 Abbott
No. 17 Cox Communications
No. 18 Pepsi Bottling Group
No. 19 MGM MIRAGE
No. 20 Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.
No. 21 KPMG
No. 22 Health Care Service Corp.
No. 23 Accenture
No. 24 PepsiCo
No. 25 Capital One Financial Corp.
No. 26 Henry Ford Health System
No. 27 Colgate-Palmolive
No. 28 Ford Motor Co.
No. 29 The Walt Disney Co.
No. 30 Comerica
No. 31 Wells Fargo & Co.
No. 32 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida
No. 33 Deloitte
No. 34 HSBC – North America
No. 35 Xerox Corp.
No. 36 Monsanto Co.
No. 37 AARP
No. 38 Time Warner Cable
No. 39 Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide
No. 40 Toyota Motor North America
No. 41 MasterCard Worldwide
No. 42 Cummins
No. 43 MetLife
No. 44 WellPoint
No. 45 Prudential Financial
No. 46 SC Johnson
No. 47 General Mills
No. 48 Aetna
No. 49 CSX
No. 50 KeyBank

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