Iowa Grocery Industry Association

TULSA, Okla. – For the eighth straight year, QuikTrip Corporation has captured a spot on Fortune magazine’s list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For,” coming in at No. 41. Last year, it was ranked at No. 27.

The Tulsa, Okla.-based convenience store and gasoline retailer made the list because “new employees at this Midwest chain of convenience stores are taken under the wing of mentors, who work with them for two weeks,” said the report. It added, “Full-time turnover is 12 percent, and the company maintains an IT staff of 79 to keep things running.”

The company employs 10,311 people, all in the United States, and 314 new jobs are created each year, a five percent growth, the magazine said.

The most common salaried job, store manager, earns $69,560. The most common hourly job, relief assistant, earns $44,084.

“This year, I believe QuikTrip’s culture and core values really made the difference in being selected to be on this prestigious list,” Chet Cadieux, president and CEO of QuikTrip, told KRMG Radio in Tulsa. “Despite the economic landscape, our steadfast belief in giving our employees the opportunity to grow and succeed is in direct correlation to our aggressive growth in store count. Our long term focus to excel in our fresh food offer through QuikTrip Kitchens furthers this objective.”

QuikTrip operates about 540 locations in 11 states. Its major markets are Atlanta; Dallas-Fort Worth; Kansas City; St. Louis; Tulsa; Des Moines, Iowa; Omaha, Neb.; and Phoenix. It also recently entered the Tucson, Ariz., market.

To view QuikTrip’s fill listing in Fortune’s “Best Companies to Work For” ranking, please visit www.cnnmoney.com.