Tuesday, August 28, 2007: Page updated at 12:00 AM

UPDATED FOR 2007

Buyouts reshape region's business | With the 16th annual Northwest 100, The Seattle Times looks at what goes into success among the publicly held companies of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Our proprietary ranking system recognizes the best growth over two years in four areas: sales per employee, operating income, return on equity and stock price.

A total of 128 companies qualified for the Northwest 100 ranking; online, 33 additional companies round out list of 161 publically traded companies in the region. All data was compiled from Bloomberg News, Securities and Exchange Commission filings and company reports.

The ranking

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Complete list of companies

NW 100 TOP TEN
1. PW Eagle
2. City Bank
3. aQuantive
4. Concur Technologies
5. Pope Resources
6. Cascade Bancorp
7. American Ecology
8. Key Tronic
9. Itron
10. Frontier Financial
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UPDATED FOR 2007

Despite heat, pay at the top kept going up | The Northwest's top CEOs saw their pay go way up last year, according to a new analysis for The Seattle Times. More than half of the 20 best-paid CEOs who were in place for both 2005 and 2006 made at least $4.7 million, a 28 percent increase from the year before.

Kerry Killinger, CEO of Washington Mutual, topped this year's list of publicly traded companies with a pay package valued at $18.1 million. Among 113 Northwest CEOs whose pay was disclosed under new Securities and Exchange Commission rules, median pay rose 17 percent to $1.1 million.

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UPDATED FOR 2006

We've updated our data on boards of directors and expanded it to take in the three-state Northwest region. If you’re looking for information on a Northwest company, you will also see who sits on that company’s board. If you look up a board member, you will find information on his or her role in the company, as well as links to other members of that board and to the company’s Northwest 100 financial data.

• Alphabetical listing of all board members profiled and the companies to which they belong