Does Best Buy pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Best Buy employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.2 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Best Buy. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Best Buy?

59% of Best Buy employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Best Buy 3.5 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.5 for culture and values and 3.2 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Best Buy?

Sales Associate (4856) , Customer Service Representative (1099) , Sales Advisor (1048) , Sales Consultant (1014) , Geek Squad, Consultation Agent (868) , Customer Service Specialist (571) , Product Flow Specialist (567) , Best Buy Mobile Sales Associate (562) , Inventory Specialist (542) , Retail Sales Associate (519) , Best Buy Sales Associate (415) , Sales (402) , Geek Squad, Agent (CIA) (363) , Cashier (352) , Computer Sales Associate (330)

What are the pros of working at Best Buy according to real employee reviews?

"Pay was good at $15 an hour and the hours at the time of this was nice." ((in 2536 reviews)); "the people you meet are great and if you want to move up in the company is great" ((in 2429 reviews)); "The benefits are great and the tasks are not extremely difficult" ((in 1966 reviews)); "The coworkers are great and know how to make a bad day turn out better." ((in 1469 reviews)); "I worked at Best Buy while I was in school and it was great because of the flexible hours." ((in 1106 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Best Buy according to real employee reviews?

"Poor management and mistreatment of staff caused a storewide exodus of more than 20 employees." ((in 2823 reviews)); "really bad managers with hr violations against them that best buy corporate would not handle." ((in 1266 reviews)); "You are judged on your sales number's so no commission doesn't feel good." ((in 768 reviews)); "Very political and far to much favoritism." ((in 562 reviews)); "no work life balance its a all hands on deck environment right now got to save the company" ((in 506 reviews))

What are employees saying about Best Buy layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Best Buy layoffs and their outlook for job security at Best Buy in 2026.

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3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(41,831 total reviews)

Corie Barry

35% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

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4.0

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3.5

Culture & values

3.5

Work/Life balance

3.2

Compensation and benefits

3.2

Career opportunities

3.1

Senior management

Best Buy has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 41,831 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Best Buy employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Einzel- & Großhandel industry (3.5 stars).

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1.0

Aug 7, 2015

No pressure sales........ for the customers.

Product process specialist

Recommend

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Pros

The only reason to work at best buy is because it is the easiest job you will find if you can ignore the BS, the benefits and discount are a nice perk as well.

Cons

Lots of politics for absolutely no reason, favoritism top to bottom, high quality employees are ignored in favor of suckup and yes men. Absolutely no emphasis on preventing shrink and theft. Unless your ideas or work is creating sales for management there is no support given. No pressure to buy on the customer but tons of pressure on the employee to sell service plans to the extent that staff may tell customers the product is out of stock so that another customer will buy it with service attached.

3.0

Jul 28, 2015

Hard work and Responsibility w/o control and accountability

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

people - there are some really bright people who work at the corporate office. the people really do have talent and want to succeed, however...the exec management has gotten in the way in the past. The good news is that they are making a serious effort to change things around

Cons

accountability is lack luster at best. give people with a higher title the ability to make decisions, manager their business and truly hold them accountable when they succeed and fail.

4.0

Jul 16, 2015

Inventory

Inventory specialist

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Typical retail, expect to know everything and be able to sell anything.

Cons

I worked warehouse and i know more about computers then most of that department and even geek squad came to me for computer help. Too much favoritism. Don't expect to move unless your friends with management.

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