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 (4858) , Customer Service Representative (1099) , Sales Advisor (1049) , 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 (520) , 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 the time and training for the section of the store you needed to know was helpful." ((in 2565 reviews)); "the people you meet are great and if you want to move up in the company is great" ((in 2432 reviews)); "The benefits are great and the tasks are not extremely difficult" ((in 1962 reviews)); "The coworkers are great and know how to make a bad day turn out better." ((in 1466 reviews)); "I worked at Best Buy while I was in school and it was great because of the flexible hours." ((in 1089 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 2827 reviews)); "really bad managers with hr violations against them that best buy corporate would not handle." ((in 1257 reviews)); "No commission and weak motivational methods ultimately leads to a sense of aimlessness among floor salesmen." ((in 755 reviews)); "Very political and far to much favoritism." ((in 570 reviews)); "no work life balance its a all hands on deck environment right now got to save the company" ((in 505 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

(41,839 total reviews)

Corie Barry

35% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

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4.0

Diversity & inclusion

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 41,839 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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4.0

Aug 19, 2014

Great College Job!

Best buy mobile sales associate

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CEO approval

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Pros

Flexible with school schedules and better compensation than many other retail stores.

Cons

They recently cut down on management positions which is the reason why I decided not to continue with the company.

2.0

Aug 15, 2014

Company has racist outlook

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Coworkers were awesome, very diverse. Lots of team effort. Considering such awful Management, employees were pretty cool and down to earth.

Cons

Having to digest corporates racist and discriminating perspective when approaching consumers was absolutely sickening. "If Juan and Maria walk in our store, we know they don't have that much money to spend.." "If Jill and mike walk in our store we need to up sell on all our products because we know they can afford it.." Bunch of b.s. And those ridiculous store meetings that would feed us all that crap, can u say BRAINWASHING!!! Ugh....

2.0

Aug 10, 2014

New culture; attempting to rebound; new realities of industry and economy; loss of many good leaders.

Director

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

We have a history of overcoming adversity. New management is intelligent and has calmed Wall Street. However, our plan is still not cohesive or necessarily "strong". It also seems to be highly dependent upon our primary, large competitors not creating a similar plan with greater efficiencies and cost-effectiveness - In other words, there is a better than average chance that they will do it better than we will.

Cons

Once a deep, energized, positive culture is now a feeling of simply "having a job"; many people spend time worrying about the stability of the company and/or their jobs. They also spend time brushing up on their LinkedIn profiles and job-board sites (like I am doing as I type this). There is far too much work (staying competitive has created "new"/additional work), but we have fewer people at corporate and in our store roles to accomplish that work with excellence. Often, it's not accomplished at all.

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