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 decreased by 1% over the last 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 (4863) , Customer Service Representative (1100) , Sales Advisor (1050) , Sales Consultant (1014) , Geek Squad, Consultation Agent (872) , Customer Service Specialist (571) , Product Flow Specialist (567) , Best Buy Mobile Sales Associate (562) , Inventory Specialist (542) , Retail Sales Associate (522) , 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 2554 reviews)); "the people you meet are great and if you want to move up in the company is great" ((in 2450 reviews)); "The benefits are great and the tasks are not extremely difficult" ((in 2010 reviews)); "The coworkers are great and know how to make a bad day turn out better." ((in 1456 reviews)); "There is a lot perks to working here such as the discount and flexible hours." ((in 1083 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 2844 reviews)); "really bad managers with hr violations against them that best buy corporate would not handle." ((in 1258 reviews)); "No commission and non individual bonus system in place to leave associates making only hourly rate." ((in 765 reviews)); "Very political and far to much favoritism." ((in 552 reviews)); "no work life balance its a all hands on deck environment right now got to save the company" ((in 510 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.

Best Buy reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(41,884 total reviews)

Corie Barry

35% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

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Best Buy has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 41,884 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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42K reviews

4.0

Dec 20, 2009

Its on the upper level of Retail Careers.

Inventory specialist

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

You get a good discount on some stuff, you are always up to date on the latest electronics, and you could be working at Kmart or some crap like that. Pay is pretty ood depending on what you are,(higher up you are better pay obviously)

Cons

Not alot of Hot Chicks(at least in my store) Management can be annoying, but thats all places I guess.

1.0

Dec 19, 2009

it sucks, if you have a better place to work for go there isntead, best buy wants you to be available all the time......

Sales associate lead

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

Good pay, great friendships, hot guys, blue crew buck (bonus) awsome discount on accessories. on other stuff.

Cons

poor training sitting on a desk for hours doing elearnings... poor management that all they do is rant about why we didnt sell black tie when the customer doesnt want it and blame it on us that we didnt sell enough. o.O hours are crazy, like we dont have a life outside of work. very selfish people (management) unfair they take as long as they want on their lunch, constant harrasment to hit revenue takes a long time to move up..

3.0

Dec 17, 2009

OK but systems/co. infrastructure is atrocious.

Home theater supervisor

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

Like all of the tech. stuff we sell, store management very understanding when needing time off for medical reasons, discount

Cons

For being a fortune 500 technology retailer you would think that our computer systems and hardware (i.e. - registers, printers computer network) would work. On an average day in my departments we have to power down registers and network stations multiple times which sucks from a customer service perspective. Never worked for any one that pushes so much on the employees as this place.

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Its on the upper level of Retail Careers.

it sucks, if you have a better place to work for go there isntead, best buy wants you to be available all the time......

OK but systems/co. infrastructure is atrocious.

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