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 (4850) , Customer Service Representative (1099) , Sales Advisor (1046) , 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 2522 reviews)); "the people you meet are great and if you want to move up in the company is great" ((in 2426 reviews)); "The benefits are great and the tasks are not extremely difficult" ((in 1996 reviews)); "The coworkers are great and know how to make a bad day turn out better." ((in 1455 reviews)); "I was in school at the time so flexible hours were a must and they were understanding" ((in 1094 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 2828 reviews)); "really bad managers with hr violations against them that best buy corporate would not handle." ((in 1268 reviews)); "No commission and non individual bonus system in place to leave associates making only hourly rate." ((in 760 reviews)); "Very political and far to much favoritism." ((in 564 reviews)); "no work life balance its a all hands on deck environment right now got to save the company" ((in 514 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

(41,808 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 41,808 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

Sep 9, 2008

Great place, but stay motivated.

Anonymous employee

Recommend

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Pros

Typically you will see very forward thinking people. It is an outside the box company... Every time I have ever had an issue, I have had a VERY unique response to it that both solved the issue and helped me remember what I had to do to get the answer that I needed.

Cons

You CANNOT be a full time worker and expect to have much of a social life, or go to school. They are very strict about hours, and ratios of opens to closes, and open shifts of weekends.

3.0

Sep 8, 2008

It is what it is

Product specialist

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

Great discount. People are usually fun to work with if you are a little younger.

Cons

The day after Thanksgiving. There is nothing fun about getting to the store before it is light outside, seeing the massive number of people camped out, then dealing with the madness once the doors open. Then after the "rush" is over, everything is in a mess. I also do not like dealing with jerk customers.

5.0

Sep 8, 2008

Pretty good place to be.

Customer assistant (ca)

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The people are all pretty good... I can't think of many that I outright dislike out of more than one hundred employees at my store. Plus the discount is awesome on a lot of things: definitely a great reason to work there. Plus the great thing is working with technology... something that I always love to do. I always feel up to date on the latest stuff and everything is truly what I love to sell so that makes me very happy. I do not think that the prices are fair for everything... but overall the value for your money is also pretty good.

Cons

The scheduling system is a bit hectic at times. It's all done by computer and then modified by humans. I was receiving pretty decent hours but it was all extremely inconsistent. I could be working near full time hours (30-40) one week and then the next week end up working as little as five or ten. Another thing that annoys me sometimes is some of the hoops you need to jump through procedural wise. I'm not sure if all stores would do a few things... but there are a couple "busy work" activities that a lot of employees end up doing.

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