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 (4851) , 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 2574 reviews)); "the people you meet are great and if you want to move up in the company is great" ((in 2449 reviews)); "The benefits are great and the tasks are not extremely difficult" ((in 1993 reviews)); "The coworkers are great and know how to make a bad day turn out better." ((in 1458 reviews)); "I was in school at the time so flexible hours were a must and they were understanding" ((in 1095 reviews))

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

"Customer issues and management is poor when to deal with helping these Geek Squad agents." ((in 2820 reviews)); "really bad managers with hr violations against them that best buy corporate would not handle." ((in 1270 reviews)); "You are judged on your sales number's so no commission doesn't feel good." ((in 755 reviews)); "Too much favoritism and leaders don't lead." ((in 565 reviews)); "no work life balance its a all hands on deck environment right now got to save the company" ((in 497 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

3.6

59% would recommend to a friend

(41,805 total reviews)

Corie Barry

35% approve of CEO

38% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

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 3.6 out of 5 stars, based on 41,805 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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Reviews by job title

42K reviews

3.0

Aug 25, 2008

it is what it is

Appliance specialist

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

discount you get. management is easy going. super stylish blue shirts are versatile outside of work. name tags are particularly shiny. employees are young, youthful, beautiful, sexual, and bi-curious.

Cons

salary isn't fantastic. upward mobility is nonexistent. not enough pizza parties. customers are a real downer to this job. this position would be perfect if you never had to deal with customers. lots of buzzing and blinking and chirping electronics all around the store. the possibility that at any time, if computers and the like where to become self aware, that this workplace would be in the "danger zone" of their human-wrath.

3.0

Aug 24, 2008

best buy is a okay place to work if you want a great discount on electronics

Best buy mobile

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

employee discount,high end electronics, fun enviroment, the people, being around the latest electronics, getting to know when stuff comes out, cheap TVs

Cons

Typical retail nightmare, problem customers, bad managers, black Friday, management making you look bad in front of a customer by giving conflicting information, ugly uniforms, bad hours, they dont take into account if you have school or personal responsibilities

4.0

Aug 21, 2008

Good job for a high school student

Sales associate

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

It is probably the best job for a student in high school because it pays well and it does not involve any manual labor. If you are not planning on attending college, or want to dedicate your time more to work than to school they provide pretty good career opportunities to move up in the company. You will be rewared for working hard, but you also need to make sure to let others now that you are noticed. Also, if you are into electronic and purchase them frequently the employee discount is very much worth it, particularly on things like televisions and any accessory you can imagine.

Cons

The customers will expect too much, or they will want that really cheap item in the ad so you just have to deal with that. It is mostly just that the store is either dead or swarmed, and there are very few days where it is perfectly balanced so you just have one customer to deal with. In addition, if you speak two languages in a multilingual area, you will be exploited by management for no additional compensation to sell to people who not only speak your language but similar lanuages as well. There should be more money provided fo such skills.

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