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 (4859) , Customer Service Representative (1099) , Sales Advisor (1049) , Sales Consultant (1014) , Geek Squad, Consultation Agent (869) , Customer Service Specialist (571) , Product Flow Specialist (567) , Best Buy Mobile Sales Associate (562) , Inventory Specialist (542) , Retail Sales Associate (521) , 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 2551 reviews)); "the people you meet are great and if you want to move up in the company is great" ((in 2435 reviews)); "The benefits are great and the tasks are not extremely difficult" ((in 2002 reviews)); "The coworkers are great and know how to make a bad day turn out better." ((in 1457 reviews)); "I was in school at the time so flexible hours were a must and they were understanding" ((in 1126 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 2821 reviews)); "really bad managers with hr violations against them that best buy corporate would not handle." ((in 1279 reviews)); "You are judged on your sales number's so no commission doesn't feel good." ((in 754 reviews)); "Too much favoritism from management." ((in 568 reviews)); "no work life balance its a all hands on deck environment right now got to save the company" ((in 501 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

(41,847 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 41,847 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

Jan 5, 2011

horrid

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

Best buy has a solid training program for new employees and training regarding new products. It's retail hours but usually very acomodating.

Cons

Best Buy does not have a system to make sure that the people who are promotoed are capable or knowledgeable about hr practices and professionalism.

2.0

Oct 21, 2010

Never good enough. Brownnosing and lots of middle management duplicity.

Sales associate

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Good discount. It's better on some things but not as good as sales prices on others. If you like customer service, you get to deal with a lot of different people. Somewhat fast-paced at times.

Cons

Never recognized for hard work, determination, initiative, or giving the 110% that is incessantly preached. Vert rarely recognized for sales volume, and when you are, it is quickly followed with a "but, you should've added..." or "next time, say..." Many, many, many meetings that force you to push needless products on customers. If you hate being approached 12 times by sales associates with fake grins in the first 5 minutes you walk in somewhere, you will hate working here. You feel like an enormous hypocrite. The middle management will drive you insane. Lots of brown nosing to seniors and condescending remarks to workers.

5.0

Oct 5, 2010

Maybe one of the best retail companies to work for

Asset protection specialist

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

management support of employees, recognition for good job performance, management sticking to policies in relation to customer returns, company values its employees, excellent training program.

Cons

pay needs to be better, asset protection is used more as a customer service position than traditional ap, 30 minute lunch break only if you work over 7 hours and that wont happen very often.

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