Does Home Office pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Home Office employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.4 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Home Office. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Home Office?

67% of Home Office employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Home Office 3.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.3 for culture and values and 3.6 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Home Office?

Executive Officer (113) , Administrative Officer (56) , EO Asylum Decision Maker (56) , Border Force Officer (36) , Civil Servant (34) , Administrative Assistant (28) , Immigration Officer (28) , Caseworker (27) , Senior Policy Advisor (23) , Policy Advisor (21) , Administration Officer (20) , Project Manager (19) , Admin Officer (18) , Decision Maker (18) , HEO (12)

What are the pros of working at Home Office according to real employee reviews?

"Work life balance is good" ((in 84 reviews)); "but the people there were great who were in my team" ((in 72 reviews)); "Great colleagues and people want to do their best." ((in 65 reviews)); "flexible working is provided which is nice" ((in 47 reviews)); "Good team collaboration and understanding" ((in 29 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Home Office according to real employee reviews?

"Low pay based on responsibility" ((in 71 reviews)); "Management are poor and unsupportive with a my way or the highway approach" ((in 55 reviews)); "Salary was low" ((in 36 reviews)); "Management get no training and it shows" ((in 30 reviews)); "Some managers have only a couple of weeks more experience than the the staff they manage." ((in 28 reviews))

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Home Office

Home Office reviews

3.7

67% would recommend to a friend

(1,310 total reviews)

Mark Sedwill

62% approve of CEO

53% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.0

Diversity & inclusion

3.8

Work/Life balance

3.6

Career opportunities

3.4

Compensation and benefits

3.3

Culture & values

3.0

Senior management

Home Office has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 1,310 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Home Office employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Regierung & öffentliche Verwaltung industry (3.6 stars).

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Reviews by job title

1K reviews

1.0

Feb 24, 2021

Civil Service good, Home Office bad

Information technology specialist

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

There are lots of pros to working in the Civil Service generally. But the Home Office has been the worst department for me.

Cons

Extremely dysfunctional HR processes. Lots of new starters who aren't put on payroll for months. I transferred, agreed a salary and they cut it by 10% a month after I'd started because it was 'outside of policy'.

1.0

Nov 19, 2020

Diversity and Inclusion strategies / policies all on paper and not in reality, top down approach not working

Official

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

You get to work on some of the most pressing and important problems in the UK.

Cons

Systemic racism, hardly any diversity and inclusion at management level. If you speak up against the echo chamber you will not progress and will be deliberately and tacitly held back. Top down approach not working - the top say the right stuff and what needs to be said because they know they have to, the junior staff all agree but middle management fail to implement any changes to recruitment and ways of working, so it stays nice and comfortable for white career civil servants who are not interested at all in making changes. The stats speak for themselves: the Home Office has one of the highest numbers of BAME staff as a govt dept and the lowest number of BAME staff in senior roles.

3.0

Sep 10, 2019

No potential to hit top of salary band

Immigration officer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Flexi time, Pension, Holidays, Sick Pay, Job security

Cons

Enter on bottom of salary band and due to pay freeze no chance of ever hitting top of band. Poor IT, poor management

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