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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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

4.0

Nov 10, 2025

Good Opportunity

Border force officer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

- Civil Service - Pay - Colleagues

Cons

- Shifts - Flexibility - Management

4.0

Nov 9, 2025

Under Trained & Too high caseload

Litigation caseworker

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Friendly team (bar useless Mentor) , excellent line manager, moderate shift flexibility, hybrid - can work from home a couple of days per week, occasional secondment opportunities.

Cons

Terrible Mentor assigned - no training given to Mentor. Ended up with a negative nelly who wouldn't show me how to make case updates in clunky systems, would not sit with me to review my queries and who sent snotty emails. Thrown into complex time critical Judicial Reviews after brief intro to them in initial training 6 months previously and assigned a critical and unhelpful mentor. Bizarrely clunky admin to deal with costs and requesting reconsiderations. Want to run a legal query as a novice past HEO sitting next to you? That'll require you to fill in a 3 page form in a strict window. Someone challenging a refusal to give them an entry visa composed of a 15 page legal letter with 150 supporting documents? You have a few hours to analyse it and produce a highly structured report and a decision letter that tackles every point.

4.0

Nov 8, 2025

Ok job

Executive officer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

stable, good people at your grade

Cons

Sri and above are generally over promoted and there is little opportunity to create effective chabge

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