Does The Home Depot pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, The Home Depot employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.5 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at The Home Depot. This rating has decreased by 2% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at The Home Depot?

68% of The Home Depot employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated The Home Depot 3.5 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.6 for culture and values and 3.5 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at The Home Depot?

Sales Associate (5823) , Cashier (4090) , Customer Service Representative (1398) , Department Supervisor (1258) , Sales Associate/Cashier (1092) , Freight Team Associate (1065) , Head Cashier (865) , Associate (741) , Customer Service Associate (723) , Lot Associate (640) , Order Fulfillment Associate (585) , Retail Sales Associate (584) , Merchandiser (505) , Garden Sales Associate (453) , Customer Service (443)

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

"good benefits for both full time and part time; benefits for domestic partners; close" ((in 3840 reviews)); "The people you work with are great and very friendly willing to help each other." ((in 3149 reviews)); "All my coworkers are great and the head cashiers always push me to do my best every day." ((in 1711 reviews)); "Flexible hours are available and even like that you can move up to a manager or DH position." ((in 1465 reviews)); "Great corporate company and culture (truly lives by the "value wheel" shown on all store" ((in 962 reviews))

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

"Poor management and it can be exhausting and can potentially negatively impact your health (think inhaling cement etc)." ((in 3544 reviews)); "they pay is low and they are do not care about their employees childcare hours when scheduling" ((in 3299 reviews)); "bad manager and mangement need to be ppl oriented and worked towards employees" ((in 1438 reviews)); "There is no work/life balance and the rumors of being a sweat shop are true." ((in 611 reviews)); "Management and Dept Supervisors have their own clicks." ((in 336 reviews))

What are employees saying about The Home Depot layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about The Home Depot layoffs and their outlook for job security at The Home Depot in 2026.

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The Home Depot reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(55,768 total reviews)

Ted Decker

66% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.0

Diversity & inclusion

3.6

Culture & values

3.5

Work/Life balance

3.5

Compensation and benefits

3.5

Career opportunities

3.2

Senior management

The Home Depot has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 55,768 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The The Home Depot 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

56K reviews

3.0

Jan 11, 2009

Home depot is ok, but not amazing

Department supervisor

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Benefits are ok, hours are fairly flexible but nothing special. Holiday pay and vacation and sick pay are nice to have and the employee stock purchase plan is beneficial.

Cons

They tight on hours over 40 and dont like to give you weekends off ever, which makes sense for retail but it still sucks. Company is cutting hours company wide and ever store is losing people. Working is becoming more and more stressful because they expect more and more out of less and less people every week it seems like. At some point there will be so few employees per customer that they will all go crazy.

2.0

Jan 9, 2009

Home Depot Executives have no clue

Hr manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

fairly good money. It was a position that definately would keep you busy. I don't have many things to say positive since THD, in their infinate wisdom, decided to eliminate all the Store HR Manager positions. What a stupid idea. The Store Managers and Assistant Store Managers can barely do their jobs now, so why not heap on HR duties to their already full plates. I would receive calls in the morning from my District Manager telling me we were over hours for the week (on a Tuesday) so we would send people home and call others telling them to not come in for the day. Later that same day I'd get a call from the same District Manager saying our customer service numbers were low and to get associates in. I'd end up calling the same people and telling them to come in. It was insane.

Cons

Long hours, too high of expectations, lack of consistency. Corporate executives who think things are rosy. Get out of your office and work in an actual store for a week. Don't fall for the crap you see during a store walk, even the surprise walks we all knew were coming. Come to a store during a normal week, when we haven't called in every person on their day off so it would look like we had associates everywhere. During a normal day a manager can't walk to the floor, because they know they will be pounced on by 20 customers who just complain because they've been there for an hour and not a single person has walked by to see if they needed anything. You want store coverage, but you tell us to cut hours. You can't have both. Get real. Get a clue. Come see for yourself.

4.0

Jan 8, 2009

Great place to work

Sales associate

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Some of the best reasons to work for Home Depot is that they are very flexible with your schedule. They allow a great range of shifts to people that are just looking for part time work while their children are at school to other people wanting extra income that work 40 hours a week.

Cons

Some downsides to working at Home Depot are not enough associates on the floor at times.

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