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?

69% 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 (5820) , Cashier (4089) , Customer Service Representative (1398) , Department Supervisor (1258) , Sales Associate/Cashier (1091) , Freight Team Associate (1063) , 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 3784 reviews)); "The people you work with are great and very friendly willing to help each other." ((in 3129 reviews)); "All my coworkers are great and the head cashiers always push me to do my best every day." ((in 1676 reviews)); "Flexible hours and some really nice staff but there really is not much more that i can say that made my time there enjoyable" ((in 1474 reviews)); "Great corporate company and culture (truly lives by the "value wheel" shown on all store" ((in 978 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 3514 reviews)); "they pay is low and they are do not care about their employees childcare hours when scheduling" ((in 3298 reviews)); "bad manager and mangement need to be ppl oriented and worked towards employees" ((in 1440 reviews)); "So much favoritism and brown nosing" ((in 695 reviews)); "There is no work/life balance and the rumors of being a sweat shop are true." ((in 619 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.

The Home Depot reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(55,752 total reviews)

Ted Decker

66% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

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The Home Depot has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 55,752 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).

Reviews by job title

56K reviews

2.0

Sep 10, 2008

typical corporate moronitude

Sales associate

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

There are opportunities to learn about all sorts of different areas of home improvement. The pay is decent compared to other retail jobs, and the customer base isn't all that obnoxious. Changing departments within a store helps keep the job interesting. The benefits are decent.

Cons

The people running the company are clearly idiots and that trickles down, inevitably. Your managers, and their bosses, are more likely to be "yes men" than competent, creative, etc. There is not genuine respect for the people at the bottom of the pay scale, who are the vast majority of the people working for the company.

4.0

Sep 9, 2008

Good Job Bad Management

Sales specialist

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

I enjoy working at The Home Depot because in general most of the customers you encounter are grateful for your assistance in just about every department you can be in. As a specialist the designs that I do are unique enough to be interesting which really helps break up the day in day out of this job.

Cons

The worst thing about The Home Depot is the atmosphere of low morale. In my opinion this stems from the reluctance of most managers to make a solid decision and communicate this to the employees. It seems to me most of the middle management (ASM and SM) are so worried about giving the okay to something that could prove to be "wrong" that they would rather pass the buck. Not being in middle management I am not sure what pressures the upper managers (DM) put them under but it seems to be a great deal more than needs to be put on them.

3.0

Sep 8, 2008

Good place to work when you have competent managers with realistic goals.....

Sales associate

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

Good health benefits and 401k for part timers and sufficient vacation and sick time. Full timers get more vacation and sick time.

Cons

To many chiefs and not enough indians and not enough tasks are completed.

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