Does Walmart pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Walmart employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.3 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Walmart. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Walmart?

55% of Walmart employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Walmart 3.1 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.1 for culture and values and 3.3 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Walmart?

Cashier (13622) , Sales Associate (7750) , Overnight Stocker (4397) , Sales Associate/Cashier (3825) , Stocker (3193) , Associate (2873) , Assistant Manager (2046) , Department Manager (1955) , Front End Cashier (1879) , Customer Service Representative (1736) , Personal Shopper (1671) , Personal Shopper/OGP (1405) , Team Lead (1236) , Manager (1176) , Pharmacy Technician (1176)

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

"EASY WORK! It’s very simple to learn and be very good at Pay WAS good for what the job is" ((in 12750 reviews)); "Good benefits once you have been there long enough to be eligible and the profit sharing is also good" ((in 6927 reviews)); "Great for people who can work crazy hours and don't like to go to church on Sunday." ((in 5594 reviews)); "Coworkers are great and the job is really easy when you get the hang of it." ((in 3695 reviews)); "flexible hours gives you time to go to doctor and other places you might need to go" ((in 3679 reviews))

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

"Poor management: some of the managers were rude and did not care about their workers." ((in 12005 reviews)); "No work life balance expected to talk to customers even though the job will say you will do chats and emails" ((in 1927 reviews)); "Management is just trash too much favoritism and the hr doesn’t do nothing when you complain." ((in 1389 reviews)); "They were promoted from within with no training or direction on how to manage staff." ((in 1201 reviews)); "Poor upper management and impersonal" ((in 1188 reviews))

What are employees saying about Walmart layoffs in 2026?

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

Walmart reviews

3.4

55% would recommend to a friend

(142,221 total reviews)

John Furner

58% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.6

Diversity & inclusion

3.3

Compensation and benefits

3.3

Career opportunities

3.1

Culture & values

3.1

Work/Life balance

2.9

Senior management

Walmart has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 142,221 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Walmart 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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142K reviews

3.0

May 27, 2013

Huge potential mired in bureaucracy and disorder

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The largest retailer in the world. Huge opportunity to capture greater share of eCommerce. Lots of really smart people. Real work/life balance. Recent changes in compensation make company competitive in Silicon Valley Real interest in Diversity (women, lgbt, cultural) Neil Ashe has great ideas and is inspiring.

Cons

Teams can be very territorial and tribal Engineering trying to run agile with the resources for waterfall. Lack of clear guidance on direction in technology orgs. Enough resources to keep up but not innovate

1.0

Apr 29, 2013

It was good until 2011

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Culture until 2011 was really great! There were more openess in terms of business and good real freedom for employees to express concerns. The bonus structure was really good. Work life balance was good. All of the above are only until the shift that happened in 2011.

Cons

Now the new management is trying to mix and bring in sub standard employees whom they worked in the past with double/multi fold promotions. This started spoiling the great culture we had. Politics started then. New management is not good at organizing or making progress in business. Current CTO and the new initiative VPs are not upto business growths. They seem to have lot of commercial element in what they do at work. Providing false agenda and manipulating the growth to their upper management in multi folds.

1.0

Feb 27, 2013

Do not work here unless you are a desperate COBOL or mainframe programmer.

Senior programmer/analyst

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

-You get paid every two weeks. -You get to walk around like somebody special telling everyone you work for a massive global company. -You get the chance to volunteer for non profits and Walmart pays them for your work. God knows they treat some random charity better than the employees. -You get to call yourself a "management employee" which allows you to talk down to lowly hourly employees whenever you are feeling used. -You get two weeks vacation per year. Even though you worked an extra 4 months this year, that two weeks still feels nice. -After 90 days, you get an employee discount card that saves you 10% on a bunch of items you never would buy such as camping stoves, sewing supplies and lettuce.

Cons

-Management lies to potential employees about the technology they will be using. -You will be introduced to and forced to learn 40 year old technology. -The bathrooms in David Glass Technology Center are horrific. They have about 50 stalls always full of defecating employees with NO VENTILATION! You have to have the lung capacity of Michael Phelps to use the urinal. -The benefits, which are already HORRIBLE, get cut every year as the prices go up 40+%, but remember, you get to work for Walmart. -Lots of hours. Be expected to put in 45-60 hours a week with NO compensation other than the privilege of working for Walmart. -Working in a massive two-story building with NO WINDOWS. -You pay more for a Sam's card than if you walked in off the street. Avoid the "benefits" if you do decide you are desperate enough to work here.

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Huge potential mired in bureaucracy and disorder

It was good until 2011

Do not work here unless you are a desperate COBOL or mainframe programmer.

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