Does 3M pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, 3M employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.9 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at 3M. This rating has decreased by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at 3M?

68% of 3M employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated 3M 3.7 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.6 for culture and values and 3.3 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at 3M?

Sales Representative (139) , Estagiário (122) , Engineer (96) , Manager (96) , Supply Chain Analyst (95) , Machine Operator (74) , Customer Service Representative (66) , Production Operator (66) , Intern (65) , Technical Aide (65) , Marketing (60) , Software Engineer (58) , Sales (57) , Manufacturing Engineer (53) , Analyst (49)

What are the pros of working at 3M according to real employee reviews?

"The benefits are changing and while not as good as they once were they are still not bad." ((in 623 reviews)); "The people are great and supportive" ((in 438 reviews)); "The pay is good and the work great." ((in 428 reviews)); "They have a lot focused groups and activities which shows how inclusive and great their culture are" ((in 307 reviews)); "Good work life balance.Reputed brand and respected company" ((in 231 reviews))

What are the cons of working at 3M according to real employee reviews?

"Poor management waiting for redundancies" ((in 255 reviews)); "There are frequent layoffs and all employees live in fear of the next round." ((in 105 reviews)); "So i paid for that when we had the bad managers." ((in 81 reviews)); "Poor leadership; resting on old innovation laurels; unfavorable workplace if coming from another company" ((in 67 reviews)); "No work life balance and poor upper management" ((in 61 reviews))

What are employees saying about 3M layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about 3M layoffs and their outlook for job security at 3M in 2026.

What are the top reviewed 3M locations?

Neuß , Hilden , Seefeld , Wiesbaden , Wuppertal , Dormagen , Düsseldorf , Kamen , Köln , Burgkirchen an der Alz

3M reviews

3.7

68% would recommend to a friend

(5,850 total reviews)

William M. Brown

51% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.9

Diversity & inclusion

3.9

Compensation and benefits

3.7

Work/Life balance

3.6

Culture & values

3.3

Career opportunities

3.0

Senior management

3M has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 5,850 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The 3M employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Produktion industry (3.5 stars).

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6K reviews

1.0

Feb 19, 2014

The 3M corporate structure is in desperate need of intelligent managers with a sound work ethic.

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The company has a good income stream due to post-it notes and scotch tape.

Cons

Executive management is utterly clueless.

3.0

Apr 26, 2013

When will the leaders learn to operate the company without extraordinary measures?

Laboratory management

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The people are the best in the world. We continue to be a great company, not because of company loyalty, but because of personal commitments to great coworkers.

Cons

While delivering strong results to Wall Street, 3M is only able to achieve them by complete travel bans, hiring freezes and 2% salary increases. Executives continue to keep the company jets in the air, and when they have to fly commercial, always sit in first class. Their income keeps increasing, especially as they execute multimillion dollar stock options. They stay cloistered on their mahogany floors and don't see that the rest of the physical plant has deteriorated as the maintenance budgets are squeezed like everything else.

1.0

Feb 15, 2012

Worse place in America to work!

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

They HAD good benefits Flex time work from home

Cons

Environment ol' "Boys club" mentality Archaic processes They promote incompetence employees are not valued Management threatens employees

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