Does Lowe's Home Improvement pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Lowe's Home Improvement employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.3 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Lowe's Home Improvement. This rating has decreased by 2% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Lowe's Home Improvement?

61% of Lowe's Home Improvement employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Lowe's Home Improvement 3.3 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.4 for culture and values and 3.3 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Lowe's Home Improvement?

Sales Associate (2541) , Cashier (2204) , Customer Service Associate (1856) , Sales Specialist (1120) , Head Cashier (1081) , Customer Service Representative (968) , Department Manager (929) , CSA - Customer Service Associate (858) , Sales Associate/Cashier (722) , Department Supervisor (677) , Assistant Store Manager (515) , Front End Cashier (500) , ASM- Assistant Store Manager (432) , CSA (391) , Retail Sales Associate (388)

What are the pros of working at Lowe's Home Improvement according to real employee reviews?

"The pay is good and you will make a lot of friends with those at the front end" ((in 4462 reviews)); "The benefits are good and scheduling and we were working towards building relationships in the community" ((in 3376 reviews)); "Great people that work there and are very helpful when learning the job for the first time." ((in 2744 reviews)); "Coworkers are great and will teach you what you need to know for the most part" ((in 1460 reviews)); "Good work environment and the facilities provided by the company are really good" ((in 670 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Lowe's Home Improvement according to real employee reviews?

"Management was poor and had you working 16 hour days on occasions with heavy lifting all night" ((in 3603 reviews)); "Bad manager leads to if youve got time to lean youve got time to clean mentailty" ((in 1394 reviews)); "Long hours and shift times flip flop throughout the week making it difficult to have free time with family." ((in 1127 reviews)); "The management is usually pretty bad and there is basically no training for the job position." ((in 851 reviews)); "No work/life balance for senior managers (worked no less than 50 hours a week but paid for 40)" ((in 843 reviews))

What are employees saying about Lowe's Home Improvement layoffs in 2026?

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

Lowe's Home Improvement reviews

3.5

61% would recommend to a friend

(47,862 total reviews)

Marvin Ellison

67% approve of CEO

56% positive business outlook

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Lowe's Home Improvement has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 47,862 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lowe's Home Improvement 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

48K reviews

2.0

Jun 21, 2018

Not worth for Long Term if you are Technically Strong.

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

1) if you want to get settled and have a good work life balance - you can start working here as you won't have much work to do. 2) Free Food, cab available and good benefits.

Cons

The company is formed as cost cutting from US to India. Benefits are reducing as the company continues to cut down cost. Annual Increment reducing to Single Digits. 1) No quality work, the skills set you're hired will be rarely used. 2) Managers' here are mostly from Service company background, too much of micromanagement - work from home restrictions. Manager wants to know why you're leaving early or coming late. Your vacation leaves are entirely on Mangers' discretion. Not unlike the US based culture - 3) Growth is purely on Managers hand - too much of favoritism to know employees. 4) Technical peoples are very less paid and no technical ppl are over paid. 5) The culture is more going as a service based company and rather being a product based company. 6) Rare on site opportunities. 7) You can grow more on other things rather developing yourself as a technical expertise.

Lowe's Home Improvement Response

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2.0

Aug 20, 2017

Worst Management, US puppets. Run as Service based.

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Great food. Lots of leisure time. Nothing else I can think of.

Cons

Office timings are such that you wont be able to maintain a work life balance. Managers are running it at 24/7 service based production support company. They are not ready to listen to employees opinions. Whether married/bachelor/have kids, all are considered same with no flexibility in terms of shift. Although the company has Work From Home policy, managers are too mean to allow people doing it even in worse condition. Managers can do anything they want without thinking anything good about their people. They are given all the power. They force people to agree on what they say. Company uses old technology which is outdated in market. While hiring they make false promises and later cheat like anything. Lowe's being in retail and run by service based by the managers doesn't sound acceptable. Managers just want to become superhero so they introduce new policy (even though it's not required many times) everyday but make employees life hell. They don't give a proper justification. So much politics on HR side as well where they don not follow the right processes and make employees suffer for everything. They make employees suffer a lot even for a small thing. The list is long to write down here.

3.0

Oct 26, 2015

Life at Lowe's

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Can explore and gain knowledge on home improvement retail industry. You get associated with a Brand which is about $56bn.

Cons

Too many frequent changes in organisation at leadership level (onshore as well as offshore). Difficult to understand leadership team's expectations.

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