Drybar reviews

3.1

40% would recommend to a friend

(1,087 total reviews)

Amanda Clark

26% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

Drybar has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,087 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Drybar employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Personal Consumer Services industry (3.3 stars).

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1K reviews
1.0
Sep 10, 2025

Don't bother.

Recommend
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Pros

The customers are lovely and you do a lot of wedding/formal occasion hair, and the non-admin employees are all great to qork with.

Cons

Oh god. Where to start....because I'm an experienced stylist, I got exactly 1.5 days of training of the week we were promised. The owner sold the position to me as a high-paying, drama-free position, but I make $12/hr plus maybe $5/appointment, so I make around $18-20/hr, and the only benefits we get is one free blowout a week, but itust take place durong the first half of the week...i was deliberately acheduled so I work all weekends and have off durong those days....I do mot recieve any benefits at all......no insirance, nothing. And on top of that, the owner IS THE DRAMA. She's not a stylist so she has no idea what state board's requirements are, and she keeps enforcing her own aesthetic preferences over corporate policy. I used to think it wasn't on purpose, but lately I'm positive she's being intentionally discriminatory. There's zero flexibility with hours for anyone except the manager, who takes hours off here and there when it benefits them, and the owner hires the bare minimum stylists to cover the hours needed, and cuts corners on EVERYTHING just to make an extra dollar or two. I frequently end up being the only stylist on shift on busy days. I had massively high hopes for this job and they got squashed within my first day.

1.0
Feb 2, 2025

SAVE YOURSELF.

Recommend
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Pros

A FEW cool coworkers..that’s all. A FEW cool clients.

Cons

Overworked and beyond UNDERPAID Constant overbooking Horrible management Next to nothing sick or vacation pay Tips get taxed No matter the hair texture, length or thickness they want blow outs done in 45 minutes flat. Overstimulating environment Rude clients Stylists get in trouble for things out of their control. The list goes ON.

1.0
Jan 22, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Most of The stylists are nice. There is a guy there that is a mean girl. He’s the golden boy so the owner doesn’t see it.

Cons

Horrible base pay. Cameras & microphones everywhere including break room. Not telling your employees that you have cameras & microphones in their break room. Owner telling Bartenders not to run the clients credit card for tips because it costs them money. Owner is cheap and is not ordering products to sell and lying and saying they are on back order. So we cannot make commission. Owner does not know how to run her business. Constant favoritism to people who kiss her butt. Checks are always wrong for everyone in salon. Overbooking so you cannot even take a bathroom break. Regular employees start at $9 an hour and they lie and tell you with your tips you make a minimum of $25-$40 an hour which is BS. No matter how much you work it’s never more than $15 with tips included.they also only pay their leads $11. There are no benefits and no days off. You are worked to the bone. If you miss more than 10 days in a year including vacation you are fired. They literally make you work while you are sick or they lose money. Thry do not let you have printouts of your daily sales & tips therefore they can take them away without you knowing. Newer Bartenders giving other people your tip’s because they are not paying attention. They keep your cosmetology licenses locked up so you do not have access, which is against the law. You do not make enough so you normally have to work two hair jobs and they tell you that you have to get a duplicate license. They make you work on people with open wounds on their heads. They are in violation of so many state board regulations. They let some of the stylists do blowouts whichever way they want and they never get in trouble but they are OCD with everyone else.

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