The grass is very green over here at Graybar. - Senior Outside Sales Representative Graybar Employee Review

4.0
Oct 25, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Long term company with a long term view, extremely secure, great benefit package, one of the best retirement packages in the industry, fair pay, great corporate structure, enough local autonomy to feel like its own culture while still adopting the larger culture. Most importantly- they are employee owned and have been for 90 years. no buying selling or trading us off, we own this, we are our owners.

Cons

The pay at our competitors is better on average but total compensation meets the competition, we have a large corporation so the usual challenges there, and its a tough job to train on since theres a myriad of info and modules are great for internal processes but not for the daily rigors of ordering material, though branch level systems help compensate for that. Growth is a bit slow for the career path, but that's only because its such a great company people rarely leave.

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5.0
Dec 2, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

good people and wonderful training experience

Cons

No cons so far i love it here

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Graybar Response
6mo
Thank you for taking the time to share this feedback. We’re thrilled to hear you’re enjoying the training experience and the team environment. We appreciate you being part of Graybar and are glad to know things are off to a great start. If you’d like to share any additional feedback, please reach out to your local HR team.
3.0
Apr 6, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Many opportunities to learn about distribution and management. Pto is three weeks per year plus holidays and over a s Week of sick time. If you work here longer, you can buy enough company shares to receive a sizeable dividend each year. You are allowed to buy about 5% of your salary in company shares per year and then receive usually 20% of that back per year. The profit sharing plan contributes 10% of your salary to your 401k account but you need to be vested to keep it all.

Cons

You will need a second job to live. Sales reps make way more and do half the work but they report to their managers much more. If you are a CSR, sales people feel entitled to treat you however they want and their manager will back them up. You are watched by coworkers and management like a high surveillance prison especially when you're new but they will leave you alone if you're good at your job after a year or so. Graybar brags about how much revenue and profit they make but middle and upper management suck it all up leaving scraps for the workers who made it for them.

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