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      3.4

      51% would recommend to a friend

      (1,261 total reviews)
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      Kathleen M. Mazzarella

      63% approve of CEO

      55% positive business outlook

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      Graybar has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 1,261 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Graybar employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.4 stars).

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      1K reviews
      2.0
      Apr 8, 2019

      Lack of growth

      Inside sales representative
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Benefits, company culture, and stability.

      Cons

      No room for growth at the branch level. Hard for the younger generation coming in to grow without being told to "put in your time". Extremely outdated and old school ways of thinking.

      3.0
      Jan 22, 2019

      With the good there is some bad

      Inside sales representative
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Great work environment, employee owned and profit sharing....(see below) you do get other good benefits though PTO and health care.

      Cons

      (wont see any of those employee owned benefits/profit sharing pay off for YEARS though) also mislead a bit about account packages as well as commission. No way you can make 50-60 in your first year.

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      Graybar Response
      7y
      Thanks for leaving a review. If you are speaking about our sales commission plan, there are actually tiers to the commission rates, and the GM amount you mentioned would actually fall into the highest tier which is far above 3%. We know that these plans can be somewhat complex so we urge you to speak to your Sales Manager or local HR if you need help figuring out how your commission is calculated. Our ownership and profit sharing benefits are long-term benefits meant to help our employees have a healthy retirement, so it does take a little time to really see the benefits of those. However we offer a wide variety of benefits and advantages to our employees to serve them now and in the future.
      4.0
      Oct 25, 2018

      The grass is very green over here at Graybar.

      Senior outside sales representative
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      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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