Graybar reviews

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

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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1.0
Dec 22, 2023

Slave Labor

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

great experience and learned how to work really hard

Cons

Terrible pay. I worked 70 hour weeks for 3 years before I could not do it any more. Biggest W-2 was $44K

1.0
Nov 2, 2023

Layoff

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

None at all- that how bad it was

Cons

Favoritism, poor management, horrible work environment, poor mannered coworkers & to top it off 4 of us were laid off early October.

3.0
Jul 21, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Graybar offers a solid 8-5 job, with really good benefits such as stock purchasing/payouts as well as 401(k) match and profit sharing bonus.

Cons

Graybar doesn’t do enough to reward employees on an individual level, unless you want to count being handed more work and responsibility. As Graybar has increased their overall salary schedules each of the last two years, individual annual merit raises have pretty much been capped off to coincide with those (Ex. Graybar increased salaries by 3% in 22’, my merit raise was 3.63% that year so really only .63%) so doing a good job over the course of the year wasn’t really getting you any individual reward over the next person. Just more work and stress to go with it. Your Graybar experience will also vary based on the size of the branch that you work in. If you work in a small branch like me, you’ll be asked to wear a bunch of different hats and do a bunch of extra work that really shouldn’t apply to your job but because your branch is so understaffed you have to step in and just do it (help walk in at the counter, run to the back to receive shipments, etc.). This is again, more stuff that is added to your plate that Graybar doesn’t see a need to really reward you for.

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