H&R Block reviews about "pay"

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5.0
Oct 28, 2024
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Pros

• Opportunities to lead and manage multiple locations, which keeps the work challenging, dynamic, and interesting. • Strong support network from district leaders and corporate teams. They provide clear training and resources to help meet goals. • If you like helping people, this job is rewarding—clients truly appreciate getting their taxes right. • Flexible work-life balance. Any downtime is a nice perk considering the busy months. • Decent pay for the season, and bonuses are achievable if you meet targets.

Cons

• The job is heavily seasonal. Once tax season ends, there's little to no work, so it can feel unstable. • Long hours during peak season (January-April), often working nights and weekends, which can be tough if you have family commitments. • High-pressure environment to hit targets. Some locations struggle with staffing issues, making it even more challenging. • Limited opportunities for career growth beyond the seasonal role unless you relocate or take on a hard to get corporate role. • Sometimes feels like upper management is out of touch with the reality on the ground. They push aggressive goals without fully considering individual store circumstances.

1.0
Oct 30, 2024
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The pay and most of the people I worked with were good folks.

Cons

Toxic micromanaging work environment. The older tax pros warned me that upper management has a habit of running seasonal managers off and burning them out. I was optimistic at first but then that quickly became my reality. Everyone is either a you know what kisser or a micromanager. A lot of back biting and total wreck of the use of chain of command. If you take this position you are a glorified mascot and snitch. And if you don't play their game they will sabotage. Thee worst work experience of my life and that's saying a lot!!

5.0
Nov 29, 2024

Good Company

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Pros

You can advance as far as you want to go. You can choose the hours and days you want to work. If you want to work virtual you can do that as well.

Cons

Pay not the greatest. They pay more if you advance to higher level, but not what I feel you deserve. They seem to want to run everything from the home office just by looking at numbers.

3.0
Nov 8, 2024

Great Place to Work

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Pros

In simple terms, the quality of your input directly correlates to the quality of your output. The company is highly open to creativity and encourages it to generate business.

Cons

The pay wasn’t great, and it’s not a full-time job. Once tax season ends, you’ll need to figure out your finances.

4.0
Nov 24, 2024
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Pros

I learned tons at H&R Block. The Leads and Seniors are very intelligent, super helpful, and the teams are reasonably sized with mostly reasonable workloads.

Cons

They will let you work exactly as much as you want to work, to the point where it becomes detrimental. Some people are working way more than 50 hours a week, and management won't hire enough to prevent the leads and Seniors from feeling like they have to put in that many hours. Pay is just barely acceptable.

3.0
Nov 30, 2024
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Pros

Good experience to have if you like tax

Cons

the Pay minimum wage to everyone

3.0
Nov 15, 2024

Seasonal work

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Pros

Good seasonal work for extra money

Cons

The pay is not good

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