Good company - Below average compensation - Sales Manager Graybar Employee Review

3.0
26 Nov 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Profit sharing and great benefits. Experienced teams (pro and con)

Cons

Under paying. Sr Management disconnected from reality of pay structure. Long term employees are moving on and the need to attract new talent is being ignored

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Graybar Response
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We appreciate you taking the time to share your experience. We're glad to hear that you found value in our profit-sharing and benefits, which contribute to our efforts to support our employees. Your feedback is important and we would welcome the opportunity to hear more in detail about your experience. If you’d like to share more, please email reviewfeedback@graybar.com.

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5.0
24 Mar 2026
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CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Great leadership at this local branch. Benefits were great. Education was great as well

Cons

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3.0
6 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

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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