Is Clean Harbors a good company to work for?

Clean Harbors has an overall rating of 3.2 out of 5, based on over 2,151 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has decreased by 2% over the last 12 months. 52% of employees would recommend working at Clean Harbors to a friend and 50% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Clean Harbors have been left by employees working as Branch Manager , Class A Truck Driver and Account Manager .

Does Clean Harbors pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Clean Harbors employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.2 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Clean Harbors. This rating has improved by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Clean Harbors?

52% of Clean Harbors employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Clean Harbors 3.0 out of 5 for work life balance, 2.9 for culture and values and 3.2 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Clean Harbors?

Chemist (40) , Project Manager (38) , Class A Truck Driver (33) , Technician (33) , Account Manager (31) , Truck Driver (29) , Driver (27) , Insite Chemist (27) , Environmental Technician (24) , Manager (23) , Supervisor (23) , Branch Manager (18) , Customer Service Representative (18) , Field Technician (17) , Program Manager (17)

What are the pros of working at Clean Harbors according to real employee reviews?

"The pay was good and not bad" ((in 136 reviews)); "Good benefits and safety measures" ((in 111 reviews)); "great people and they have supervisor that care about there employers" ((in 109 reviews)); "Hires kids out of school without experience and gives good training." ((in 46 reviews)); "Plenty of work and good coworkers" ((in 28 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Clean Harbors according to real employee reviews?

"Some of the jobs are very demanding and require long hours and out of town work." ((in 66 reviews)); "Upper management does not appreciate nor understand the work that is done." ((in 61 reviews)); "Hard to get a raise" ((in 44 reviews)); "No work/life balance" ((in 42 reviews)); "manager, which ends up rolling down hill, so all the other managers are also micro" ((in 25 reviews))

What are employees saying about Clean Harbors layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Clean Harbors layoffs and their outlook for job security at Clean Harbors in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Clean Harbors locations?

Norwell , Richardson , Boston , Houston , Los Angeles , Deer Park , La Porte , Dallas , Cincinnati , Cleveland , San Jose , Kent , El Dorado , Denver , Braintree , Aragonite , Dolton , Phoenix , Salt Lake City , Chicago , San Diego , Benicia , Seattle , Baton Rouge , Weymouth , New York , Reidsville , Atlanta , Tooele , Chandler

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Clean Harbors reviews

3.2

52% would recommend to a friend

(2,038 total reviews)

Michael L. Battles and Eric W. Gerstenberg

55% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.3

Diversity & inclusion

3.2

Compensation and benefits

3.2

Career opportunities

3.0

Work/Life balance

2.9

Culture & values

2.7

Senior management

Clean Harbors has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 2,038 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Clean Harbors employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transportation & Logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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Reviews by job title

2K reviews

2.0

Sep 30, 2025

Poor Management

Mechanic apprentice

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Stable income, some trainings, and good experience

Cons

Manager don't appreciate what you have done Long hours Lack of instruction

2.0

Sep 26, 2025

Fun and Challenging Work but Terrible Management

Senior product owner

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The work was fulfilling and colleagues were great. You get close with colleagues complaining about horrible leadership. Pay is decent.

Cons

In IT, you effectively report to "leaders" that are offshore in India. These "leaders" have a terrible ego and go out of their way to critique and criticize every action for employees that are onshore. Most likely this is due to jealousy of being unable to be in person for executive meetings. Their goal is to burn you out so you leave and they replace you with cheaper offshore talent or to have such unreasonable expectations of you they can claim you aren't meeting expectations to get rid of you that way as well. IT executives don't care about this because all of the offshore leaders are Yes men that tell them whatever they want to hear and then take it out on everyone below them. The company doesn't care about Production Support and just pressures you to meet dates for strategic projects but the dates were pulled out of thin air and no logic was used to determine the date. This is pushed and pushed to meet these dates at the expense of all of the business users who are forced to use outdated applications with years and years worth of production issues because delivering a product with 10 bugs just to meet a fake date is more important than postponing to deliver a quality product.

3.0

Sep 19, 2025

Good and bad

Technician

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Good jobs different people faily

Cons

Long hours and minimal support

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