Is Clean Harbors a good company to work for?

Clean Harbors has an overall rating of 3.2 out of 5, based on over 2,154 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 (24) , 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 125 reviews)); "Good Benefits and ability to advance" ((in 114 reviews)); "great people and they have supervisor that care about there employers" ((in 110 reviews)); "Hires kids out of school without experience and gives good training." ((in 51 reviews)); "Good safety hours and coworkers" ((in 29 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 58 reviews)); "Hard to get a raise" ((in 41 reviews)); "No work/life balance" ((in 36 reviews)); "Too many managers, bucket just keeps getting passed with no one making change to issues that arise." ((in 24 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

Clean Harbors reviews

3.2

52% would recommend to a friend

(2,041 total reviews)

Michael L. Battles and Eric W. Gerstenberg

55% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

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Clean Harbors has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 2,041 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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2.0

May 29, 2015

People are great...leadership can

Anonymous employee

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Pros

My peers are great and care a lot about doing their best. My direct manager acknowledges that things above him is a significant work in progress.

Cons

The people creating the strategy at the company demonstrate zero interest in their employees. I am sure they feel great about employing 13,000+ people but when they don't give raises for multiple years running, have a terrible benefit package, and continue to over complicate every process employees need to do their jobs it demonstrates the priority is not the employee. Words are a lot different then actions. The company is also going to have a big problem when the old guard and all their intellectual knowledge leaves and everyone left has no documentation and idea how business is done.

1.0

Feb 14, 2015

This has to be the worst company I have ever worked for in my 20 years of driving.

Heavy driver

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CEO approval

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Pros

None, none, none, none, none

Cons

Constant payroll issues, bad equipment,unorganized

2.0

Feb 13, 2015

Company w/ tremendous potential hobbled by bloated bureaucracy, finger-pointing middle management unable to execute.

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

Ability for an entry-level person to learn a tremendous amount technically and have exposure to a wide variety of industries and practices. Very challenging work environments posed by outside influences (customers, weather, regulatory agencies) can lead to tremendously close friendships with your coworkers. Opportunity to network in other organizations if you desire.

Cons

Frightening safety vs. profits doublethink. Everyone from the top down will, (sincerely, very often) talk about how safety is priority #1 but will silently encourage squeezing every last drop of blood from the stone. Various parts of management play games to finesse EBITDA figures, leading to junkyard, noncompliant facilities and the financial left hand not knowing what the right is doing. Glengarry Glen Ross sales climate results. The fecal material rolling down hill has no rolling resistance whatsoever in this company, there is a basic failure to lead in middle management, especially. Promotions can be hard to come by and seem arbitrary, compensation and employee development are well behind the curve/industry standard and are low-priority. Example: during the post-Deepwater Horizon period, an event which profited Clean Harbors ~70million dollars per quarter (publicly available estimate, see http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2010/06/18/174703/bp-contractor-army/ )immediately after the disaster, CHES was able to emplace employees numbering in the thousands to help clean up-in months. CHES was still working on reviewing its pay scales after a years-long study/delay.

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This has to be the worst company I have ever worked for in my 20 years of driving.

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