Would rate higher if pay was better - Project Specialist Graybar Employee Review

3.0
Mar 22, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Great benefits as well as long term growth for future retirement

Cons

Unfair pay structure and management is super old fashioned and out of touch

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Graybar Response
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Thank you for highlighting the long-term benefits of working at Graybar—we’re proud of the financial security offered through our employee ownership model and retirement programs. We also hear your concerns about compensation and leadership style. We’re actively evaluating both to ensure we’re keeping pace with modern workplace expectations. Please email any additional feedback to reviewfeedback@graybar.com.

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Cons

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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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