Great work environment and colleagues, but low retention because of poor salaries - Anonymous employee Salem Media Group Employee Review

3.0
Dec 12, 2011
Anonymous employee
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Pros

As a small company, Salem Web Network employees are welcoming and very helpful to each other. Work camaraderie is great, and lunches are flexible to enjoy the great restaurants in the area. If job fulfillment is important to you, you'll probably find it here in their commitment to growing a Christian space online. Work flow is loose, so your time/projects are up to you to manage and there's little red tape.

Cons

SWN is very aware that their work environment is great, and relies on intangible benefits like this to keep employees. Salaries are not competitive, raises must be asked for and take forever to get approved. If you are used to structure and process, this open work flow might frustrate you. As a small company, there's not a lot of room for upward mobility unless you're in sales.

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Cons

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Salem Media Group Response
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Thank you for sharing your experience and kind words about our leadership and mission. We appreciate your honest feedback about staffing and are always working to balance resources to best serve our teams and audiences. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors!
2.0
May 31, 2026
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Pros

Great supportive local environment, people called to work there to support the mission.

Cons

Corporate digital leadership is disjointed and systems are chaotic. Actual delivered campaigns are inevitably flawed and mis managed. Retaliatory, narcisstic, abusive corporate digital leadership. Constant systems changes and zero assistance in navigating. More and more digital agency and other jobs outsourced to Asia. Salespeople are exhausted and burned out by programs failing. Zero accountability taken by Ad Ops team for mistakes or extrene lag time in responses from internal automated systems. Salary cuts to 'help the company' plays on the mission minded employees, taking advantage of employees good intentions by underpaying them compared to industry. No 401K match.

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