Unusual pay structure and delayed compensation - Outside Sales Representative Graybar Employee Review

3.0
13 Sept 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Employee owned, stock options, generous profit sharing. Managers are nice and easily approached.

Cons

In order to qualify for profit sharing, need to be at the company an entire CALENDAR year. Yearly raise eliminated for outside sales, and NOT grandfathered for existing employees. Bonus awarded yearly, not monthly or quarterly. Years back the pension was eliminated. No formal in-person training program for key processes. Almost all via pre-recorded videos. Low budget facilities, dirty warehouse, some employees take advantage of lack of oversight.

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We appreciate you taking the time to share your experience. We're glad to hear that you value our employee ownership program and find our managers approachable. Your feedback is important to us, and we are committed to continuous improvement. If you’d like to share more about your experience, we encourage you to connect with our HR team.

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5.0
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Pros

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Cons

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3.0
6 Apr 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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