Does Preble Street pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Preble Street employees rate their compensation and benefits as 2.9 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Preble Street. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Preble Street?

42% of Preble Street employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Preble Street 3.0 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.0 for culture and values and 2.8 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Preble Street?

Caseworker (4) , Case Manager (3) , Outreach Specialist (2) , Supervisor (2)

What are the pros of working at Preble Street according to real employee reviews?

"Clients are amazing people." ((in 4 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Preble Street according to real employee reviews?

"Low pay, over worked." ((in 3 reviews)); "Not respected by upper management" ((in 2 reviews))

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Preble Street Reviews

3.2

42% would recommend to a friend

(25 total reviews)

Mark Swann

41% approve of CEO

39% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.0

Culture and values

3.0

Work/Life balance

2.9

Diversity and inclusion

2.9

Compensation and benefits

2.8

Career opportunities

2.4

Senior management

Preble Street has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 25 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Preble Street employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Non-profit and NGO industry (3.7 stars).

Reviews by job title

25 reviews

3.0

18 Apr 2026

Portland Maine Social Work

Supervisor

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

mission driven, folks with good values; good PTO and benefits

Cons

top heavy management; not always good communication from management; poor pay

1.0

16 Feb 2026

Good coworkers, terrible employer

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Pay is not terrible? Benefits are decent. You will work with some wonderful people (unless you work at the office location, in which case, I'm SO sorry.)

Cons

•Woefully mismanaged from top down. •Upper management will make their weird morality plays everyone's problem. Expect to get, for example, emails from Mark Swann about his personal issues with union reps. Fun! •you will have to listen to the people at the agency who do the least interacting with the community it claims to serve being some of the most insufferable, self-righteous people on Earth •while they mistreat and underpay their caseworkers, and really anyone who "isn't bringing in money." The money that the agency only gets because of the work that those employees do.

4.0

11 Nov 2025

Good Mission

Case manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Good teams culture. Good benefits.

Cons

Pay Sometimes bad power dynamic and collaboration between management and people doing the direct work.

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