Does Santa Barbara Botanic Garden pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden employees rate their compensation and benefits as 2.6 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden?

54% of Santa Barbara Botanic Garden employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Santa Barbara Botanic Garden 3.6 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.2 for culture and values and 3.2 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden?

Retail Sales Associate (3) , Technician (2)

What are the pros of working at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden according to real employee reviews?

"A Beautiful place to work" ((in 3 reviews)); "outside, beautiful space, great manager and team" ((in 3 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Santa Barbara Botanic Garden according to real employee reviews?

"Agree about the bad morale you will feel Unappreciated" ((in 3 reviews))

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3.4

54% would recommend to a friend

(16 total reviews)

Steve Windhager

46% approve of CEO

16% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.6

Diversity and inclusion

3.6

Work/Life balance

3.2

Culture and values

3.2

Career opportunities

2.6

Compensation and benefits

2.5

Senior management

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 16 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Non-profit and NGO industry (3.7 stars).

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16 reviews

3.0

30 Dec 2025

Beautiful place to work

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

The location and office space is great. Flexibility with remote work. Supportive team and hard workers.

Cons

Teams had a hard time working cross functionally.

3.0

10 June 2025

Low Morale

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Beautiful place with employees who care about the mission.

Cons

Agree with comments about low morale and directors seeming confused all the time. No one seems to know what theyre doing and everything is last minute and put on lower level staff to clean up. Horrible collaboration between departents and bad use of funds. They keep hiring more people in some departments rather than the ones that need more people. The older staff disrespects younger staff constantly. No growth opportunities either

5.0

1 May 2025

Love this place

Retail associate

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Beautiful environment, everyone I worked with was wonderful and super kind, easy to get along with. General atmosphere is great!

Cons

Sometimes customers could be rude, but that was very rarely.

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Maintenance Associate 2

USD 130K - USD 165K /yr

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