Does Lockheed Martin pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Lockheed Martin employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.9 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Lockheed Martin. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Lockheed Martin?

83% of Lockheed Martin employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Lockheed Martin 4.2 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.8 for culture and values and 4.1 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Lockheed Martin?

Software Engineer (900) , Systems Engineer (678) , Senior Software Engineer (291) , Engineer (246) , Intern (188) , Senior Systems Engineer (187) , Financial Analyst (177) , Mechanical Engineer (166) , Manufacturing Engineer (134) , Program Manager (112) , Project Manager (111) , Associate Software Engineer (110) , Subcontract Administrator (103) , Quality Engineer (94) , Project Engineer (89)

What are the pros of working at Lockheed Martin according to real employee reviews?

"Good Benefits and a full catalog of potential tech careers can be had working for them." ((in 1579 reviews)); "Good pay; and you get to work around some amazing machinery that will fight wars and save lives." ((in 1126 reviews)); "Great work life balance while feeling satisfied and fulfilled by the work I am performing." ((in 1016 reviews)); "People are fair to work with a few bad apples but other than that most people are great." ((in 921 reviews)); "Very flexible and the culture is great." ((in 328 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Lockheed Martin according to real employee reviews?

"Poor management and hard to get things accomplished" ((in 590 reviews)); "Some managers have absolutely zero clue how anything actually gets done and are poor leaders."" ((in 289 reviews)); "Senior leadership had a very difficult time articulating that overall strategy and direction for the division." ((in 160 reviews)); "Literal no training and you are told to train yourself in outside programs you have to pay for." ((in 143 reviews)); "The upper management is horrible" ((in 136 reviews))

What are employees saying about Lockheed Martin layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Lockheed Martin layoffs and their outlook for job security at Lockheed Martin in 2026.

What are the top reviewed Lockheed Martin locations?

Buenos Aires , Córdoba , Mar del Plata , Lomas de Zamora , Zárate , Villa Carlos Paz , San Luis , San Miguel de Tucumán

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Lockheed Martin reviews

4.1

83% would recommend to a friend

(14,537 total reviews)

James D. Taiclet

82% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.2

Work/Life balance

4.1

Career opportunities

4.0

Diversity & inclusion

3.9

Compensation and benefits

3.8

Culture & values

3.5

Senior management

Lockheed Martin has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 14,537 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Lockheed Martin employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aeroespacial y defensa industry (3.6 stars).

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Reviews by job title

15K reviews

3.0

Aug 12, 2019

Gov't contracting is not the best envirenment for productive SW development.

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Flex hours Easy work Never run out of things to do

Cons

Can get boring quick Once you stop learning their way of doing things you stop learning and become stagnant Not a great place to work for more that 3 years. Use 20+ year old out dated technologies simply for the fact of being lazy/not having contract money. Non rewarding work. Poorly managed and contract work can just get pulled out from under you, it happens quite often. Working on something for months then you have to full stop on it because there is no money. Then months later you need to ramp back up on it finish it out in an unreasonable time frame.

3.0

Aug 10, 2019

Better if finance would get their accounting system together and get out of the program's way.

Contracts negotiator staff

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Get to work with some truely gifted professionals doing great work supporting the war-fighter. Good pay, benefits and opportunity to advance.

Cons

Company had guaranteed tasker orders for duration of multi-year contract, but senior management only seemed concerned with fee/profit. Contracts staff generally viewed as the root cause of problems they have no control over and constantly being begrudged. Work massive amount of uncompensated overtime waiting on others (like herding cats), rewriting documents for others and asking USG for schedule relief/forgiveness for stupid programic or cost-control mistakes. Finance seems to drive the boat on everything. Accountants should just focus on counting and get out of the way of the program. I received very good performance appraisals, but finally had to leave due to the constant negativity coming down from Sr Mgt and what the stress was doing to my health.

3.0

Jul 31, 2019

Proposal Analyst

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

9x80 work schedule provides 20+ Friday’s off a year. Pay is a little better than smaller defense contractors. Large corporation with lots of job opportunities. 401k is good.

Cons

Health insurance is the worst I have had. Family of 5 cost me $10,000+ out of pocket last year. Yearly pay raises avg 2%. Can take a long time to increase your salary so you have to change jobs often if you want to increase your salary

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