Does Target pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Target employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.3 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Target. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Target?

57% of Target employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Target 3.3 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.3 for culture and values and 3.1 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Target?

Cashier (6560) , Sales Associate (3575) , Sales Floor Team Member (2262) , Sales Associate/Cashier (2091) , Guest Advocate (1932) , Team Leader (1378) , Style Consultant (1356) , Executive Team Leader (1343) , Barista (1318) , General Merchandise Expert (1223) , Fulfillment Associate (1028) , Fulfillment Expert (938) , Team Member (873) , Retail Sales Associate (832) , Warehouse Worker (747)

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

"Good pay but not worth the time and energy you must put in to get the job done" ((in 9400 reviews)); "The people are great and genuinely want to see you grow and suceed in your career at Target." ((in 4687 reviews)); "Benefits are good; you can elect benefits for self and family if you average 32 hours per week; part" ((in 3866 reviews)); "I stayed because coworkers were lovely and they were great about working around my classes." ((in 3740 reviews)); "Flexible hours and worked in eco sales so I spent the day picking products off shelves" ((in 3282 reviews))

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

"You also have to deal with people who don't pull their own weight and poor management." ((in 6759 reviews)); "Target went through a string of bad managers while I worked there but those two were the worst." ((in 2087 reviews)); "Also plan on working constantly because everything is a priority and there's no work life balance." ((in 1994 reviews)); "Marketing not a respected or invested in department with no training or development and limited to no advancement" ((in 911 reviews)); "So much favoritism happening around the managers and they screw up the careers of employees for their benefits." ((in 816 reviews))

What are employees saying about Target layoffs in 2026?

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

Target reviews

3.5

57% would recommend to a friend

(94,118 total reviews)

Michael Fiddelke

47% approve of CEO

40% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

3.7

Diversity & inclusion

3.3

Culture & values

3.3

Work/Life balance

3.3

Compensation and benefits

3.1

Career opportunities

2.9

Senior management

Target has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 94,118 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Target employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Ventas al mayoreo y al menudeo industry (3.5 stars).

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94K reviews

5.0

Aug 16, 2019

Corporate Has Modern, Laid-Back Tech Culture

Engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The managers/directors really work hard to encourage modern tech culture of self-managed teams, fail-fast, engineers-make-the-engineering-decisions kind of organization. Most of the people I worked with were very transparent and genuine and encouraged you to speak your mind; not a lot of red tape or petty politics. Really invest in their engineers: 50 days a year to be used on whatever career development learning you want do. Even when they,ve had massive outages/bugs in production, I've never seen anyone blamed or fired for an well-intentioned mistake discovered in a post-mortem.

Cons

Still an old company with some legacy artifacts. A few backend business functions still rely on IBM Mainframe, VB, SOAP requests etc. Only every now and then did I hear crap like "but we've done it this way for 10 years".

1.0

Aug 5, 2019

Don't judge a book by its cover, not cracked up to be

Senior administrative assistant

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Higher pay Organized company Impressive at first glance

Cons

*Work on most holidays *Benefits kick in after 90 days *Two weeks starting vacation *No bonuses for non-exempt *Admins are not seen as part of the overall group, thus being non-exempt and not included in bonuses. *Management has you sit in a lot of unnecessary meetings, where you could be more productive elsewhere. *Set up to fail

1.0

Jul 23, 2019

They pay you just enough to be insulted, and work you almost to the point of exhaustion.

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Coworkers were very nice and some of the management was nice. There are no uniforms really and you can have your cellphone on the floor. You also get to set your own breaks.

Cons

Little training, they overload team members with work everyday and management makes you feel incompetent if you can’t complete the impossible amount of work assigned. They say you get 3 breaks during an 8 hour shift but they pile so much daily work on you, you can’t take all three breaks or even two breaks most of the time. The store manager is out of touch with what team members are up against and frequently makes their work harder. Target used to care about their team members but ever since they started paying 13.00 they’ve eliminated job titles and just piled on more work for the existing team members. Honestly 13.00 is just not worth being set up for failure EVERY SINGLE DAY.

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Don't judge a book by its cover, not cracked up to be

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