Does NIKE pay their employees well?

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

How satisfied are employees working at NIKE?

73% of NIKE employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated NIKE 3.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.9 for culture and values and 3.4 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at NIKE?

Sales Associate (1759) , Athlete (1218) , Retail Sales Associate (534) , Intern (174) , Manager (158) , Sales (151) , Software Engineer (145) , Vendedor (135) , Sales Assistant (133) , Seasonal Athlete (121) , Director (117) , Coach (111) , Part Time Athlete (104) , Project Manager (101) , Vendeur (96)

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

"Benefits are great and very generous" ((in 877 reviews)); "The people are great and are there to work and complete the tasks at hand." ((in 862 reviews)); "Great culture and the motivation is there to have a lot of pride in the work that you are doing." ((in 656 reviews)); "job is very flexible and pay is good" ((in 530 reviews)); "Good work/life balance (as long as you know how to set your own boundaries)" ((in 466 reviews))

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

"Poor coordination among departments; insincere attempts at collaboration; no meaningful changes to poor management" ((in 620 reviews)); "Long hours and lots of uncertain shift changes" ((in 347 reviews)); "bad managers in the site i was at" ((in 343 reviews)); "low salary so painful and far" ((in 174 reviews)); "senior leadership pushes their personal agenda and doesn’t always do the right thing for the consumer" ((in 164 reviews))

What are employees saying about NIKE layoffs in 2026?

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

NIKE reviews

3.9

73% would recommend to a friend

(13,128 total reviews)

Elliott Hill

79% approve of CEO

52% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.1

Diversity & inclusion

3.9

Culture & values

3.9

Compensation and benefits

3.8

Work/Life balance

3.4

Career opportunities

3.3

Senior management

NIKE has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 13,128 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The NIKE employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manifattura industry (3.5 stars).

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Reviews by job title

13K reviews

4.0

Jun 11, 2008

Awesome Summer Experience

Intern

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

This company moves fast! I view this as a positive because it keeps employees very interested. The attitude is certainly work hard, play hard. Thirsty Thursdays in the summer, pickup soccer, awesome workout facilities, great employee discounts, terrific offices, fun peers and an agile attitude helped propel Nike to the top 100 companies to work for in a Businessweek review. Management communication is absolutely top-notch with all-employee meetings.

Cons

You've got to drink the Kool-Aid. You will be literally kicked off campus if you don't wear Nike shoes to work, or (worse yet) you bring a competitors' shoes. Secrecy is big and privacy is huge. You also have to constantly defend Nike against those who still think they use sweatshop labor (they don't).

4.0

Jun 11, 2008

Nike's nice

applications engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The reason's to work at Nike are: retail discounts, sample sales, a resort-like campus with amenities like bank machines, gift shops, dry cleaners, restaurants and state of the art gym facilities. And the occasionally sighting of an Athlete visiting campus.

Cons

Nike spend tens....likely hundreds of millions wooing college athletics across the nation. Focused only on driving its brands deeper into the mind sight of every athletic. Nike feels it's more important to strive for dominance than building a workforce of highly capable professionals.

3.0

Jun 11, 2008

Experience of a lifetime but all good things must come to an end

Analyst

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The name on your resume and the exposure to a world class business. You will do things at Nike that you may have to wait 10+ years to do at other companies. Nike is the best in the world at what they do, who wouldn't want to be part of that. Finally, the company is one big family and most team members are incredibly proud of the work they do.

Cons

First, it is cult like. You eat-sleep-breathe Nike. Second, the culture around employee development tends to focus on what you suck at rather than what you are great at. You'll hear over and over again a line from a contreversial ad: "second place is the first loser." They really do treat you like that and thus development can be tough.

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