What is the salary like at Ministry Brands?

Excellent leadership, good pay and benefits, fun team environment

Onboarding can be bumpy depending on the department

Opportunities for advancement seem to pop up often, work with great people, and management is open to feedback

The starting salary is very modest

Amazing culture Great Benefits Opportunity to make great commission Great product Can learn a lot

Deals can get taken from you based on Rules of Engagement because there are no territories You can be a top performer consistently and still not get promoted Base salary is low compared to industry standard Very political at times ALOT of growing pains so rules are constantly changing Favoritism shown as well

Allows a flexible schedule to have a great work-life balance. We are not micromanaged.

Pay is not great from a salary perspective, and everything seems to be about bottom dollar. Benefits are not the best either.

Good people work here but deserve better. Some schedule flexibility. Remote work.

Benefits have gotten worse, especially health insurance. This year premiums went up, deductibles went up, coverage went down, and most doctor's offices I've walked into suddenly have signs up they are no longer accepting our insurance because they stopped paying for anything. Advertise unlimited PTO that definitely has limits. Extremely poor communication. Product/software development company being run by people that have no idea how it works. Unrealistic expectations, unrealistic timelines, not enough resources. Pay is very low for industry standards and raises are minimal. The pay is even more insulting when you're doing multiple jobs while the company is pushing people to work above and beyond to the point of no work/life balance, being run into the ground, and all because they refuse to listen to people who do know how the processes should work. Lots of hired contractors that have no investment yet somehow run the show, rude, unqualified, and driving projects into the ground. Extremely poor communication between departments forcing some to scramble for go to market in extremely tight timelines with high risks. Company does not care about risks, does not listen to employees, does not listen to customers. Extremely poor planning, no product discovery, poorly written requirements, terrible QA. No cohesiveness between departments. No one knows what anyone is doing. Toxic culture of not listening to SMEs and demanding work that goes against integrity and best practices. They don't do the right thing and really customers should be asking a LOT more questions. Overall, not worth the headache in any capacity.

Fantastic culture. Amazing team, great work-life balance, and highly supportive management.

There is a noticeable gap between our yearly salary adjustments and the current rate of inflation.

A pay check. That's about it.

Executives are out of touch for employees needs. Pay is NOT competitive So-called leaders are constantly being hired and fired. Continously overloading employees with new "Roles", but not compensating them accordingly. People getting fired for minor offenses and being replaced with cheaper labor.

Opportunity to work with some great people

Base pay is low, toxic work culture, stifling upward mobility

People were generally nice. You'll see that feedback a lot about this company. But probably no nicer than anywhere else I've worked. Honestly that's about it.

Oh boy...where do I start. Everyone - and I mean everyone - is overworked and mostly underpaid. It is not unheard of for folks to work a 60-70 hr. work week there. You talk about bandwidth issues and people just shrug their shoulders. Lots of whip-cracking going on. There's a revolving door of employees, either because they were fired or the lucky ones were able to climb out of their prison cells and join the general population again. Someone asks, "what happened to Danielle," and we all know...there is no Danielle anymore. The fact that employees must pay their own way for company trips is a massive red flag. So I pay $2k out of my own pocket for your trip and then you reimburse me? That's like me going to the grocery store, getting food, eating it at home, and then paying you for it a month later. Insanity...never experienced anything like that in my life. I'd get it if they were some kind of start up outfit, but Ministry Brands is a massive operation. Classic example of private equity being CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP. Healthcare and 401k are laughable. I think the 401k was a 1% match. Most company standards are at least 3% and lots have moved to a 4-6% match. The healthcare rates are so bad, I got better coverage through re-runs of ER and Grey's Anatomy. Lots of queen bees and not nearly enough workers or resources. There's a VP/SVP for everything. Even on small teams, you'll find lots of directors, who report to lots of VPs, who report to lots of SVPs, who work for another SVP, and so on. But when you need people to actually do the work, they don't exist. If you're lucky enough to have a decent budget, that helps and can provide help from 3rd parties. That was not my experience. When I asked about additional budget and resources, the answer all too often was, "we don't have budget for that" or "we'll look into that," even though the business expected results immediately. More than once, I presented numbers/goals/KPIs and was told I didn't have the budget to see that goal through, even though the goal is what I was given from the business. Let me repeat that...the business gave me a goal > I gave the business what we need to achieve the goal > the business said I didn't have budget to achieve the goal. So how do you get to the goal? With the only other resource I could control - my own time. This is why you see so many people overworked at Ministry Brands. Every day was like living out an episode of The Twilight Zone. To say I'm glad to no longer be there is an understatement. MB could double my salary and I wouldn't go back. I mean that.

Excellent work-life balance; ability to be independent and not micro managed; opportunity for growth within organization; company values family and volunteering; accountability is highly valued and encouraged; sales goals are aggressive, but attainable; leaders are genuine.

Company can be a bit siloed at times; marketing resources don't seem to be evenly distributed amongst brands; pay is on the lower side for industry and experience level, but reasonable.