What is the salary like at Holt Renfrew?

Employees appreciate the generous staff discount on luxury items and quality health benefits, while those who excel in sales can earn strong commission on top of base salary. The company offers opportunities for building meaningful client relationships and working with prestigious fashion brands in an upscale retail environment.

The workplace culture can be highly competitive and toxic, with management described as disorganized and employees reporting a judgmental atmosphere where client needs are prioritized over employee well-being. Compensation tends to be low for retail positions, and career advancement is slow with limited professional development opportunities despite high expectations and additional responsibilities.

Good pay, easy work and nice people

Not a lot of work

Benefits, fashion, beauty, vendors, co-workers

toxic environment, toxic management, poor salary, unrealistic sales targets, management encourages employee dramas and fights over commission, commission rules aren't the same as with the other locations

Free products and great discounts in store.

Very low pay, not competitive with market standard. Toxic senior management within the beauty department.

- Good pay and comission, good incentives/freebies - Good chance of getting promoted because managers get a bonus if they promote someone, you just have to be a kiss up and be an over achiever

- Not even worth getting promoted though because pressure becomes 1000x worse, I've seen a handful of employees demote themselves back down to sales associate because the expectations were too high - Unrealistic sales expectations from corporate and feedback for sales tactics, merchandising, or productivity issues do not get implemented (How do you expect us to sell if the way you tell us to display our product causes damage to the merchandise) - High turnover rate for management, I had 2 different managers and 5 different assistant managers within <2 years of working there - Minimal associates on the salesfloor due to dwindling scheduling budget, causing theft, angry customers, and missed sales, due to not enough associates to help customers, but then it's our fault

Good salary and a nice work environment for restaurant employees

Lack of vision or direction

employee discount, flexible hours, commission based salary, incentives

competitive environment, people's relationship, blackout period during holiday season;

Decent discount, if you have a big cap allowance

No room for growth, way too much work for the salary you’re making, not appreciated by peers, the work you do is always presented by your superiors and they take credit for it…toxic work environment.

flexible managers, great staff discounts

work til 9pm on some days, pay is low for the effort required in dealing with customers and closing shop

- Different routine everyday - Enriching customer encounters - Interesting benefits - Performance based salary, great if you're a good salesperson

- Very little growth opportunities - Lots of false hope, play on empty promises - Very little room for salary negociations - Head office is disconnected from realities of in store operations.