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Retail Sales Associate at Best Buy

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Job Description

As a Retail Sales Associate, you're the face of Best Buy for everyone who visits our store. This role learns all aspects of working in a store, including sales and providing world-class customer service. You'll receive all the training you need to recommend the right products and services to meet each customer's needs. This role also helps with tasks such as stocking shelves, online orders and making sure the store is clean and organized.

What you'll do
  • Create a great shopping experience by engaging with customers in a warm, friendly manner
  • Drive sales by recommending products and solutions that meet customers' needs
  • Perform cashier duties for purchases, returns and exchanges
  • Assist with store inventory and merchandising
Basic qualifications
  • Working and thriving in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment
  • Working a flexible schedule that matches your availability (weekends, nights, holidays, etc)
What's in it for you

We're committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.

Our benefits include:
  • Competitive pay
  • Generous employee discount
  • Physical and mental well-being support
About us

As part of the Best Buy team, you'll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life - in our stores, online and in customers' homes.

Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We're committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.

Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.

Application deadline: Minimum of 5 days from the posting date. You can find that date above the job title at the top of the page.

Position Type: Full timePandoLogic. Category:Sales,

Typical entry-level pay: $29k for Retail Salespersons nationally

National salary averages
Expected entry-level
$29k
Entry
Mid
Senior
Expected
$26k Market range (10th-90th percentile) $48k

Mid-level roles pay ~19% more—room to grow.

Hot hiring, constrained wages

Employers are hiring actively, but pay hasn't caught up with demand. Focus on competing offers and non-salary benefits.

Hiring leverage
Candidate-favored
Wage leverage âš  Disconnect
Constrained
Mobility
High mobility
Durability
High fragility

Why this market feels harder than it looks

This market is hiring aggressively, but compensation hasn't caught up and most openings are backfilling churn, not expansion. Employers are filling roles, but not bidding wages up.

Who this leverage applies to

Stronger for: Senior candidates with options
Weaker for: Entry-level candidates, Career switchers

Where to negotiate

Base salary
Sign-on bonus
Title / level
Remote flexibility
Scope & responsibility
Start date / PTO

Likely Possible Unlikely

Watch out for

Wage disconnect: Hiring is active but pay hasn't responded—negotiate on other terms.

Don't let hiring headlines mislead you—focus on concrete offers. Your leverage may be less durable than it appears—move decisively.

Does this path compound?

Job Growth →
High churn
Growth, flat pay
🚀 Compound
Growth + pay upside
⚠️ Plateau
Limited growth
Specialize
Experts earn more
Pay Upside →
Stable but flat

Steady work, but limited growth in both jobs and pay.

-1%
10yr growth
Most openings come from retirements and turnover, not new positions.
555,800 openings projected annually—mostly replacing retirees and turnover.
Typical: No formal educational credential

Openings come from turnover, not new growth. Differentiate to advance.

Labor data: BLS 2024