Does Elsevier pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Elsevier employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.6 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Elsevier. This rating has improved by 1% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Elsevier?

79% of Elsevier employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Elsevier 4.4 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.2 for culture and values and 3.6 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Elsevier?

Software Engineer (78) , Senior Software Engineer (63) , Account Manager (61) , Product Manager (55) , Journal Manager (49) , Project Manager (37) , Publisher (30) , Director (29) , Editor (28) , Manager (23) , Sales (22) , Editorial Project Manager (21) , Software Engineer III (19) , Marketing (18) , Data Scientist (16)

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

"Flexibility and good work/life balance" ((in 291 reviews)); "You get the chance to work with great people that are very driven and know their subject area very well." ((in 165 reviews)); "Great employees and colleagues" ((in 142 reviews)); "Great company and team to work for." ((in 55 reviews)); "Customers shows lot of respect to the company good work culture" ((in 42 reviews))

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

"We're continued to be asked to develop "world class content" with third world resources and insultingly low salaries." ((in 89 reviews)); "The pay is low and does not increase by much each year" ((in 85 reviews)); "Management on the corporate side is poor with very little business development experience." ((in 82 reviews)); "level and higher managers result in poor leadership and decision" ((in 54 reviews)); "There are also bad managers and seemingly no easy way to reduce their impact on the staff for whom they are responsible." ((in 53 reviews))

What are employees saying about Elsevier layoffs in 2026?

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

Elsevier reviews

4.0

79% would recommend to a friend

(2,190 total reviews)

Kumsal Bayazit

91% approve of CEO

76% positive business outlook

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Elsevier has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 2,190 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Elsevier employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Audiovisual y medios de comunicación industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews

5.0

Aug 21, 2014

Good Company. Stable. Great Benefits

Software engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

All the benefits of working for a large multinational. Great health benefits Nice professional environment Nice people to work with Great place to learn project management Good work-life balance

Cons

Company can move slowly and is struggling to move to digital publishing from print. Company is silo-ed and often if seems as if there are groups working separately toward common goals with no knowledge of what the other groups are doing.

2.0

Aug 15, 2014

Corporate Lingo Bingo

Editorial project manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Decent benefits. A lot of talk about mentoring and enhancement of skills, but no true valuing of the hardest (grunt) workers.

Cons

Full of nonefficient corporate BS, purported to increase efficiency but does just the opposite. Lots of hard workers, but lots of the work is on nonimportant tasks that are for career advancement rather than improvement of the products.

3.0

Aug 13, 2014

Different roles on the editorial and busines side

Business development executive

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

The company is active in a broad range of fields, and in many different ways, so there is a plethora of opportunities for personal enrichment and development.

Cons

Management ("the other side") and the rest of the company are strongly separated. Advancement to the higher level is almost impossible. They rather higher former consultants to fill in VP (and up) positions. Generally lacking deep insights in the fields that Elsevier is active, they tend to rely on consultancy speak and methods, with very little positive effects on the overall performance of the company.

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