Does Pearson pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Pearson employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.3 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Pearson. This rating has decreased by 5% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Pearson?

59% of Pearson employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Pearson 3.9 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.5 for culture and values and 3.0 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Pearson?

Test Administrator (193) , Project Manager (156) , Sales Representative (136) , Test Scorer (132) , Software Engineer (129) , Manager (126) , Enrollment Advisor (105) , Director (103) , Scorer (83) , Editor (69) , Product Manager (67) , Senior Software Engineer (61) , Remote Scorer (59) , Intern (44) , Customer Service Representative (43)

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

"Good benefits when your employer doesn't actually have an issue when you use it." ((in 792 reviews)); "Most people at Pearson are great to work with and want to do the right thing." ((in 779 reviews)); "Good work life balance in the sales department of school and higher education but not in other areas" ((in 382 reviews)); "Flexible work from home" ((in 338 reviews)); "Great colleagues and work that is very meaningful" ((in 218 reviews))

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

"Low pay; promotions are impossible to get if you don't want to go into sales" ((in 368 reviews)); "Management was poor and unfair at times" ((in 355 reviews)); "Low salary and hard" ((in 263 reviews)); "there were many layoffs while I was there; although I didn't get laid off myself." ((in 200 reviews)); "Many leaders including line managers do not interact with their teams." ((in 169 reviews))

What are employees saying about Pearson layoffs in 2026?

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

Pearson reviews

3.5

59% would recommend to a friend

(7,743 total reviews)

Omar Abbosh

56% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

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Pearson has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 7,743 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Pearson 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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8K reviews

4.0

Aug 31, 2011

Good place to work but pay scale is very low.

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Pros

Very nice to employees; not treated like a number. Interesting and rewarding work. USR is a good campus to work...lot of smart people there.

Cons

Payscale is very low. Higher level jobs always go to outsiders. Outdated technology in the bldg. (PC's, PDA's) hurts job performance.

2.0

Aug 31, 2011

Dreadful place. I'm glad I'm out.

Anonymous employee

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Pros

Lots of decent, sociable and fun people do work there. The benefits package is competitive. The canteen occasionally does good soup.

Cons

You advance in this company purely by brown-nosing. Senior management are completely out of touch with their staff. If you are senior enough, incompetence is ignored. Sometimes it is rewarded.

3.0

Aug 30, 2011

Why is there so much dead weight?

Marketing coordinator

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Pros

Overall, people are nice. Great location, benefits OK except for vacation time. Summer hours.

Cons

It's so big that there is very little accountability and there is a lot of dead weight, it's a place where if you keep your head down, you can get by without knocking yourself out. Management is very decentralized and there is sort of a "not my job" attitude. Not inspiring. THere is good work going on here but a lot of departments are run so completely separately that no one knows what the other is doing. Cubicle hell.

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