Home Depot Salaries: From Sales Rep to CEO

Home Depot is the largest retailer by market capitalization and its stock price reflects rising profits over the years. While the company generously rewards its high-level executives for meeting internal goals, it also pays attention to its frontline workers in its retail stores.

Here’s who makes the most at Home Depot and what the average compensation is among employees.

Home Depot’s top executives were among the highest-paid employees in fiscal 2025 as the retailer continued to post strong profits and meet company goals. CEO Ted Decker had a base salary of $1.4 million, but stock options and cash awards brought his total compensation to $16.19 million.

Among executive vice presidents, Ann-Marie Campbell, who oversees U.S. stores, had a salary of $1 million, but her total compensation was seven times that amount.

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Home Depot’s median compensation, including salary and stock awards, was $37,881 in fiscal 2025. This was based on hourly pay for an associate in the U.S. Decker’s compensation as CEO was $16.19 million, putting the company’s CEO pay ratio at 427 to 1.

This salary ratio is lower than that of five years earlier. Its CEO-to-median employee pay ratio was 511 to 1 in fiscal 2020, when CEO compensation was nearly $14 million and the median was $27,389.

By comparison, at Nvidia, where media employee compensation was much higher, around $300,000, the CEO pay ratio was 166 to 1 in fiscal 2025.

Home Depot generally refers to its employees as associates, whether they work in its stores or in an office at the company’s corporate headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. The retailer had about 472,400 associates at the end of fiscal 2025, but most work in the company’s 2,359 stores and are paid hourly.

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On Home Depot’s careers page on its website, as of mid-April 2026, there were nearly 19,000 job postings for various roles in departments including customer service/sales, warehouse and distribution center, merchandising and support.

In Glendale, New York, which is part of Queens, a sales/customer service associate listing put the hourly rate at $19.50. (The minimum wage in New York City is $17 an hour.) Based on a 40-hour work week, this hourly rate would translate to around $40,560 per year.

That would put him below the average annual salary of $62,608 in the United States, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Home Depot says more than 90% of its U.S. store leaders began their careers with the company as hourly associates. That suggests there are opportunities to move up Home Depot’s corporate ladder, so to speak. The retailer says it provides “associates with training, tools and streamlined processes to empower them to drive sales and significant career advancement opportunities.”

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Beyond base salary, the home improvement retailer offers benefits and incentives to retain its associates, including an employee stock purchase program. For those in management positions, Home Depot said it increased capital allocations to its field leadership, including store managers and assistant store managers, in fiscal 2025.

In its early years, as sales and profits increased, so did Home Depot’s stock price. Stock incentive programs turned some associates into millionaires. An investment of $10,000 on the first day of trading in 1981 would have yielded $168 million by mid-April 2026.

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This story was originally published by TheStreet on April 19, 2026, where it first appeared in the Employment section. Add TheStreet as a preferred source by clicking here.