Does Lockheed Martin pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Lockheed Martin employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.9 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Lockheed Martin. This rating has been stable over the past 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Lockheed Martin?

83% of Lockheed Martin employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Lockheed Martin 4.2 out of 5 for work life balance, 3.8 for culture and values and 4.1 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Lockheed Martin?

Software Engineer (901) , Systems Engineer (678) , Senior Software Engineer (291) , Engineer (246) , Intern (188) , Senior Systems Engineer (187) , Financial Analyst (177) , Mechanical Engineer (166) , Manufacturing Engineer (134) , Program Manager (112) , Project Manager (111) , Associate Software Engineer (110) , Subcontract Administrator (103) , Quality Engineer (94) , Project Engineer (89)

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

"Good Benefits and a full catalog of potential tech careers can be had working for them." ((in 1599 reviews)); "Good pay; and you get to work around some amazing machinery that will fight wars and save lives." ((in 1132 reviews)); "Great work life balance while feeling satisfied and fulfilled by the work I am performing." ((in 1024 reviews)); "People are fair to work with a few bad apples but other than that most people are great." ((in 931 reviews)); "Very flexible and the culture is great." ((in 335 reviews))

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

"Poor management and hard to get things accomplished" ((in 590 reviews)); "Some managers have absolutely zero clue how anything actually gets done and are poor leaders." ((in 291 reviews)); "Senior leadership had a very difficult time articulating that overall strategy and direction for the division." ((in 160 reviews)); "Literal no training and you are told to train yourself in outside programs you have to pay for." ((in 137 reviews)); "The upper management is horrible" ((in 131 reviews))

What are employees saying about Lockheed Martin layoffs in 2026?

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

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Lockheed Martin reviews

4.1

83% would recommend to a friend

(14,538 total reviews)

James D. Taiclet

82% approve of CEO

73% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.2

Work/Life balance

4.1

Career opportunities

4.0

Diversity & inclusion

3.9

Compensation and benefits

3.8

Culture & values

3.5

Senior management

Lockheed Martin has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 14,538 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Lockheed Martin employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Aérospatiale et défense industry (3.6 stars).

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Reviews by job title

15K reviews

2.0

May 18, 2021

Good stability

Communications manager

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Still doing some very exciting scientific and technological work. Job stability is excellent, especially for strong performers. There are opportunities for younger generations to grow quickly if they perform and play politics well since a lot of the workforce is nearing retirement age.

Cons

A lot of red tape and internal politics. Bad managers are allowed to continue being bad managers with HR, Ethics and senior leaders not doing anything to fix it beyond a slap on the wrist and token trainings that don't actually get followed up by meaningful measurements to see if they worked (management science 101). Gets demoralizing for good employees trying to do well and make a difference.

1.0

Apr 11, 2021

Terrible

Senior electronic associate inpector

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Decent benefits and decent schedule if you like a 4/10 shift

Cons

Constantly a battle between salary and hourly, never have I ever felt like a number until working for this company. I was sexually harassed twice, the first time they forced me to continue working with this salary employee. The second time I knew nothing would be done again so I put in my immediate resignation.

1.0

Feb 27, 2021

Not the job for ambitious people

Engineer

Recommend

CEO approval

Business Outlook

Pros

Easy job don’t have to put in a ton of effort to be considered an average employee and engineers get a decent pay especially if you choose to work in a more rural area. Depending on location and department there might be actual exciting work to do. Most people speak highly of SPACE. If you work classified you literally can’t take your work home which allows for pretty good work/life balance (at least if you have a manager that doesn’t force you to stay long hours)

Cons

Most everything. Especially blatant sexism and racism. The work is incredibly slow and doesn’t require much thought they give you months to complete work that should take any decent engineer a week max to do. Don’t expect to work on anything innovative most everything is years behind any non defense tech company.

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