The Y (YMCA) reviews

3.9

71% would recommend to a friend

(21,935 total reviews)

Suzanne McCormick

78% approve of CEO

58% positive business outlook

The Y (YMCA) has an employee rating of 3.9 out of 5 stars, based on 21,935 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The The Y (YMCA) employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the ONG y Organizaciones sin fines de lucro industry (3.7 stars).

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22K reviews
2.0
Jun 21, 2024

Don't. Just don't.

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Pros

You do get a free individual membership.

Cons

Nobody is ever allowed to be full time unless they are members of the Reilley family or friends of that family. And if you ever displease any of those full time employees - even if you're not on the clock! - you will be written up. Managers bill full time hours, but are "working from home, (read: getting pedicures and massages and going out to lunch)" leaving untrained staff to handle everything AND get blamed for everything that goes wrong, including the entire budget of the organization. Seriously. People who make $12-$13 an hour are told that the Y can't afford to give them more than 28 hours a week, but four members of one family are pulling in a total of almost one million dollars a year (oh, and awarding contracts to their family friends!) for their "executive leadership." The facilities are physically falling apart because of contracts awarded to friends of the family who runs the association for substandard work and substandard materials (seriously, the floors are literally peeling up because house-grade materials were used for an industrial-grade application, and almost a quarter of a million dollars was spent for "improvements" at one branch that had to be completely ripped out and re-done). Did I mention the forensic audit that the Board commissioned that was hidden from Y-USA?

1.0
Feb 18, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Access for free to the gym.

Cons

My goodness where to start? It's been so long and they are still paying $20 for a 1 hr of class. We , the instructors have to keep up with CEU's , CPR , Zumba fees every month and they have never increased wages, no wonder they are always looking for instructors . If you can charge members , $50 , $70 let alone family packages, why not offering a better wage for the instructors ? There is not benefits , 401k for part-time workers, then why you don't pay at least $30 per class , it's still low , with all the inflation , but at least is better than $20 .

1.0
Oct 13, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

-Mission of the Organization -Caliber of the membership

Cons

-Very toxic work environment -No work life balance -More work than a small staff can handle -Burned out staff -Unresponsive executive team -No processes -Staff works harder and not smarter -Executive staff have no skill set and do things that don't make sense

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