Home Depot does not publish an employee discount on store merchandise. Its benefits page lists discounts on gym memberships, home electronics, meal kits, groceries and food delivery, and no discount on the products it sells. Its annual filing lists healthcare, wellness, vacation and leave, a 401(k) match, stock purchase plans, personal finance education, family support and educational assistance — and no discount.
This is worth stating carefully. Home Depot has never published a statement saying it does not offer one. The finding is the absence of any such benefit across every page Home Depot publishes, corroborated by employees, one of whose Reddit threads titled "Why doesn't Home Depot offer an employee discount?" ranks on page one for this query.
Corrected September 2026: this article stated that Home Depot gives employees 10 percent off regular-priced merchandise. No Home Depot benefits page, careers page or annual filing describes any merchandise discount. Replaced with what Home Depot does publish, including free vision cover for all associates, Success Sharing and the Homer Fund.
Key takeaways
- No merchandise discount appears on any Home Depot benefits page or in its annual filing. Home Depot is the outlier among large United States retailers on this.
- Vision cover at $120 is free to every associate, including part-time. Medical cover is full-time only.
- Employee stock purchase plan at a 15 percent discount, confirmed in the plan document as a purchase price of 85 percent of fair market value.
- Success Sharing paid approximately $250 million to associates for the 2024 financial year, and more than $860 million over three years.
- The Homer Fund awarded $16.9 million in 2024 across more than 11,800 grants, and around $285 million to roughly 200,000 associates since 1999.
- Six paid holidays, with vacation of 40 hours for full-time and 20 hours for part-time associates after six months.
Does Home Depot give employees a discount?
Not on merchandise. Home Depot's benefits page carries a discounts section, and what it contains is instructive: gym memberships, home electronics, meal kits, groceries and food delivery. Its other careers page lists "exclusive discounts on everyday purchases, like cell phone bills". Neither mentions products sold in the store.
The annual filing describes the benefits package in a single sentence covering healthcare and wellness, vacation and leave, the 401(k) match, the stock purchase plans, personal finance education, family support and educational assistance. A merchandise discount is not among them.
The previous version of this page asserted a 10 percent discount in its opening sentence, then two sections later stated that "Glassdoor reviews show that typical discounts range from 15% to 20% off most items". A page cannot carry both and be right, and neither figure has a Home Depot source. Both are gone.
What do Home Depot associates actually get?
Free vision cover, and this is the benefit most worth knowing. Home Depot states that a $120 vision plan is provided at no cost to all associates, part-time included. Medical cover, by contrast, is full-time only.
Success Sharing is the bonus programme, and it is substantial: approximately $250 million paid to associates for the 2024 financial year, and more than $860 million over the preceding three years, per Home Depot's own values report. The Homer Fund, which makes hardship grants to associates, awarded $16.9 million across more than 11,800 grants in 2024, and around $285 million to roughly 200,000 associates since 1999.
The employee stock purchase plan runs at a 15 percent discount, which the plan document expresses as a purchase price of "85% of the Fair Market Value of a Share on the Purchase Date". Home Depot also reported a 3 percent merit increase budget for hourly and salaried associates and 11.6 million hours of associate training in 2024.
Figure 1. How much of the answer a searcher wants is stated by the employer itself, assessed on 1 September 2026. Home Depot is the case where the absence of a benefit is itself the answer.
What are the part-time and full-time rules?
Home Depot publishes this more clearly than most, and the table is the useful part of the page. Medical cover is full-time only. Vision at $120 is free to everyone. Vacation is 40 hours for full-time hourly associates after six months and 20 hours for part-time. Sick time accrues at four hours a month for full-time and two hours a month for part-time, or as required by law. There are six paid holidays.
Two figures Home Depot deliberately does not publish are the 401(k) match percentage and the tuition reimbursement amounts. Its own associate portal routes people to the Benefits Choice Center by telephone for both. Telling a reader that the number is not public, and giving them the route to it, is more useful than inventing one.
Path to Pro and the Orange Method are frequently listed as Home Depot employee benefits. Neither appears on either careers benefits page, in the annual filing, or in the values report as an employee benefit, so this article does not present them as one.
How does this compare with Lowe's?
Lowe's wins the headline and it is not close: Lowe's publishes a 10 percent discount on store merchandise for all associates, plus a lifetime discount at 25 years of service. Home Depot publishes none.
The wider comparison is more even. Home Depot's free vision cover for part-time associates and its Success Sharing programme are both real and both substantial, and Lowe's publishes no equivalent bonus figure. Lowe's counters with a debt-free degree programme that Home Depot does not match.
For context on employers that do publish a rate, our guides to Amazon employee discounts and Costco employee benefits cover the two clearest disclosers in large-format retail.
Home Depot employed approximately 472,400 associates as of 1 February 2026, of whom roughly 53,400 are salaried, with 422,500 in the United States.
Frequently asked questions
Does Home Depot give an employee discount?
Not on merchandise. Home Depot's benefits pages list discounts on gym memberships, electronics, meal kits, groceries and food delivery, and no discount on store products. No Home Depot page or filing describes a merchandise discount, which makes it an outlier among large retailers.
Do part-time Home Depot employees get benefits?
Some. Vision cover worth $120 is free to all associates including part-time, and part-time associates accrue 20 hours of vacation after six months and two hours of sick time a month. Medical cover is full-time only.
What is Success Sharing at Home Depot?
A bonus programme paid to associates based on company performance. Home Depot reported approximately $250 million paid for the 2024 financial year and more than $860 million over the preceding three years.
What is the Homer Fund?
Home Depot's hardship assistance fund for associates. It awarded $16.9 million across more than 11,800 grants in 2024, and around $285 million to approximately 200,000 associates since 1999.
What is the Home Depot 401(k) match?
Home Depot confirms a company match exists and does not publish the percentage. Its associate portal directs people to the Benefits Choice Center for the figure, as it does for tuition reimbursement amounts.
Does Home Depot offer tuition reimbursement?
Yes, but the amounts are not published. Home Depot's own portal routes associates to the Benefits Choice Center by telephone rather than stating a figure, so any specific amount found online is not from Home Depot.
