Home Depot Jobs, Pay by Role and Hiring Age
Home Depot jobs pay at least $15 an hour in every U.S. market. Store postings checked on October 30, 2026 ran from $15 for a Georgia cashier to $24 for a Denver supervisor.
Teens can apply. Home Depot hires under-18s for store jobs, but assistant managers must be 18, and delivery drivers, technicians and mechanics 21.
Where you live moves the pay more than the job title does, so read the range on the posting itself.
Home Depot Pay by Job
Home Depot doesn’t publish a pay scale, but many of its job postings carry a pay range. Denver makes a good snapshot, because one store there was hiring for four different jobs at once.
| Job at a Denver store | Posted pay per hour |
|---|---|
| Cashier | $19.50 to $20.50 |
| Lot associate | $20.50 |
| Pro customer service and sales | $20.50 to $21.50 |
| Customer service and sales | $20.50 to $22.50 |
| Merchandising | $21.00 |
| Freight and receiving | $21.50 to $22.50 |
| Department supervisor | $24.00 |
The cashier, both sales jobs and freight were all posted for the store on Quebec Street, so they show the spread inside one building. From the bottom of the cashier range to the top of the freight range is just $3 an hour.
That’s the header of the Denver cashier posting. Every posting I checked carried the same fine print, that starting pay “may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered and location.”
Full time at those rates works out to about $40,560 a year for a cashier starting at $19.50 and $49,920 for a supervisor at $24. That’s my math on a 2,080-hour year, before overtime or bonuses.
Supervisor and Manager Pay
Department supervisors stay hourly. The next step up, assistant store manager, is salaried, and Home Depot’s careers site says its manager bonus can run from 25% to 60% of annual salary, depending on how the store performs.
One detail most pay roundups skip is that Home Depot lists the assistant manager job as salaried but non-exempt, the class that still qualifies for overtime.
Cashier Pay by City
The same cashier job was posted more than $5 an hour apart, depending on the city.
Local minimum wages explain most of the gap. Denver’s city minimum is $19.29 an hour for 2026, and the Denver cashier range starts 21 cents above it. Colorado Springs, in the same state, lists $16 to $17.
In Georgia, where the federal $7.25 minimum applies, Home Depot’s own floor does the work. In February 2023 the company put an extra $1 billion into hourly pay and said its starting wage was at least $15 in every U.S. market. The Kennesaw posting sits right on that line.
Not every posting shows a number. Cashier postings for Atlanta and Houston, checked the same day, left the pay range blank. When that happens, the interview is the place to ask.
Raises, Bonuses and Benefits
The hourly rate is only part of the package. Home Depot’s postings list these for store associates:
- Profit-sharing bonuses, called Success Sharing, plus merit raises
- Home Depot stock at a 15% discount through payroll deductions
- A 401(k) with a company match
- Medical, dental and vision plans
- Tuition reimbursement, scholarships and discounted tuition at partner schools
- Paid parental leave and six paid holidays a year
Paid time off builds slowly at first. Full-time hourly associates get 40 hours of vacation after six months, and part-timers get 20. Sick time adds 4 hours a month for full-time and 2 for part-time, or more where local law requires it.
Home Depot also lists associate discounts on things from cellphones to childcare, but there’s no employee discount on store merchandise.
Shifts and Holidays
Most store shifts fall inside store hours, which at most stores means 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday, with shorter Sundays. Overnight freight and merchandising teams are the exception, stocking shelves after the doors close, so check your store’s Home Depot hours against the shift on the posting.
Home Depot’s cashier page describes morning, afternoon and evening shifts, with schedules posted well ahead. Most holidays are workdays, too, because stores close only on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day, as the holiday hours calendar shows.
Home Depot Hiring Age
Home Depot doesn’t post one minimum age for store jobs, but its own hiring pages settle the main questions.
- Store jobs. Applicants under 18 are hired, and they bring a parent or guardian to the onsite interview to sign documents.
- Assistant store manager. 18 or older, per the job postings.
- Delivery drivers, technicians and mechanics. 21 or older, per Home Depot’s driver jobs page.
Federal law limits what a teen hire can do once on the floor. The Labor Department’s list of jobs off-limits to workers under 18 includes operating forklifts and scissor lifts, balers and compactors, and power saws, and driving on the job.
That matters most in freight, where Home Depot says associates load and unload trucks and may operate forklifts. A 16- or 17-year-old fits more naturally on the register or the sales floor, and state child labor rules can add limits of their own.
Since there’s no published minimum, the posting or the store’s hiring team is the place to confirm whether a younger teen can start.
How to Apply at Home Depot
Every hourly application goes through the same four steps.
- Search openings on careers.homedepot.com by location, job title or keyword. Store postings take applications on an ongoing basis.
- Take the online assessment. The link appears right after you submit, you get 96 hours, and it takes about 20 minutes.
- Watch your email and phone. If your application is selected, Home Depot gets in touch to set up an interview.
- Arrive 15 minutes early for the onsite visit and orientation, with identity documents for your hiring paperwork.
Store jobs get 11 video scenarios and 16 multiple-choice questions, covering how you’d handle customers, sales and teamwork. It works on a phone, but I’d take it somewhere quiet, as Home Depot itself recommends, since you can stop and restart within the 96 hours.
Home Depot says it only takes applications on careers.homedepot.com, plus careerdepot.homedepot.com for current associates, and never asks for money or credit card details while hiring. Treat any “recruiter” who does as a scam.
Picking Your First Home Depot Job
If the goal is the most money at the start, freight and receiving led Denver’s entry-level postings at up to $22.50. It’s physical work around trucks and pallets, though, and anything involving a forklift is for adults only.
For a first job, I’d apply for cashier and customer service at the same store on the same day. The postings themselves ask you to come back and apply for other jobs at that store and the ones nearby, and two applications give the hiring team two ways to say yes.
The cashier job isn’t a dead end, either. Home Depot said in 2023 that 90% of its store leaders started as hourly associates.
