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Dreams makes and sells beds, mattresses, bedroom furniture and bed linen.

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What's the average pay for a sales advisor at Dreams?

The average pay for a sales advisor at Dreams is between £9.34 and £11.00 per hour.

The top paying employers for retail and sales assistants are Apple, Avanti West Coast and Prada.

Last updated 21 March 2024

What is the Real Living Wage?

The Real Living Wage is a voluntary rate employers can sign up to that is based on the real cost of living.

Location Real Living Wage
London £13.15
Rest of the UK £12.00

What is the legal minimum wage?

The minimum wage is the legal minimum you must be paid per hour.

Age group Legal minimum wage
23 or older £10.42
21-22 £10.18
18-20 £7.49
Under 18 £5.28
Apprentices £5.28

How we know this

Based on data from 25 people who took the Breakroom Quiz between April 2022 and March 2024.

Who pays retail and sales assistants the most?

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What are retail and sales assistants saying about pay at Dreams?

  • Best thing

    The store team, the pay

    Worst thing

    Workload
    Poor communication from head office
    No consultation with retail teams with new initiatives or processes which make job harder or less efficient
    Cutting overtime and headcount to protect massive profits despite struggling to recruit for vacancies, leading to overworking and burn out
    Difficult to take breaks

    4.6

    Dreams Store manager, July 2023

  • Best thing

    Lots of downtime

    Worst thing

    -Expected to act like a manger for no extra pay
    -No assistant managers or supervisors
    -Expected to train new staff as a sales assistant
    -Lowest commission of any retailers of similar products
    -No sick pay
    -No flexibility
    -Work every saturday and bank holiday
    -No real benefits
    -No incentives
    -Old outdated systems
    -Old fashioned styles
    -Overpriced products
    -Customer services hard to deal with

    1.5

    Dreams Sales advisor, September 2022

  • Best thing

    the pay, the experience, laid back environment

    Worst thing

    no weekends off no discussion unless u use your holiday but my manager personally gets annoyed at that and says it looks like i’m more exited for time off than time in (like any normal person i’d rather be with my family what a shocker!) absolutely no bank holidays off no matter what unless it’s an emergency and only if the big boss thinks it’s an emergency, barely any career progression in sight

    2.1

    Dreams Sales advisor, March 2022

  • Best thing

    It's very casual at times, we can be left to get on with various things, or we can relax and take breaks when we want (unpaid) The team is good but we're all stuck here as there's nothing that pays much more than this for the experience we collectively have.

    Worst thing

    You'll work 95% of all weekends.
    There is no official sick pay. If you're sick, you better come in or lose a day's wages.
    Far too many KPI targets to hit every week.
    Sleepmatch is a joke as its a glorified weighing scale.
    There is little to no progression as staff tend to stay where they are, and yet they'll put you on insanely long training courses for management roles, yet someone from outside the company can become a manager here with a little bit of training.... Yet they really don't know what they're doing half the time.

    1.3

    Dreams Sales assistant, June 2021

  • Best thing

    Local to hone

    Worst thing

    No sick pay, working every bank holiday

    2.3

    Dreams Sales assistant, September 2020

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