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Six Flags (1961) Entertainment Corporation is the world’s largest regional theme park company headquartered in Grand Prairie. read more
EMPLOYEE
PARTICIPANTS
349
TOTAL
RATINGS
2794

Six Flags Company Culture

Six Flags Culture

This score is derived from employee ratings & reviews
4.1/5
Six Flags' Overall Culture is rated B

Top Rated Culture Dimensions

Six Flags CEO

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Michael Spanos Six Flags' CEO
Michael Spanos
68 /100

Diversity at Six Flags

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C+

Diverse employees at Six Flags have rated Office Culture, Professional Development, and Team as the highest categories they have scored

Women at Six Flags

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B

Women at Six Flags have rated Office Culture, Team, and Retention as the highest categories they have scored

Six Flags eNPS

Net Promoter Score tracks your employees' overall score to this question: "On a scale from 0-10, how likely are you to recommend working at your company to a friend?"
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Recommend to a Friend?

8

Six Flags employees are 8% more likely to recommend Six Flags as a great place to work

43%Promoters
22%Passives
35%Detractors

Working at Six Flags

Working at Six Flags is rated highly by 349 employees, across various culture dimensions. Six Flags employees are most satisfied about Office Culture, Environment, and Executive Team categories, putting Six Flags’s culture in the Top 25% compared to similar sized companies on Comparably and in the Top 35% compared to other companies in Dallas. See below in detail how working at Six Flags was rated by employees.

Overall Company Culture at Six Flags

B

Overall Company Culture at Six Flags is rated B

Last updated 21 days ago

Top
25%

Six Flags ranks in the Top 25% of other companies on Comparably with 10,000+ Employees for Overall Company Culture Score

Overall Company Culture Score by Department

This graph details how each department scores their Overall Company Culture

Results from 349 Employees

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Sales
78
Sales78
Operations
72
Operations72
Customer Support
69
Customer Support69
HR
50
HR50

Six Flags Employee Reviews

Out of 298 Six Flags employee reviews, 74% were positive. The remaining 26% were constructive reviews with the goal of helping Six Flags improve their work culture.

74%
26%
Positive Reviews74%
Constructive Feedback26%

Positive Reviews From Six Flags Employees

  • What did you like most about the interview process?
    I appreciate the mere opportunity to interview, in the first place.
  • What makes you most happy at work?
    The pride of making it successfully through a shift.
  • What do you like best about the leadership team?
    Most important job experience, given I am over 70, and needed a job (given the economy and the risk of theft of Social Security checks from the US government

Constructive Feedback From Six Flags Employees

  • Why do you feel undervalued and what would make you feel better about your compensation?
    Longevity to my trade loyalty to good work
  • What does the leadership team need to get better at?
    They need get better and I got hit twice
  • What do your coworkers need to improve and how could you work together better?
    Well My Coworkers are good with me

Six Flags Company Information

Six Flags Company Overview

Six Flags (1961) Entertainment Corporation is the world’s largest regional theme park company headquartered in Grand Prairie.

Six Flags Mission, Vision & Values

Six Flags Mission & Values

Establish Six Flags Friends as the pre-eminent community outreach program within the entertainment industry by encouraging and inspiring children and families throughout our parks and their local communities. Through volunteerism, giving programs, special events, and educational and social awareness we weave a wide circle of friends and foster the bonds that make up communities across our nation.

Six Flags Vision Statement

To make the customers delightful by providing world class products and services which meets the expectation of the people

Headquarter924 Avenue J East
Grand Prairie, TX
United States of America
Websitewww.sixflags.com/
Founding Date1971
Tel972-595-5000
Company StatusPublic
StockSIX

Six Flags Competitors

Six Flags competitors include Wonderla Holidays, Cedar Fair, and Blueboard. Six Flags ranks 3rd in Overall Culture Score on Comparably vs its competitors. See below how Six Flags compares to its competitors with CEO Rankings, Product & Services, NPS, Pricing, Customer Services, Overall Culture Score, eNPS, Gender and Diversity Scores.

  1. #1
    Wonderla Holidays' Logo
    Wonderla Holidays
    4.5/5
  2. #2
    Cedar Fair's Logo
    Cedar Fair
    4.2/5
  3. #3
    Six Flags' Logo
    Six Flags
    4.1/5
  4. #4
    Blueboard's Logo
    Blueboard
    3.4/5
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Six Flags Employees

349 employees at Six Flags have reviewed Six Flags across various culture dimensions, providing their opinions on items ranging from executive ratings to the pace at work. The latest review was 21 days ago.

Overall, the 349 Six Flags employees give their leadership a grade of B, or Top 30% of similar size companies on Comparably. This includes specific ratings of their executive team, CEO, and manager.

Employees at Six Flags are not very pleased with their total compensation at Six Flags, which includes a combination of pay, stock and equity, and benefits.

Overall, employees at Six Flags are pleased with their team. 349 Participants grade the quality of their coworkers a B. The majority believe the meetings at Six Flags are effective, and the majority look forward to interacting with their coworkers.

The majority of employees at Six Flags believe the environment at Six Flags is positive. Most Participants believe the pace of work at Six Flags is comfortably fast. About 57% of the employees at Six Flags work 8 hours or less, while 17% of them have an extremely long day - longer than twelve hours.

Overall, the employees at Six Flags are generally happy, based on their aggregated ratings of future outlook, customer perception, and their excitement going to work.

A Day in the Life
A Day in the Life
Six Flags employees generally work 9.2 hrs a day
Work Hours
A Day in the Life
Employees at Six Flags report the work pace is comfortably fast
Work Pace
A Day in the Life
89% of Six Flags employees look forward to interacting with their team every day
Coworkers
A Day in the Life
Six Flags employees typically get valuable feedback on how to improve at work Every Week
Feedback
A Day in the Life
74% of Six Flags employees call their work environment positive
Environment

Joining Six Flags - Employee Onboarding

The prevailing opinion from employees about joining Six Flags is that the company was prepared on their first day. Six Flags employees concluded that their overall onboarding experience was positive. 33% said their direct manager was helpful with their acclimation during the first 90 days. First impressions are important, and how prepared a company is on your first day leaves a lasting impression.

Six Flags KPIs and OKRs

At Six Flags 50% of employees think their department KPIs and OKRs are clear. Employees’ understanding of Six Flags' KPIs and OKRs is essential for its success. Out of 4 Six Flags employees who’ve answered, “Are your company’s goals clear and are you invested in them?” 3 have said yes.

AnswerPercent
Yes75%
No25%
Are your company's goals clear, and are you invested in them?
AnswerPercent
Yes50%
No50%
Are the KPIs/OKRs for your department clear?

Six Flags CEO & Leadership

Six Flags CEO - Michael Spanos

Michael Spanos Six Flags' CEO
68 /100

Six Flags’s CEO Michael Spanos started in this role in 2019. Michael’s approval rate is just above average, putting Michael in the Top 50% of all CEOs of similar-sized companies on Comparably, and in the Top 50% compared to the CEOs of all other companies in Dallas. Michael Spanos is well regarded by employees for the Office Culture Six Flags offers, and ranks among the Top 5% of CEOs by employees in that category. Michael is most liked by employees in the Customer Support department and employees in the Sales department. However, employees in the HR department have a slightly unfavorable view of the CEO. When compared to Six Flags’s competitors, Michael Spanos ranks just above Blueboard’s CEO Taylor Smith. With Michael’s leadership, Six Flags employee respondents are most happy about their Office Culture and Environment. Michael was rated slightly below average for Compensation.

Six Flags Leadership

The Six Flags Executive Team is rated a “B+” and led by CEO Michael Spanos, COO Jack Smoth, and CMO, Senior Vice President, Marketing & Sales Brett Petit

  • Michael Spanos  CEO / President

    Michael Spanos CEO / President

    Michael Spanos serves as the CEO / President of Six Flags.

  • Jack Smoth COO

    Jack Smoth serves as the COO of Six Flags.

  • Brett Petit CMO, Senior Vice President, Marketing & Sales

    Brett Petit serves as the CMO, Senior Vice President, Marketing & Sales of Six Flags. Brett started at Six Flags in Jun... read more

  • John Bement SR Vice President

    John Bement serves as the SR Vice President of Six Flags.

  • John Odum Sr VP

    John Odum serves as the Sr VP of Six Flags.

  • Mike Antinoro Executive Vice President

    Mike Antinoro serves as the Executive Vice President of Six Flags.

  • Wendy Goldberg Senior Vice President, Communications

    Wendy Goldberg serves as the Senior Vice President, Communications of Six Flags.

  • Stephen Purtell Senior Vice President Investor Relations and Treasurer

    Stephen Purtell serves as the Senior Vice President Investor Relations and Treasurer of Six Flags. Stephen started at... read more

  • Tom Iven senior Vice President

    Tom Iven serves as the senior Vice President of Six Flags.

Six Flags Salaries

How much does Six Flags pay?

How much do people at Six Flags get paid? See the latest salaries by department and job title. The average estimated annual salary, including base and bonus, at Six Flags is $125,136, or $60 per hour, while the estimated median salary is $114,900, or $55 per hour.

At Six Flags, the highest paid job is a Director of Sales at $248,991 annually and the lowest is a CS Rep at $37,029 annually. Average Six Flags salaries by department include: Finance at $88,584, Design at $94,276, Business Development at $191,858, and Engineering at $124,818. Half of Six Flags salaries are above $114,900.

137 employees at Six Flags rank their Compensation in the Bottom 40% of similar sized companies in the US (based on 408 ratings) while 131 employees at Six Flags rank their Perks And Benefits in the Bottom 40% of similar sized companies in the US (based on 135 ratings).

Salaries contributed from Six Flags employees include job titles like Data Analyst and Human Resources Representative. Comparably data has a total of 1 salary records from Six Flags employees.

Last updated 21 days ago.

1st Percentile
$61k
$61k1st Percentile
17th Percentile
$88k
$88k17th Percentile
33rd Percentile
$114k
$114k33rd Percentile
50th Percentile
$175k
$175k50th Percentile
67th Percentile
$237k
$237k67th Percentile
83rd Percentile
$270k
$270k83rd Percentile
100th Percentile
$299k
$299k100th Percentile
$125,136*
Average Compensation
$114,900*
Median Compensation

* Estimated salaries Estimated salaries are based on data provided anonymously by employees and/or estimated by other statistical methods.

Six Flags Salaries by Department

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Diversity & Inclusion at Six Flags

Diverse employees at Six Flags score the company 66/100 across various culture categories, placing Six Flags in the Top 50% of companies on Comparably with 10,000+ Employees for Comparably's diversity score. The Diversity score provides insights into how diverse employees feel and rate their work experience at Six Flags across various culture dimensions.

Ranked Culture the Highest

Women 78/100
Department - Operations
Men 73/100
Department - Customer Support
Diverse Employees 76/100
Department - Sales

Ranked Culture the Lowest

Women 66/100
Department - Customer Support
Men 62/100
Department - Operations
Diverse Employees 63/100
Department - Customer Support

Six Flags Perks & Benefits

Health & Wellness

  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Health Insurance
  • Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

  • PTO / Vacation Policy
  • Paid Holidays
  • Maternity / Paternity Leave

Financial Benefits

  • 401K / Retirement Plan
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Office Perks

  • Unique Office Space

Six Flags PTO

Six Flags' PTO and Vacation policy typically gives 0-10 days off a year with 0% of employees expected to be work free while out of office. Six Flags' benefits and PTO Package averages to represent a $1000 -$1500 cash value per month.

AnswerPercent
Flex Time50%
Vacation Policy0%
Office Meals0%
401k Contribution50%
Childcare0%
Other than healthcare, which of the following benefits is most important to you?
AnswerPercent
Yes100%
No0%
Does your boss expect you to work when you're on vacation?
AnswerPercent
$2500+/mo50%
$1500 - $2500/mo0%
$1000 -$1500/mo50%
$500 -$1000/mo0%
Less than $500/mo0%
What do you estimate the cash value of your benefits to be? Healthcare, PTO, etc?

Six Flags Careers

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Overview of Candidates Interested in Six Flags on Comparably

Candidates By Department

All Industries
43%
Engineering
14%
Design
14%
Customer Support
14%
Sales
14%

Candidates By Location

Houston
14%
San Francisco
14%
Oswego
14%
San Antonio
14%
Springfield
14%
Other
29%

Frequently Asked Questions regarding Six Flags

What is Six Flags address?

Six Flags location is at 924 Avenue J East

Who is the CEO of Six Flags?

Six Flags CEO is Michael Spanos, their score by employees is 68

What is Six Flags eNPS?

The eNPS for Six Flags is 8

What is the salary for DevOps in Six Flags?

DevOps average salary in the US is 120k

What are the salaries in the HR in Six Flags?

The average salaries for HR in Six Flags is 177k

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