Merck Posted 368 Roles in Seven Days — 63% of Its Open Board

Nearly two-thirds of Merck's currently open listings on the boards we track went up in the last seven days. The company posted 368 new roles this week against an open total of 584 — the largest new-role count of any employer we crawled, and a ratio that says most of what's live right now is fresh.

That 368 is about 4.1% of the 8,929 new roles we recorded across all tracked boards in the last seven days. For a single employer out of 686 hiring, that's a large slice.

How Merck compares to the rest of the top ten

No other employer added more this week. U.S. Bank was second with 315 new, Target third with 301, then Citigroup at 289 and Meijer at 269. Stryker Corporation added 262, Ranger Boats 237, Jabil 234, JLL 230 and Tyson Foods 223.

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Merck's 584 open roles are mid-pack — U.S. Bank carries 1,007, Stryker 749, Jabil 734, Ranger Boats 716. What separates Merck is how much of its board turned over. At 368 new out of 584 open, 63% of Merck's live listings are seven days old or less. Among the ten busiest employers, only JLL ran hotter (230 of 295 open, 78%). At the other end, U.S. Bank's 315 new represent 31% of its much bigger open board, and Jabil's 234 work out to 32%.

A high new-to-open ratio can mean a genuine hiring push, a batch re-post, or a board that clears quickly. Our crawl records what's posted, not why. Across all tracked boards this week we logged 8,249 closed roles against 8,929 new ones. Closures nearly kept pace with additions site-wide, so a fresh-looking board isn't automatically a growing one.

The week in context

Hiring activity across the boards we track dipped: 8,929 new roles this week against 9,698 the prior week, down 8%. That comparison covers only boards we were already crawling before the window opened, so newly onboarded employers don't inflate the trend. Total open listings stand at 57,521 across 686 employers, with remote roles at 4% of new postings.

Merck's week landed inside a slower week overall, and 368 new roles from one employer is a standalone number, not a byproduct of rising volume.

If you want to look at the listings themselves, they're on the Merck board and in Job search. For how these counts are gathered, see how we crawl employer boards. Everything here describes the employer job boards Career App tracks — not the wider labor market.

Correction, October 11, 2026: An earlier version of this post counted every closed listing rather than closed roles, and compared each week with the one before using only roles still open, which overstated closures and growth. The figures above have been recomputed, and comparisons the data cannot yet support have been removed.