Target Posted 327 New Roles This Week — More Than Half Its 600 Open Listings

Target added 327 new postings this week across the employer boards we track — the largest single-employer count in our data for the period. Its total open listings stand at 600. That means roughly 55% of everything Target currently has open went up in the last seven days.

That ratio is the more interesting number. A big open-roles total can be old inventory; a big new-roles number against a modest total means the board turned over fast.

Where Target sits among this week's most active employers

Target led on new postings, but not on total open roles. Cleveland Clinic added 294 new listings and carries 911 open — the largest open pool in the top ten. NVIDIA added 176 against 832 open, the slowest turnover of the group at about 21%.

By the same new-versus-open measure, two employers churned even harder than Target this week: Marriott International at 231 new against 243 open, and Albertsons at 123 new against 153 open. Both are effectively fresh boards. Merck was close to Target's mark at 171 new against 347 open.

The rest of the top ten: Tyson Foods (220 new, 595 open), Accenture (169 new, 593 open), Medtronic (151 new, 380 open), and SAP (115 new, 397 open).

What we can't tell you

Be clear about the limits here. Our occupation and skills breakdowns came back empty for this period, so we have no employer-level view of what kinds of roles Target posted — no split between store, distribution, or corporate work, and no title-level detail. We are not going to guess at it. If you want to see the actual listings, they sit on the Target employer page and in job search.

We also can't attribute state-level activity to any single employer from this packet. What we can say is what the state data shows on its own. Georgia went from 15 new roles in the prior week to 90 this week, and Florida from 35 to 127, the two sharpest proportional jumps among the 12 states with the most new roles. California led on volume with 480 new (up from 232), followed by New York at 324 (up from 227) and Texas at 209 (up from 65). Minnesota went from 31 to 48. Whether any of that overlaps with Target's 327 is not something this data resolves.

The backdrop

Across all boards we track: 57,025 open listings from 691 employers hiring, with 9,941 roles opened in the last seven days and 8,609 closed in the same stretch. More roles opened than closed. Only 5% of new postings were remote.

On the like-for-like comparison basis (boards we were already tracking before the comparison window began, so newly onboarded boards don't read as hiring booms), new roles came in at 3,033 this week against 1,593 the prior week. That's the cleanest week-over-week signal we have, and it points up.

Salary context, for what it covers: employer-posted ranges annualized to USD show Machine Learning Engineer at a $280,000 median across 115 listings and Engineering Manager at $279,500 across 234. The deepest pool is Software Engineer at $240,000 across 1,276 listings. None of these figures are broken out by employer, so they say nothing specific about Target.

This is observation of what showed up on the boards, not a judgment about any employer. Details on collection are on how we crawl employer boards.

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.

Correction, October 19, 2026: The pay medians in this post were calculated from the top of each posted pay range rather than its midpoint, which is the basis our occupation pages use. Midpoint medians are typically 10% to 17% lower than the figures shown here.