Counted November 8, 2026 · from employers’ own postings
Merchandising Manager: $95K median posted pay.
From 13 salary bands employers posted on 26 open merchandising manager roles in retail. Never an estimate.
The ladder, by level
What each rung pays.
| Level | Open roles | Median posted band | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|
| Management | 26 | $95K | — |
Levels as the postings name them. A rung shows a median only where eight or more postings at that level carried a band.
Who is hiring
The employers with the most open.
| Employer | Open roles | Entry level |
|---|---|---|
| Michaels Companies Inc | 5 | — |
| Quince | 4 | — |
| Fivebelow | 3 | — |
| Knitwellgroup | 2 | — |
| Red Bull | 2 | — |
| udemy | 1 | — |
| Ernest | 1 | — |
| AMIRI | 1 | — |
| Kontoor Brands, Inc. Kontoor Brands | 1 | — |
| AIFT | 1 | — |
Counted from employers’ own job boards. The ten with the most open merchandising manager roles right now.
The skills, as the postings name them
What these postings ask for.
| Skill | Postings | At entry |
|---|---|---|
| Visual Merchandising | 26 | — |
| Store Management | 8 | — |
| Process Documentation | 8 | — |
| Inventory Control | 8 | — |
| Service Standards | 7 | — |
| Loss Prevention | 5 | — |
| Point of Sale Systems | 5 | — |
| Framing | 5 | — |
| Telehealth | 5 | — |
| Supply Chain Coordination | 4 | — |
Where the work is
0% of these roles are remote.
- Remote0%0 roles
- Hybrid0%0 roles
- On site69%18 roles
- Not stated31%8 roles
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How this was counted
Every figure is counted from 26 open postings read from employers’ own job boards on November 8, 2026, and recounted every night. Pay is the band the employer posted — never an estimate, never a model — and 13 of these postings carried one. Titles are grouped by the words the postings use, with levels, shifts and schedules removed, so “Senior Merchandising Manager (Nights)” counts here too. 100% of roles with this title sit in retail, which is why this page belongs to that career. A title gets a page only where twenty-five or more roles are open, eight or more of them posted a band, three or more employers are hiring for it and four in five of its postings sit in one career, so no page here is a guess.