EMPLOYMENT TYPE MIX · DOL LCA DATA

Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC H-1B New Employment

Of Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC's 404 certified H-1B filings with a stated employment type (FY2022–2026), 30.2% are new employment at a median of $111K/year. The rest are extensions, transfers and amendments for workers already sponsored.

30.2%
New Employment
122
New-Hire Filings
$111K
Median, New Hires
$131K
Median, Renewals

Is Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC Hiring New H-1B Workers?

Yes. At 30.2%, Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC files a high share of genuinely new H-1B employment, so a meaningful part of its sponsorship goes to people it has not sponsored before. That is the population an outside applicant joins.

Employment Type Breakdown at Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC

New employmentA worker not already on H-1B with this employer, the route in from outside
122 filings · 30.2%
Continuation / extensionExtending an existing H-1B for someone already on staff
64 filings · 15.8%
Change of employerTaking on a worker who already holds H-1B elsewhere
106 filings · 26.2%
Amended petitionChanging the terms of an existing petition, such as a new work site
51 filings · 12.6%
Change at same employerA material change to the same worker's existing role
61 filings · 15.1%
Concurrent employmentA second, simultaneous H-1B alongside another employer
0 filings · 0%

Bars are scaled to this employer's largest category, not to 100%. Percentages are of Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC's 404 certified filings that state an employment type. A small number of filings tick more than one box, so the shares can total slightly above 100%.

Is That Share Rising or Falling?

FY2022
54.8% of 42
FY2023
0% of 27
FY2024
34.3% of 169
FY2025
28.9% of 142
FY2026
0% of 24

New-employment share per fiscal year, each against that year's filings with a stated type. Bars are scaled to this employer's peak year.

What Roles Is Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC Hiring Into?

Job titles on Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC's new-employment filings specifically, which is what it is actually growing rather than merely maintaining.

RoleNew-Hire FilingsMedian Wage
Biochemists and Biophysicists30$102K
Data Scientists18$105K
Chemists16$80K
Biostatisticians15$111K
Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists10$111K
Epidemiologists7$100K
Statisticians7$111K
Chemical Engineers5$100K

Why This Number Matters

Total sponsorship volume is the figure most job boards quote, and on its own it is misleading. An employer filing thousands of petitions a year can be filing almost all of them to extend people it sponsored years ago, which tells an outside applicant very little about their odds.

The new-employment share separates the two. It is the employer's own checkbox on the Labor Condition Application, not an estimate, and it identifies the filings that represent someone entering the company rather than staying in it.

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Counted from US Department of Labor LCA disclosure files (FY2022–2026) for certified petitions filed by Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC with annual wages between $30K and $1M, combining 5 legal-name spellings DOL records for this employer. Shares are of the 404 filings that tick at least one employment-type box; the remaining 23.5% of Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC's 528 certified filings state no type and are excluded rather than counted as renewals. A certified LCA is a step toward an H-1B petition, not an approved visa.