Byline: Renee Lawson, labor-market reporter covering regional banks and financial-services work for 12 yearsLast reviewed: June 28, 2026 FirstMerchants is best understood as First Merchants Corporation and First Merchants Bank, a regional banking employer with more than 111 banking centers and $21.1 billion in assets as of March 31, 2026. The cleanest employment read is
Byline: Meredith Cole, business journalist covering regional banks, compensation, and workforce filings for 12 yearsLast reviewed: June 28, 2026 FirstMerchants is best understood as First Merchants Corporation and First Merchants Bank, a regional banking employer whose 2025 Form 10-K reported 2,086 full-time equivalent employees. The job story is shaped by three forces: BLS May 2024
Byline: Graham Ellis, labor reporter covering regional banks and financial-services employers for 12 yearsLast reviewed: June 28, 2026 FirstMerchants is best understood as First Merchants Corporation and First Merchants Bank, a regional banking employer whose 2025 Form 10-K reported 2,086 full-time equivalent employees. The retention story is sharper than the salary story: the company reported
Byline: Adrian Miles, labor-market reporter covering banks, insurance, and regional employers for 11 yearsLast reviewed: June 28, 2026 FirstMerchants is best understood as First Merchants Corporation and First Merchants Bank, a regional banking employer whose 2025 Form 10-K reported 2,086 full-time equivalent employees. The hiring story sits between three data points: BLS May 2024 teller
Byline: Nolan Pierce, labor-market reporter covering banking and financial-services employment for 10 yearsLast reviewed: June 28, 2026 FirstMerchants is best read as First Merchants Corporation and First Merchants Bank, a regional banking employer whose 2025 Form 10-K workforce data reported 2,086 full-time equivalent employees. The better comparison is not “bank job versus bank job.” BLS
Byline: Raymond Hale, business journalist and compensation-data editor with 13 years covering regional banks and labor filingsLast reviewed: June 28, 2026 FirstMerchants pay data only makes sense when the source is named. First Merchants’ 2025 Form 10-K reported 2,086 full-time equivalent employees and 18 percent turnover, while BLS May 2024 data reported a $39,340 median
Byline: Julia Renner, labor and business reporter covering regional banks and workplace data for 12 yearsLast reviewed: June 28, 2026 FirstMerchants is best understood as First Merchants Corporation and First Merchants Bank, a regional-bank employer whose 2025 Form 10-K reported 2,086 full-time equivalent employees. The same filing reported 18 percent turnover, 65 percent “highly engaged”
Byline: Andrea Sloan, compensation analyst and business reporter with 11 years covering banking-sector pay and workforce filingsLast reviewed: June 28, 2026 FirstMerchants is best read as First Merchants Corporation and First Merchants Bank, a regional banking employer whose 2025 Form 10-K reported 2,086 full-time equivalent employees as of December 31, 2025. Public pay data does
Byline: Daniel Mercer, compensation and benefits analyst with 10 years reviewing bank, insurance, and financial-services employment dataLast reviewed: June 28, 2026 FirstMerchants is best read as First Merchants Corporation and First Merchants Bank, a regional-bank employer with 2,086 full-time equivalent employees reported in its 2025 Annual Report on Form 10-K. The most concrete benefit number
Byline: Tessa Grant, compensation analyst and labor-market writer with 9 years covering banking, insurance, and financial-services rolesLast reviewed: June 28, 2026 FirstMerchants is best understood as First Merchants Corporation and First Merchants Bank, a regional banking employer with 2,086 full-time equivalent employees reported in its 2025 Form 10-K. The career ladder is not one clean