Grainger
Wholesale · Maintenance, Repair & Operations (MRO)
Has an LEITruth index ADomain protected (DMARC)
232Open roles124 posted in 30 days+41 this week
$57kMedian advertised pay$46k – $112k−9% vs market
24 daysTime to fillmedian of 357 closed rolesmarket: 31 days
$17.9BRevenue, 2025net income $1.7B+4.5% a year
Facts
as of Nov 14, 2026Grainger is a broad-line, business-to-business distributor of maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) supplies headquartered in Lake Forest, Illinois, selling safety gear, motors, ladders and janitorial goods online, through sales representatives and at branches. The company, formally W.W. Grainger, was founded in 1927, is publicly listed, operates mainly in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom, and reported 2025 revenue of $17.9 billion from more than 4.5 million customers. It hires warehouse associates and supervisors, branch sales and account managers, customer service staff, software and data engineers and product managers.
It is hiring: 232 open roles, 124 of them posted in the last 30 days.
- Headquarters
- Lake Forest, United States
- Founded
- 1927
- Employees
- 5000+estimated range
- Revenue
- $17.9B2025 · SEC
- Open roles
- 232 in 123 citiesAlion job postings
- Official records
- Wikidata Q1627894LEI 549300TWZSP6O1IH2V34SEC CIK 277135
- Website
- grainger.com
As of Nov 14, 2026, Alion lists 232 open roles at Grainger. Grainger is headquartered in Lake Forest, United States. It was founded in 1927. The median pay stated in its open roles is $57k, across 171 postings that state pay.
Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake
What the registers and the postings say about this employer.
Postings are real
Alion truth index: A
98/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
0%
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Domain and mail securitygrainger.com · Nov 14, 2026
Spoofed mail (DMARC)
Spoofed mail is rejected
Good
Who may send its mail (SPF)
Other senders soft-fail (~all)
Good
HTTPS certificate
Valid certificate · DigiCert Inc
Good
HTTPS enforced (HSTS)
Enforced, ready for browser preload
Good
Security contact (security.txt)
No security.txt
Weak
Encrypted mail delivery (MTA-STS)
No MTA-STS policy
Weak
Signed DNS (DNSSEC)
Not signed
Weak
Certificate issuers (CAA)
Any authority may issue certificates
Weak
Full employer checkScam signs in adverts, mail records, visa registers, domain history
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices The domain: its DNS records, its site's headers and certificate.
Hiring
All open roles →Hiring at full speed: most open roles are fresh.
Sales is the largest family, 24 of open roles.
124Posted in 30 days53% of open roles are fresh
7%Remote roles16 of 232
6Roles in AI3% of open roles
123Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
449 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
Some postings offer visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 16.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
Alion signals0-100
Demand98
Pay54
Your chance60
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time−100%
Sep 28This week
Open roles a week: 214 then, 0 now
Are the postings real?
A
98 / 100Grainger scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 20 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 15% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 24 days.
Ghost roles0%
Gone stale0%
Reposted15%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
What postings ask forlanguages named in open roles
Degree asked
High School Diploma 62%Bachelor's Degree 36%Associate's Degree 2%
Experience asked: 3.3 years on average, in 124 postings. 124 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Contract type
Part-Time 45Internship 23Full-Time 11Contract 1
Visa sponsorship in some rolesRelocation offered
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family
What its postings pay, by level.
$57kMedianmarket estimate $63k
$46k – $112kTypical rangeUSD a year
$300kHighest paying roleAssistant General Counsel, BOA
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked · dashed: market median $63k
$0$75k$150k$225k$300k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year
Footprint
Hiring in 123 cities in 6 countries.
123Cities
6Countries
Lake ForestBusiest site
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| Site | Type | Open roles | Hires most for | Engineering |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lake Forest United States | Headquarters | 23 | Finance, Customer Success, Administrative | 30% |
| Chicago United States | Regional office | 14 | Leadership, AI/ML, Backend | 29% |
| Green Bay United States | Support & operations | 10 | Early Careers, Leadership, Legal | 0% |
| Thornhill Canada | Regional office | 7 | Early Careers, Administrative, Analytics | 14% |
| Santa Ana United States | Support & operations | 6 | Operations, Hardware, Security | 33% |
| Minooka United States | Plant / site | 6 | Operations, Field & Service, Industrial Engineering | 0% |
| Fountain Inn United States | Plant / site | 5 | Operations, Field & Service | 0% |
| Patterson United States | Plant / site | 4 | Operations, Field & Service, Industrial Engineering | 0% |
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers
Peers
Compare →Ranked #9 by open roles among its 11 closest peers.
| # | Company | HQ | Open roles | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Genuine Parts Company | Atlanta, United States | 2,034 | 5000+ | |
| 2 | Sysco | Houston, United States | 1,751 | 5000+ | |
| 3 | Otis | Farmington, United States | 923 | 5000+ | |
| 4 | Cencora | Conshohocken, United States | 726 | 5000+ | |
| 5 | TD SYNNEX | Clearwater, United States | 617 | 5000+ | |
| 6 | Arrow Electronics | Centennial, United States | 497 | 5000+ | |
| 7 | Ferguson | Newport News, United States | 442 | 5000+ | |
| 8 | HD Supply | Atlanta, United States | 280 | 5000+ | |
| 9 | Grainger | Lake Forest, United States | 232 | 5000+ |
Source: Alion's similar-companies engine (industry segments, technologies, headquarters country, size)
Financials
Revenue of $17.9B in 2025. +4.5% on the year before. Net income $1.7B.
$17.9BRevenue2025 · +4.5%
$1.7BNet income2025 · −10.6%
Revenue by yearas filed, with the net income
Sources: SEC
Tech stack
Full chapter →Technologies named in job postings at Grainger over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
150Technologies in use
104Postings analysed
84/100Stack modernityAI adopter
Frameworks & librariesReact.js 9%Spring Boot 8%Next.js 4%Cypress 2%
Cloud & platformsPower BI 18%AWS 17%Kubernetes 14%GitHub Actions 13%
AI & MLLLM 3%Claude 2%ChatGPT 1%
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Full Grainger tech stack150 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site
Milestones
May 25, 2012
Released an app W.W. Grainger, Inc. · App Store
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press
Newsroom
Oct 12026
News · Grainger reports 96.00 percent occupancy while Grainger stock falls 2.53 percent
Grainger targets 35.00 percent earnings growth by fiscal 2029. Grainger stock costs EUR 1.93 on October 1, 2026 versus EUR 1.98, down 2.53 percent.
Sep 302026
News · mdm.com
Sep 292026
News · YahooFinance
W.W. Grainger has delivered very strong gains over the last five years, which puts a spotlight on whether the current US$1,255.69 share price is adequately supported by the cash…
Sep 282026
News · Grainger stock last trades at GBp 164.50 on September 28, 2026
Grainger last traded at GBp 164.50 on September 28, 2026, up 0.73 percent. A September 7 update reported at least 96.00 percent BTR occupancy and 3.00 percent like-for-like renta…
Aug 192026
News · oregonlive.com
Jul 162026
News · hmntl.illinois.edu
New brain architecture research from the University of Illinois uncovers the involvement of early sensory regions in decision-making, revising previous hierarchical-based assumpt…
Sources: the outlets named on each headline, each story once