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Bayer is a life science company working in pharmaceuticals, consumer health and crop science, with 89,237 employees worldwide at December 31, 2025. Its regional overview places the group in 80 countries in 2025. The mission it states is "Health for all, Hunger for none."
Bayer AG is headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany, and runs three divisions: Crop Science, Pharmaceuticals and Consumer Health. Crop Science sells seeds and crop protection products to farmers. Pharmaceuticals covers prescription medicines, from research through manufacturing and marketing. Consumer Health sells self-care products that need no prescription. In full-time equivalents, the group had 88,078 employees at December 31, 2025, down 5.1% from 92,815 a year earlier. The annual report names Germany and the US as its two countries of significant employment. By headcount at December 31, 2025, Germany had 19,600 employees and the US 17,455. The other 52,182, about 58% of the total, worked elsewhere.
St. Louis is the busiest US worksite in H-1B labor condition applications (LCAs). Bayer US LLC submitted 55 LCAs in calendar 2025, and no single city reached 25 filings. Both cities below are shown because the careers site also posted jobs there on October 13, 2026:
Bayer CropScience LP, a separate employer name, adds 19 filings for calendar 2025, 8 of them for St. Louis roles.
The careers site showed 617 open jobs on October 13, 2026. US postings that day named Chesterfield, Missouri, Myerstown, Pennsylvania, Muscatine, Iowa, Soda Springs, Idaho, Rogers, Arkansas, Fort Worth, Texas, and Washington, DC, plus residence-based sales roles. Senior openings that day sat in Taguig, Bangalore, Kuala Lumpur, Tokyo, Boissay, Gdansk and Wuppertal-Elberfeld.
Software and data roles lead the 55 Bayer US LLC filings for calendar 2025, though no title appears more than three times. Senior Software Engineer and Staff Software Engineer have 3 filings each. Five titles have 2 each: Associate Data Scientist, DevOps Engineer, Senior Data Scientist, Senior Staff Data Engineer and Staff Data Engineer. The other 39 filings carry a title only once, from API Solution Architect and Principal Engineer to Scientist II, Senior Manager Digital Procurement and Director Marketing Nubeqa.
Expert and Senior Expert sat alongside Intern, Senior Associate, Senior Scientist, Senior Principal and Product Specialist in openings on October 13, 2026. Search filters that day add four career levels: Student, Graduate, Job Starter and Professional.
Crop Science is the largest division by sales, with EUR 21,622 million of EUR 45,575 million in group sales in 2025. Pharmaceuticals followed at EUR 17,829 million and Consumer Health at EUR 5,802 million. Research and development expenses were EUR 5,769 million in 2025, down 7.1% from EUR 6,209 million in 2024. The careers site offered 28 functional areas as job filters on October 13, 2026. They range from Biological R&D and Clinical Development & Operations to Market Access, Procurement, Quality and Gastronomy.
Europe, the Middle East and Africa held 39,258 employees at December 31, 2025. Asia/Pacific had 19,265, North America 18,710 and Latin America 12,004. Bayer US LLC filings went from 72 in calendar 2023 to 74 in 2024 and 55 in 2025.
A notice dated July 22, 2026 to the Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations covers Bayer Research and Development Services LLC. It lists 62 affected employees of 133 full-time staff at the Lower Kunia site on Oahu, and 14 of 144 at the Kihei site on Maui. Separations begin on or after September 25, 2026 and run through December 31, 2026.
The careers pages list compressed work weeks, job sharing, annual hours, remote work and coworking as options.