The Workforce AI Index · Industrials
Boeing (BA)
An aerospace manufacturer with a stated U.S. share. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2025-12-31, filed 2026-01-30. Ranked 20 of the 28 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.
The filing states the total, the share abroad and the union shares but nothing by segment, so the manufacturing and services patterns follow the description of its businesses.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 16% now, 34% at the end of 2027, 43% at the end of 2028, 46% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 47% desk work, 13% people work and 40% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 49% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 43% becomes checking a model's work and 4% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
182,000 employees as of 2025-12-31 (stated). 14% of the workforce is located outside the U.S.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, Boeing's total workforce was approximately 182,000 with 14% located outside of the U.S.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing | 90% | By (c): the filing states the total and the union shares but no headcount by segment, and describes commercial airplanes and defense, space and security as its businesses, so most of the workforce is read into the aerospace manufacturing pattern by description, with the engineering and administrative staff of a manufacturer inside it. |
| Support Activities for Air Transportation | 10% | By (c): the Global Services segment is described as maintenance, parts, modifications and training for airline and government customers, without a headcount, so a share is read into the air transportation support pattern by description. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 182,000 in the total workforce, 14% outside the U.S.; about 72,000 union members, with the IAM representing 25% of the total workforce under its principal agreements; about 5.8 million hours of learning in 2025 and about 12,000 employees using tuition assistance.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- RTX (RTX, 180,000 employees)16% now, 44% by 2028
- Lockheed Martin (LMT, 123,000 employees)16% now, 47% by 2028
- Honeywell International Inc. (HON, 101,000 employees)17% now, 45% by 2028
- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC, 95,000 employees)16% now, 46% by 2028
- GE Aerospace (GE, 57,000 employees)16% now, 45% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
1 sentences in the filing name AI. AI appears once, as one of the advanced forms of automation used in cyberattacks, in the risk factors; the human capital section does not mention it.
- “In addition, the techniques used in cyberattacks evolve rapidly, including from emerging technologies, such as advanced forms of automation and artificial intelligence.”
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 182,000 | 2026-01-30 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 172,000 | 2025-02-03 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 171,000 | 2024-01-31 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 156,000 | 2023-01-27 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 142,000 | 2022-01-31 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 141,000 | 2021-02-01 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 161,100 | 2020-01-31 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 153,000 | 2019-02-08 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 140,800 | 2018-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 150,500 | 2017-02-08 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 161,400 | 2016-02-10 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 165,500 | 2015-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 168,400 | 2014-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 174,400 | 2013-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 171,700 | 2012-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 160,500 | 2011-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 157,100 | 2010-02-08 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 162,200 | 2009-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 159,300 | 2008-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 154,000 | 2007-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 153,000 | 2006-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 159,000 | 2005-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 157,000 | 2004-03-05 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 166,000 | 2003-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 188,000 | 2002-03-08 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 198,000 | 2001-03-09 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 195,000 | 2000-03-08 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-31 | 227,000 | 1999-03-05 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 239,000 | 1998-03-04 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-31 | 143,000 | 1997-03-10 | 10-K |
| 1995-12-31 | 105,000 | 1996-03-13 | 10-K |
| 1994-12-31 | 115,000 | 1995-03-09 | 10-K |
| 1993-12-31 | 123,000 | 1994-03-17 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No headcount by segment is stated; both pattern shares follow the business description (c).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-004357, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
Questions about this company
- How much of Boeing's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 16% now and 43% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Boeing's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Boeing employ?
- 182,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 86% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Boeing's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 47% desk work, 13% people work and 40% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Boeing's annual report say about AI?
- 1 sentence in the filing name AI. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 1, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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