The Buckle, Inc. (BKE)
Clothing stores, 8,000 teammates, 64% part-time. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending January 31, 2026, filed April 1, 2026. Ranked 29 of the 184 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
25%
End of 2028
33%
Employees, annual report
8,000
Leading staffing pattern
Clothing and Clothing Accessories Retailers
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now25%
- End of 202731%
- End of 202833%
- End of 203034%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 66%
- Becomes checking a model's work 20%
- Handed over with lighter checks 12%
A clothing retailer whose filing counts 8,000 teammates with 700 at its corporate offices and distribution center, so the stores lead and the counted corporate staff take management of companies.
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: 25% now, 31% at the end of 2027, 33% at the end of 2028, 34% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 34% desk work, 27% people work and 39% 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 66% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 20% becomes checking a model's work and 12% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
8,000 employees as of January 31, 2026 (stated). The filing describes only U.S. stores, so the U.S. share is recorded as 1 with a flag; no count by country is stated.
The filing: “As of January 31, 2026, the Company had approximately 8,000 teammates, of which approximately 2,900 were full-time.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Clothing and Clothing Accessories Retailers | 91% | By (a) and subtraction: about 7,300 of 8,000 teammates work in the stores after the 700 the filing counts at the corporate offices and distribution center, read at clothing retailers as American Eagle's and Abercrombie's were. |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 9% | By (a): the filing states that approximately 700 teammates were employed at the corporate offices and in the distribution center, a stated corporate count that takes the management pattern under rule 6, the distribution center inside it because the filing does not split the two. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 8,000 teammates as of January 31, 2026, about 2,900 full-time (about 64% part-time); about 700 at the corporate offices and distribution center; high turnover of store and distribution center teammates; most store teammates paid a base plus commission.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Clothing and Clothing Accessories Retailers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- TJX (TJX, 377,000 employees)24% now, 31% by 2028
- Ross Stores, Inc. (ROST, 111,000 employees)23% now, 29% by 2028
- Burlington Stores, Inc. (BURL, 83,309 employees)24% now, 31% by 2028
- The Gap, Inc. (GAP, 79,000 employees)24% now, 32% by 2028
- American Eagle Outfitters, Inc. (AEO, 45,000 employees)24% now, 30% by 2028
- Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (ANF, 43,200 employees)24% now, 30% by 2028
- Lululemon Athletica Inc. (LULU, 39,000 employees)24% now, 30% by 2028
- Urban Outfitters, Inc. (URBN, 31,000 employees)24% now, 30% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
0 sentences in the filing name AI. No sentence in the filing names AI.
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20250median 10
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-31 | 8,000 | 2026-04-01 | 10-K |
| 2025-02-01 | 8,000 | 2025-04-02 | 10-K |
| 2024-02-03 | 8,000 | 2024-04-03 | 10-K |
| 2023-01-28 | 9,100 | 2023-03-29 | 10-K |
| 2022-01-29 | 8,300 | 2022-03-30 | 10-K |
| 2021-01-30 | 7,200 | 2021-03-31 | 10-K |
| 2020-02-01 | 7,000 | 2020-04-01 | 10-K |
| 2019-02-02 | 7,400 | 2019-04-03 | 10-K |
| 2018-02-03 | 7,400 | 2018-04-04 | 10-K |
| 2017-01-28 | 8,600 | 2017-03-29 | 10-K |
| 2016-01-30 | 8,600 | 2016-03-30 | 10-K |
| 2015-01-31 | 8,900 | 2015-04-01 | 10-K |
| 2014-02-01 | 8,800 | 2014-04-02 | 10-K |
| 2013-02-02 | 8,600 | 2013-04-03 | 10-K |
| 2012-01-28 | 8,600 | 2012-03-28 | 10-K |
| 2011-01-29 | 7,600 | 2011-03-30 | 10-K |
| 2010-01-30 | 7,000 | 2010-03-31 | 10-K |
| 2009-01-31 | 8,225 | 2009-04-01 | 10-K |
| 2008-02-02 | 6,700 | 2008-04-16 | 10-K |
| 2007-02-03 | 6,100 | 2007-04-19 | 10-K |
| 2006-02-28 | 6,500 | 2006-04-13 | 10-K |
| 2005-01-29 | 6,100 | 2005-04-25 | 10-K |
| 2004-01-31 | 5,800 | 2004-04-14 | 10-K |
| 2003-02-01 | 5,800 | 2003-04-21 | 10-K |
| 2002-02-02 | 5,500 | 2002-04-26 | 10-K |
| 2001-02-03 | 5,500 | 2001-04-23 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-01-29 | 5,500 | 2000-04-28 | 10-K405 |
| 1999-01-30 | 4,800 | 1999-04-29 | 10-K |
| 1998-01-31 | 4,000 | 1998-04-30 | 10-K405 |
| 1997-02-01 | 3,300 | 1997-05-01 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The U.S. share is recorded as 1 because the filing describes only U.S. stores; it states no count by country.
- The 700 at the corporate offices and distribution center are counted together, so the distribution center's people sit inside the management pattern.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000885245-26-000012, 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.
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Questions about this company
- How much of The Buckle, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 25% now and 33% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce The Buckle, Inc.'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 The Buckle, Inc. employ?
- 8,000 as of January 31, 2026, as its annual report for the period ending January 31, 2026 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up The Buckle, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Clothing and Clothing Accessories Retailers; by those patterns the work is about 34% desk work, 27% people work and 39% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does The Buckle, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 0 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0 sentences, year by year. 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 19, 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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