Badger Meter, Inc. (BMI)

Water meter maker, one pattern. Read November 9, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 17, 2026. Ranked 34 of the 275 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states 2,477 employees at December 31, 2025 and describes one flow measurement business with no count by function, so the whole workforce is read at the instruments group by description.

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: 36% now, 49% at the end of 2027, 53% at the end of 2028, 54% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 54% desk work, 18% people work and 28% 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 46% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 47% becomes checking a model's work and 5% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

2,477 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated; the excerpt gives no count by country.

The filing: “The Company and its subsidiaries employed 2,477 persons at December 31, 2025.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 2,477 employees at December 31, 2025, up from 2,210; 108 covered by a collective bargaining agreement with District 10 of the International Association of Machinists through October 2028; regrettable turnover 5.7% in 2025; over 95% took the engagement survey; women 49% of manufacturing employees.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments 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. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.

• Medtronic plc (MDT, 95,000 employees)33% now, 46% by 2028
• Emerson Electric Co. (EMR, 71,000 employees)36% now, 51% by 2028
• Danaher Corporation (DHR, 60,000 employees)34% now, 48% by 2028
• GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. (GEHC, 54,000 employees)37% now, 53% by 2028
• L3Harris Technologies, Inc. (LHX, 45,000 employees)35% now, 51% by 2028
• Rockwell Automation, Inc. (ROK, 26,000 employees)42% now, 61% by 2028
• Garmin Ltd. (GRMN, 23,000 employees)36% now, 53% by 2028
• AMETEK, Inc. (AME, 22,500 employees)32% now, 45% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

10 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says it uses artificial intelligence occasionally in its business and products and may incorporate AI into products, services and operations, and names AI as intensifying cybersecurity risks.

• “The development and adoption of artificial intelligence technologies intensifies these risks and may give rise to new tools for unauthorized parties to target our systems.”
• “We use artificial intelligence occasionally in our business and in our products, and challenges with properly managing its use could result in reputational harm, competitive disadvantages, and adverse impacts to our results of operations, while also exposing us to potential legal or regulatory actions that could harm our business.”
• “We may incorporate artificial intelligence technologies into our products, services and operations.”
• “We may also leverage artificial intelligence, including generative artificial intelligence and machine learning, in our product development, operations and software programming to drive innovation and enhance efficiency.”
• “We face risks of competitive disadvantage if our competitors more effectively use artificial intelligence to drive internal efficiencies or create new or enhanced products or services that we are unable to compete against.”

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 20231median 1
• Fiscal 202410median 4
• Fiscal 202510median 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.

Limits of this reading

• The U.S. share is not stated.
• No count by function; one pattern by description (c); the data service's segment table (Software as a Service 100%) is not the filing's business and was not used.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-054739, 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.