Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. (CALM)
Egg producer, 4,292 in operations, all U.S. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending May 30, 2026, filed July 22, 2026. Ranked 64 of the 76 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
14%
End of 2028
24%
Employees, annual report
4,909
Leading staffing pattern
Support Activities for Animal Production
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now14%
- End of 202721%
- End of 202824%
- End of 203025%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 69%
- Becomes checking a model's work 22%
- Handed over with lighter checks 8%
The filing counts 4,292 in operations and marketing and 617 administrative employees, so the administrative share is counted and the operations count is split between farms and plants 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: 14% now, 21% at the end of 2027, 24% at the end of 2028, 25% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 25% desk work, 11% people work and 63% 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 69% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 22% becomes checking a model's work and 8% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
4,909 employees as of May 30, 2026 (stated). The filing describes egg production and processing facilities in the United States only (recorded as 1, flagged).
The filing: “As of May 30, 2026, we had 4,909 employees, of whom 4,292 worked in operations and marketing, and 617, including our executive officers, were administrative employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Support Activities for Animal Production | 55% | The filing counts 4,292 employees in operations and marketing (a); the layer farms, pullet operations and feed mills are farm work, read at support activities for animal production by description (c) with a flag, as Smithfield's hog production is. |
| Other Food Manufacturing | 32% | The operations count (a) also covers the egg grading, packing and egg products plants, food manufacturing by description (c); no count by kind of facility. |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 13% | The filing counts 617 administrative employees including its executive officers (a), a stated administrative count under rule 6. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 4,909 employees, 4,292 in operations and marketing and 617 administrative; about 3% part-time; 40 under a collective bargaining agreement; 1,943 average monthly contingent workers from agencies and contractors, not counted; the headcount rose from 3,067 two years earlier.
What the filing says about AI
0 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in no sentence.
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-30 | 4,909 | 2026-07-22 | 10-K |
| 2024-06-01 | 3,067 | 2024-07-23 | 10-K |
| 2023-06-03 | 2,976 | 2023-07-25 | 10-K |
| 2022-05-28 | 2,985 | 2022-07-19 | 10-K |
| 2021-05-29 | 3,286 | 2021-07-19 | 10-K |
| 2020-05-30 | 3,636 | 2020-07-20 | 10-K |
| 2019-06-01 | 3,490 | 2019-07-22 | 10-K |
| 2018-06-02 | 3,573 | 2018-07-23 | 10-K |
| 2017-06-03 | 3,578 | 2017-07-24 | 10-K |
| 2016-05-28 | 3,277 | 2016-07-18 | 10-K |
| 2015-05-30 | 2,872 | 2015-07-20 | 10-K |
| 2014-05-31 | 2,645 | 2014-07-28 | 10-K |
| 2013-06-01 | 2,479 | 2013-08-05 | 10-K |
| 2012-06-02 | 2,175 | 2012-08-06 | 10-K |
| 2011-05-28 | 2,100 | 2011-08-04 | 10-K |
| 2010-05-29 | 1,950 | 2010-08-02 | 10-K |
| 2009-05-30 | 2,100 | 2009-08-11 | 10-K |
| 2008-05-31 | 1,800 | 2008-08-05 | 10-K |
| 2007-06-02 | 1,600 | 2007-08-16 | 10-K |
| 2006-06-03 | 1,650 | 2006-08-17 | 10-K |
| 2005-05-28 | 1,400 | 2005-08-11 | 10-K |
| 2004-05-29 | 1,520 | 2004-08-18 | 10-K |
| 2003-05-31 | 1,534 | 2003-08-12 | 10-K |
| 2002-06-01 | 1,530 | 2002-08-16 | 10-K |
| 2001-06-02 | 1,750 | 2001-08-13 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-06-03 | 1,840 | 2000-08-21 | 10-K |
| 1999-05-29 | 1,635 | 1999-08-25 | 10-K |
| 1998-05-30 | 1,575 | 1998-08-27 | 10-K |
| 1997-05-31 | 1,500 | 1997-08-26 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- Farm work is outside the BLS survey, so the layer and pullet operations are read at the support activities pattern with this flag.
- The 1,943 average monthly contingent workers are not counted (rule 8).
- The operations count is split between farm work and the processing plants by description.
- The U.S. share is recorded as 1 because the filing describes U.S. facilities only; it states no count by country.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001562762-26-000080, 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 Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 14% now and 24% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Cal-Maine Foods, 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 Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. employ?
- 4,909 as of May 30, 2026, as its annual report for the period ending May 30, 2026 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Cal-Maine Foods, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Support Activities for Animal Production; by those patterns the work is about 25% desk work, 11% people work and 63% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Cal-Maine Foods, 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 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 20, 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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