Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. (CP)
Freight railroad in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 26, 2026. Ranked 167 of the 198 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
17%
End of 2028
24%
Employees, annual report
19,479
Leading staffing pattern
Rail Transportation
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now17%
- End of 202722%
- End of 202824%
- End of 203024%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 57%
- Becomes checking a model's work 36%
- Handed over with lighter checks 5%
A railway whose filing states 19,479 employees with about 75% in unions across three countries and nothing by kind of work, so the Index's Canadian union count is replaced and the whole workforce is read at rail transportation.
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: 17% now, 22% at the end of 2027, 24% at the end of 2028, 24% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 24% desk work, 8% people work and 68% 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 57% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 36% 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
19,479 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated as a share: about 4,300 unionized active employees are in the U.S., 7,000 in Canada and 3,300 in Mexico, and the data service's 34% United States is revenue.
The filing: “The total number of employees as of December 31, 2025, was 19,479, a decrease of 318 compared to 19,797 as of December 31, 2024.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Rail Transportation | 100% | By description (c): the filing describes a team of approximately 20,000 railroaders operating a Class I railway across Canada, the U.S. and Mexico under precision scheduled railroading, with counts only by union and country, so the whole workforce is read at rail transportation, as Union Pacific's and Norfolk Southern's were. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 19,479 employees (full-time, part-time or seasonal) as of December 31, 2025, down 318 from 19,797; a workforce of 19,502 including contractors and consultants; unionized employees nearly 75%, in 73 bargaining units: about 7,000 in Canada, 4,300 in the U.S., 3,300 in Mexico; FRA-reportable personal injury rate 0.92 and train accident rate 0.85.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Rail Transportation, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Union Pacific Corporation (UNP, 29,287 employees)17% now, 24% by 2028
- CSX Corporation (CSX, 23,000 employees)17% now, 24% by 2028
- Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC, 19,300 employees)17% now, 24% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 7,000 | 2026-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 19,797 | 2025-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 18,233 | 2024-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 12,570 | 2023-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 12,000 | 2022-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 12,000 | 2021-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 13,103 | 2020-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 12,770 | 2019-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 13,858 | 2018-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 14,604 | 2017-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 15,011 | 2016-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 16,999 | 2015-02-23 | 40-F |
| 2013-12-31 | 16,999 | 2014-03-05 | 40-F |
| 2012-12-31 | 14,594 | 2013-03-12 | 40-F |
| 2011-12-31 | 14,169 | 2012-03-15 | 40-F |
| 2010-12-31 | 13,879 | 2011-03-15 | 40-F |
| 2009-12-31 | 13,619 | 2010-03-19 | 40-F |
| 2008-12-31 | 15,783 | 2009-03-06 | 40-F |
| 2007-12-31 | 15,328 | 2008-03-19 | 40-F |
| 2006-12-31 | 15,327 | 2007-03-30 | 40-F |
| 2005-12-31 | 16,448 | 2006-03-22 | 40-F |
| 2004-12-31 | 16,056 | 2005-03-07 | 40-F |
| 2003-12-31 | 16,126 | 2004-03-17 | 40-F |
| 2002-12-31 | 15,427 | 2003-03-18 | 40-F |
| 2000-12-31 | not read | 2002-06-19 | 40-F |
Limits of this reading
- The Index's 7,000 is the count of Canadian unionized employees; the filing states 19,479 employees (rule 2).
- The U.S. share is not stated as a share of employees.
- Contractors and consultants (23 in the filing's workforce figure) are not counted (rule 8).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000016875-26-000008, 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 Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 17% now and 24% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd.'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 Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. employ?
- 19,479 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Rail Transportation; by those patterns the work is about 24% desk work, 8% people work and 68% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd.'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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