EMCOR Group, Inc. (EME)
Electrical and mechanical contractor, 44,000, 62% union. Read October 2, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 26, 2026. Ranked 25 of the 47 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
17%
End of 2028
27%
Employees, annual report
44,000
Leading staffing pattern
Building Equipment Contractors
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now17%
- End of 202725%
- End of 202827%
- End of 203027%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 71%
- Becomes checking a model's work 22%
- Handed over with lighter checks 6%
The filing states the total, that all are in the U.S. and the union share, nothing by segment, so the contractor and facilities shares are by revenue and description (c).
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, 25% at the end of 2027, 27% at the end of 2028, 27% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 27% desk work, 13% people work and 59% 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 71% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 22% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
44,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). All employees are located within the United States.
The filing: “At December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 44,000 people, all of whom were located within the United States.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Building Equipment Contractors | 90% | Mechanical construction (41% of revenue) and electrical construction (30%) with the mobile mechanical services in building services; the filing itself benchmarks against NAICS 2382 and states no count by segment, so the share is by revenue and description (c). |
| Facilities Support Services | 10% | Site-based facilities services within Building Services (18% of revenue in the U.S. and 3% in the U.K.) and Industrial Services (8%); by description (c), with no count stated. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 44,000 people, all in the United States; about 62% represented by unions under about 450 collective bargaining agreements; nearly 100 million hours worked in 2025 with a Total Recordable Incident Rate just under 1.0.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Building Equipment Contractors, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Johnson Controls International plc (JCI, 87,000 employees)18% now, 31% by 2028
- Otis Worldwide Corporation (OTIS, 72,000 employees)18% now, 30% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
6 sentences in the filing name AI. Six sentences: the emergence of AI and the expansion of data centers as drivers of demand for electrical and mechanical construction, and capital spending on data center infrastructure for AI increasing demand for its services.
- “The electrical and mechanical construction services industry has experienced growth principally due to the increased content, complexity, and sophistication of electrical and mechanical systems resulting, in part, from growth in digital processing, cloud computing, data storage, and the emergence of artificial intelligence ("AI").”
- “The demand for these services is typically driven by non-residential construction and renovation activity and, in recent years, has benefited from the expansion of data centers to power AI and cloud computing, the re-shoring of the supply chain, the need for additional high-tech manufacturing facilities, and the energy transition/expansion throughout the United States.”
- “For example, capital spending on data center infrastructure to support cloud storage and artificial intelligence ("AI") is rapidly expanding, which has increased demand for our services in recent years.”
- “Threats are continually evolving and threat actors may adopt new or different means of breaching our information technology systems and data, including the potential use of AI tools to engage in automated, targeted, and coordinated attacks.”
- “We may also utilize new information technology tools, including AI tools, in certain business functions, and such tools could be subject to malfunction, security vulnerabilities, or algorithmic flaws (including AI generation of false or biased information).”
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 20234median 1
- Fiscal 20245median 4
- Fiscal 20256median 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 | 44,000 | 2026-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 40,400 | 2025-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 38,300 | 2024-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 35,500 | 2023-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 34,000 | 2022-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 33,000 | 2021-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 36,000 | 2020-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 33,000 | 2019-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 32,000 | 2018-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 31,000 | 2017-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 29,000 | 2016-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 27,000 | 2015-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 27,000 | 2014-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 26,000 | 2013-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 25,000 | 2012-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 24,000 | 2011-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 25,000 | 2010-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 28,000 | 2009-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 29,000 | 2008-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 27,000 | 2007-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 26,000 | 2006-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 26,000 | 2005-03-09 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 26,000 | 2004-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 26,000 | 2003-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 20,000 | 2002-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 22,000 | 2001-02-20 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 20,000 | 2000-02-23 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 14,000 | 1998-02-26 | 10-K405 |
| 1996-12-31 | 12,000 | 1997-03-03 | 10-K |
| 1995-12-31 | 12,000 | 1996-03-13 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by segment: the construction share and the site-based facilities share are by revenue and description (c).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000105634-26-000025, 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 EMCOR Group, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 17% now and 27% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce EMCOR Group, 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 EMCOR Group, Inc. employ?
- 44,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up EMCOR Group, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Building Equipment Contractors; by those patterns the work is about 27% desk work, 13% people work and 59% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does EMCOR Group, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 6 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 4, 5 and 6 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 2, 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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