The Workforce AI Index · Industrials
GE Aerospace (GE)
Jet engine maker, one pattern. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2025-12-31, filed 2026-01-29. Ranked 24 of the 28 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.
The filing counts 57,000 people with 30,000 in the United States in one aerospace business, so one pattern carries the workforce (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: 16% now, 35% at the end of 2027, 45% at the end of 2028, 49% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 49% desk work, 13% people work and 38% 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 47% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 45% becomes checking a model's work and 4% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
57,000 employees as of 2025-12-31 (stated). The filing counts approximately 30,000 of 57,000 people in the United States.
The filing: “At December 31, 2025, GE Aerospace and consolidated affiliates employed approximately 57,000 people, of whom approximately 30,000 were employed in the United States.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing | 100% | By description (c): jet engines and their services for commercial and defense customers, one business after the energy and healthcare separations, with no count by segment. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 57,000 people, 30,000 in the United States, up from 53,000; about 3,800 union-represented manufacturing and service employees in the U.S.; works councils and trade unions in Europe.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Aerospace Product and Parts 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.
- Boeing (BA, 182,000 employees)16% now, 43% by 2028
- RTX (RTX, 180,000 employees)16% now, 44% by 2028
- Lockheed Martin (LMT, 123,000 employees)16% now, 47% by 2028
- Honeywell International Inc. (HON, 101,000 employees)17% now, 45% by 2028
- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC, 95,000 employees)16% now, 46% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
3 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in 3 sentences, as risk: its growing use of AI and machine learning, AI used in cyber attacks, and AI among the areas of regulation.
- “In addition, our use of emerging and evolving technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, which we expect to continue to increase over time, presents business, reputational and legal and compliance risks, including risks related to data sourcing, design flaws, integration issues, security threats, privacy protections and the ability to develop sufficient protection measures.”
- “The risks in this area continue to grow, and we expect cyberattacks will continue to accelerate on a global basis in frequency and impact as threat actors increasingly use artificial intelligence and other techniques to circumvent security controls, evade detection and remove forensic evidence.”
- “Other legislative and regulatory areas of significance for our business that U.S. and non-U.S. governments have focused and continue to focus on include cybersecurity, data privacy and sovereignty, artificial intelligence, anti-corruption, competition law, public procurement law, compliance with complex trade controls and economic sanctions laws, technical regulations or local content requireme...”
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 | 57,000 | 2026-01-29 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 53,000 | 2025-02-03 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 125,000 | 2024-02-02 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 172,000 | 2023-02-10 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 168,000 | 2022-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 174,000 | 2021-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 205,000 | 2020-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 283,000 | 2019-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 313,000 | 2018-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 295,000 | 2017-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 333,000 | 2016-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2015-02-27 | 305,000 | 2015-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 307,000 | 2014-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 305,000 | 2013-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 301,000 | 2012-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 287,000 | 2011-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 304,000 | 2010-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 323,000 | 2009-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 327,000 | 2008-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 319,000 | 2007-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 316,000 | 2006-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 307,000 | 2005-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 305,000 | 2004-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 315,000 | 2003-03-07 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 310,000 | 2002-03-08 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-12-31 | 313,000 | 2001-03-23 | 10-K |
| 1994-12-31 | 216,000 | 1995-03-24 | 10-K405 |
| 1993-12-31 | 222,000 | 1994-03-11 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The filing counts no people by segment; the single pattern rests on its description (c).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000040545-26-000008, 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.
Questions about this company
- How much of GE Aerospace's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 16% now and 45% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce GE Aerospace'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 GE Aerospace employ?
- 57,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 53% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up GE Aerospace's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 49% desk work, 13% people work and 38% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does GE Aerospace's annual report say about AI?
- 3 sentences in the filing name AI. 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 1, 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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