The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS)

Investment bank, 47,400 headcount, half in the Americas. Read October 2, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 25, 2026. Ranked 22 of the 26 Financial Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

The filing states one headcount and its regions, nothing by segment, so the whole workforce takes the securities and investment pattern by 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: 34% now, 61% at the end of 2027, 71% at the end of 2028, 74% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 74% desk work, 23% people work and 3% 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 26% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 63% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

47,400 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). 50% in the Americas, 20% in EMEA and 30% in Asia; no U.S. count.

The filing: “As of December 2025, we had headcount of 47,400, offices in over 35 countries, and 50% of our headcount was based in the Americas, 20% in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and 30% in Asia.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Headcount of 47,400 in offices in over 35 countries, 50% in the Americas, 20% in EMEA and 30% in Asia; average employee tenure about 6 years; about 20,000 employees volunteered in 2025; about 1,000 employees share in carried interest.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Morgan Stanley (MS, 83,000 employees)34% now, 71% by 2028
• State Street Corporation (STT, 52,000 employees)34% now, 71% by 2028
• Bank of New York Mellon Corp (BNY, 48,100 employees)34% now, 71% by 2028
• S&P Global Inc. (SPGI, 44,500 employees)31% now, 70% by 2028
• Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. (BAM, 5,800 employees)34% now, 71% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

32 sentences in the filing name AI. Thirty-two sentences: the E.U. AI Act's rules and effective dates among the regulations the firm describes, and AI elsewhere in its regulatory and risk language.

• “AI Act) became effective.”
• “AI Act apply from February 2025, with other provisions applying between August 2025 and August 2027.”
• “AI Act establishes rules for placing on the market, putting into service, and using artificial intelligence systems in the E.U.”
• “In July 2025, the European Commission published the voluntary General-Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of Practice, which provides guidelines for compliance with the E.U.”
• “AND SUBSIDIARIES These statements may relate to, among other things, (i) our future plans and results, including our target return on average common shareholders' equity (ROE), return on average tangible common shareholders' equity (ROTE), efficiency ratio, CET1 capital ratio, total credit alternative assets, total alternative assets under supervision (AUS), long-term wealth management inflows...”

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 202317median 1
• Fiscal 202427median 4
• Fiscal 202532median 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

• No count by segment or by country: one pattern by description (c).

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000886982-26-000091, 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.