IES Holdings, Inc. (IESC)
Electrical, plumbing and HVAC contractor, 174 locations. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025, filed November 21, 2025. Ranked 103 of the 175 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
18%
End of 2028
28%
Employees, annual report
10,283
Leading staffing pattern
Building Equipment Contractors
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now18%
- End of 202726%
- End of 202828%
- End of 203029%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 70%
- Becomes checking a model's work 23%
- Handed over with lighter checks 6%
IES Holdings states 10,283 employees at September 30, 2025, 10,262 of them full-time and fewer than 30 under collective bargaining agreements, across Residential, Communications, Commercial and Industrial contracting segments and an Infrastructure Solutions segment with no count by segment, so the contracting crews take most of the workforce and the custom-engineered products the rest 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: 18% now, 26% at the end of 2027, 28% at the end of 2028, 29% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 29% desk work, 14% people work and 57% 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 70% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 23% 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
10,283 employees as of September 30, 2025 (stated). The filing describes 174 domestic locations; no count by country is stated.
The filing: “Our Employees At September 30, 2025, we had 10,283 employees, of which 10,262 were full-time employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Building Equipment Contractors | 85% | The Residential, Communications and Commercial and Industrial segments, 86% of revenue, install electrical, plumbing, HVAC and network systems on job sites, and the filing counts no employees by segment, so the contracting crews take most of the workforce by revenue (c), as EMCOR and Comfort Systems were read. |
| Electrical Equipment Manufacturing | 15% | The Infrastructure Solutions segment, 15% of revenue, makes custom-engineered generator enclosures and power equipment and repairs motors, counted by no employee figure, so it takes that share by revenue (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: 10,283 employees, 10,262 full-time; two collective bargaining agreements cover fewer than 30 employees; two residential education centers train electrical, plumbing and HVAC skills; the count rose from 9,423 a year earlier.
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
- EMCOR Group, Inc. (EME, 44,000 employees)18% now, 27% by 2028
- APi Group Corporation (APG, 29,000 employees)17% now, 26% by 2028
- Comfort Systems USA, Inc. (FIX, 22,700 employees)18% now, 27% by 2028
- Everus Construction Group, Inc. (ECG, 9,400 employees)17% now, 26% by 2028
- Sunrun Inc. (RUN, 9,059 employees)18% now, 27% by 2028
- Legence Corp. Class A Common stock (LGN, 7,000 employees)18% now, 37% by 2028
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
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 10,262 | 2025-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2024-09-30 | 9,423 | 2024-11-22 | 10-K |
| 2023-09-30 | 8,357 | 2023-12-07 | 10-K |
| 2022-09-30 | 8,028 | 2022-12-06 | 10-K |
| 2021-09-30 | 6,781 | 2021-12-03 | 10-K |
| 2020-09-30 | 5,214 | 2020-12-07 | 10-K |
| 2019-09-30 | 5,389 | 2019-12-06 | 10-K |
| 2018-09-30 | 4,564 | 2018-12-07 | 10-K |
| 2017-09-30 | 3,532 | 2017-12-08 | 10-K |
| 2016-09-30 | 4,063 | 2016-12-09 | 10-K |
| 2015-09-30 | 3,106 | 2015-12-11 | 10-K |
| 2014-09-30 | 2,779 | 2014-12-12 | 10-K |
| 2013-09-30 | 2,740 | 2013-12-17 | 10-K |
| 2012-09-30 | 2,583 | 2012-12-14 | 10-K |
| 2011-09-30 | 2,724 | 2011-12-20 | 10-K |
| 2010-09-30 | 2,921 | 2010-12-14 | 10-K |
| 2009-09-30 | 3,504 | 2009-12-14 | 10-K |
| 2008-09-30 | 4,938 | 2008-12-15 | 10-K |
| 2007-09-30 | 5,746 | 2007-12-13 | 10-K |
| 2006-09-30 | 7,183 | 2006-12-21 | 10-K |
| 2005-09-30 | 8,900 | 2005-12-21 | 10-K |
| 2004-09-30 | 11,600 | 2004-12-14 | 10-K |
| 2003-09-30 | 13,000 | 2003-11-26 | 10-K |
| 2002-09-30 | 13,500 | 2002-11-27 | 10-K |
| 2001-09-30 | 15,300 | 2001-12-14 | 10-K |
| 2000-09-30 | 15,500 | 2000-12-19 | 10-K405 |
| 1999-09-30 | 13,000 | 1999-12-16 | 10-K |
| 1998-09-30 | 7,869 | 1998-12-21 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by segment: the shares are by revenue (c).
- The U.S. share rests on the filing's description of domestic locations, not a stated count.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001048268-25-000174, 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 IES Holdings, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 18% now and 28% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce IES Holdings, 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 IES Holdings, Inc. employ?
- 10,283 as of September 30, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up IES Holdings, 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 29% desk work, 14% people work and 57% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does IES Holdings, 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, 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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