LKQ Corporation (LKQ)
Vehicle parts distributor, 44,000, 57% in Europe. Read October 2, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 19, 2026. Ranked 16 of the 54 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
22%
End of 2028
32%
Employees, annual report
44,000
Leading staffing pattern
Motor Vehicle and Motor Vehicle Parts and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now22%
- End of 202730%
- End of 202832%
- End of 203033%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 67%
- Becomes checking a model's work 22%
- Handed over with lighter checks 11%
The filing counts its people by region (a) but not by kind of work, so the whole workforce takes the vehicle parts wholesale 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: 22% now, 30% at the end of 2027, 32% at the end of 2028, 33% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 33% desk work, 17% people work and 50% 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 67% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 22% becomes checking a model's work and 11% 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). About 17,000 in North America, 25,000 in Europe and 2,000 in Asia; no U.S. count.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employ approximately 44,000 people globally, of which approximately 17,000 are based in North America, 25,000 based in Europe and 2,000 based in Asia.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Motor Vehicle and Motor Vehicle Parts and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers | 100% | A distributor of vehicle parts in North America and Europe, with its specialty segment (21% of revenue); the filing states no count by kind of work, so one wholesale pattern by description (c), the recycling yards inside it. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 44,000 people: 17,000 in North America, 25,000 in Europe and 2,000 in Asia; about 1,000 in North America represented by unions and about 7,000 in Europe by unions or works councils.
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 20223median 0
- Fiscal 20233median 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 | 44,000 | 2026-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 47,000 | 2025-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 49,000 | 2024-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 45,000 | 2023-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 46,000 | 2022-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 44,000 | 2021-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 51,000 | 2020-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 51,000 | 2019-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 43,000 | 2018-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 42,500 | 2017-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 31,100 | 2016-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 9,000 | 2015-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 7,000 | 2014-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 20,300 | 2013-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 17,900 | 2012-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 12,000 | 2011-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 10,000 | 2010-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 620 | 2009-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 600 | 2008-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 462 | 2007-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 3,370 | 2006-03-08 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 2,700 | 2005-03-08 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 1,800 | 2004-03-24 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No U.S. count: 17,000 in North America.
- No count by kind of work: one wholesale pattern by description (c), the salvage and self-service yards inside it.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001065696-26-000012, 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 LKQ Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 22% now and 32% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce LKQ Corporation'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 LKQ Corporation employ?
- 44,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up LKQ Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Motor Vehicle and Motor Vehicle Parts and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers; by those patterns the work is about 33% desk work, 17% people work and 50% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does LKQ Corporation'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, 3, 3, 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 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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