Masco Corporation (MAS)
Plumbing and paint products maker. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 10, 2026. Ranked 8 of the 20 Basic Materials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
20%
End of 2028
33%
Employees, annual report
18,000
Leading staffing pattern
Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (3321, 3322, 3325, 3326, and 3329 only)
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now20%
- End of 202729%
- End of 202833%
- End of 203034%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 66%
- Becomes checking a model's work 28%
- Handed over with lighter checks 5%
18,000 employees making faucets, showers and spas and paints and hardware, split by segment revenue since the filing counts no employees by segment.
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: 20% now, 29% at the end of 2027, 33% at the end of 2028, 34% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 34% desk work, 14% people work and 52% 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 66% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 28% becomes checking a model's work and 5% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
18,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; 79% of revenue is in North America and 21% at foreign locations.
The filing: “At December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 18,000 people.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (3321, 3322, 3325, 3326, and 3329 only) | 66% | Plumbing Products is 66% of revenue (c): faucets, showers, valves and fittings, which NAICS places with plumbing fixture fittings in this group; the filing counts no employees by segment. |
| Chemical Manufacturing (3255 and 3256 only) | 34% | Decorative Architectural Products is 34% of revenue (c): paints and coatings, with the hardware lines read into the same segment share by description. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 18,000 employees at December 31, 2025; the filing's human capital section states no hourly, part-time, union or regional figures.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (3321, 3322, 3325, 3326, and 3329 only), largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- The Timken Company (TKR, 19,000 employees)19% now, 34% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
2 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in two sentences, in its risk factors: cybersecurity threats that may be exacerbated by the proliferation of and advances in artificial intelligence, and harm if proprietary information is exposed through the unauthorized use of artificial intelligence technologies.
- “Global cybersecurity vulnerabilities, threats and more frequent, sophisticated and targeted attacks, which may be increasingly exacerbated by the proliferation of and advance in artificial intelligence, pose a risk to our information technology systems and to critical third-party information technology platforms we utilize.”
- “In addition, we may be harmed if our proprietary or confidential information regarding our business is exposed through the unauthorized use of artificial intelligence technologies.”
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 20252median 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 | 18,000 | 2026-02-10 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 18,000 | 2025-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 18,000 | 2024-02-08 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 19,000 | 2023-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 20,000 | 2022-02-08 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 18,000 | 2021-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 18,000 | 2020-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 26,000 | 2019-02-07 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 26,000 | 2018-02-08 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 26,000 | 2017-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 25,000 | 2016-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 32,000 | 2015-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 32,000 | 2014-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 30,000 | 2013-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 31,000 | 2012-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 32,500 | 2011-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 35,400 | 2010-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 39,000 | 2009-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 52,000 | 2008-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 57,000 | 2007-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 62,000 | 2006-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 62,000 | 2005-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 61,000 | 2004-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 61,000 | 2003-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 55,400 | 2002-03-28 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-12-31 | 48,600 | 2001-03-29 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 42,500 | 2000-03-30 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-31 | 31,700 | 1999-03-26 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 28,100 | 1998-03-27 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-31 | 22,800 | 1997-03-28 | 10-K405 |
| 1995-12-31 | 20,500 | 1996-03-29 | 10-K405 |
| 1994-12-31 | 51,300 | 1995-03-28 | 10-K405 |
| 1993-12-31 | 45,000 | 1994-03-25 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The filing counts no employees by segment, so the split is by segment revenue (c).
- The U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000062996-26-000005, 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 Masco Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 20% now and 33% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Masco 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 Masco Corporation employ?
- 18,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Masco Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing (3321, 3322, 3325, 3326, and 3329 only); by those patterns the work is about 34% desk work, 14% people work and 52% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Masco Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 2 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 2 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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