Vail Resorts, Inc. (MTN)

Ski resorts, 6,500 year-round plus seasonal staff. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending July 31, 2026, filed September 28, 2026. Ranked 71 of the 184 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

Vail Resorts’ approximately 6,500 year-round employees run mountain resorts, lodging and retail and rental stores, with about 44,400 seasonal employees over the seasons recorded apart, split by description.

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: 21% now, 27% at the end of 2027, 28% at the end of 2028, 28% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 28% desk work, 27% people work and 45% 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 72% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 18% becomes checking a model's work and 9% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

6,500 employees as of July 31, 2026 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; the resorts are in the U.S., Canada, Switzerland and Australia.

The filing: “At fiscal year end, we employed approximately 6,500 year-round employees.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 6,500 year-round employees at fiscal year end; about 44,400 seasonal employees over the winter and summer seasons of fiscal 2026 (47,500 in fiscal 2025); about 350 year-round and 120 seasonal employees employed on behalf of the owners of managed hotel properties, not counted; competitive wages for hourly and seasonal frontline staff.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Other Amusement and Recreation Industries, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• Life Time Group Holdings, Inc. (LTH, 44,000 employees)22% now, 29% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

28 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI 28 times: planned AI features in its app for trip planning and personalized recommendations, and AI among its risks.

• “Important factors that could cause actual results or outcomes, or the timing of our results or outcomes, to differ materially from our forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to: prolonged weakness in general market and macroeconomic conditions, including adverse effects on the overall travel and leisure related industries and our business and results of operations, including a...”
• “Looking ahead to the 2027/2028 North American ski season, the Company plans to expand in-app functionality to include lesson and rental purchases, and introduce features powered by artificial intelligence ("AI") that support trip planning and deliver personalized recommendations and itineraries.”
• “Future enhancements are expected to leverage AI to support trip planning and deliver personalized recommendations and itineraries, further improving the guest experience.”
• “My Epic Assistant - a feature within My Epic App, powered by AI and resort experts, My Epic Assistant provides real-time service to allow our guests to navigate their day at our resorts with confidence, efficiency and ease.”
• “The Technology Transformation is designed to improve how work gets done through the integration of technology and AI to deliver better and faster results, by simplifying and automating processes and reducing administrative burden to create capacity for teams to focus on the highest impact ways to elevate the employee and guest experience and achieve our Epic Experience strategy.”

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 20211median 0
• Fiscal 20220median 0
• Fiscal 20230median 1
• Fiscal 20241median 4
• Fiscal 20252median 10
• Fiscal 202628

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

• The collector’s 44,400 was the seasonal count over the seasons; the headcount is the 6,500 year-round employees at fiscal year end (rule 2), so the seasonal workforce that runs the resorts is recorded only in the notes.
• Employees employed on behalf of managed hotel owners are outside the count (rule 8).
• No count by kind of work; the split is by description.
• The revenue and geography tables are lodging lines and Canada at 100%, not usable.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000812011-26-000049, 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.