Murphy USA Inc. (MUSA)
Fuel stations and convenience stores, two thirds part-time. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 18, 2026. Ranked 90 of the 184 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
20%
End of 2028
23%
Employees, annual report
16,900
Leading staffing pattern
Gasoline Stations
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now20%
- End of 202723%
- End of 202823%
- End of 203023%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 77%
- Becomes checking a model's work 11%
- Handed over with lighter checks 12%
Murphy USA’s approximately 16,900 employees, 11,000 of them part-time, work in its fuel stations and QuickChek stores, read as one gasoline station pattern.
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, 23% at the end of 2027, 23% at the end of 2028, 23% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 23% desk work, 28% people work and 49% 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 77% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 11% becomes checking a model's work and 12% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
16,900 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing’s human capital excerpt counts no employees by country.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, Murphy USA had approximately 16,900 employees, including 5,900 full-time employees and 11,000 part-time employees working at our stores, National Contact Center, and corporate headquarters.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Gasoline Stations | 100% | By description (c): Murphy USA fuel stations and QuickChek convenience stores, with the contact center and headquarters inside, gasoline stations; no count by location. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 16,900 employees, 5,900 full-time and 11,000 part-time, at stores, the National Contact Center and headquarters; QuickChek benefits integrated in 2025.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Gasoline Stations, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Casey's General Stores, Inc. (CASY, 49,848 employees)20% now, 23% by 2028
- Arko Corp. (ARKO, 9,748 employees)21% now, 29% by 2028
- Sunoco LP (SUN, 8,910 employees)23% now, 31% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 5,900 | 2026-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 5,900 | 2025-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 5,900 | 2024-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 6,000 | 2023-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 6,245 | 2022-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 4,900 | 2021-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 9,900 | 2020-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 9,500 | 2019-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 9,600 | 2018-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 4,100 | 2017-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 4,400 | 2016-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 9,450 | 2015-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 8,250 | 2014-02-28 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The Index’s 5,900 was the full-time count; the filing states 16,900 in total (rule 2).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001573516-26-000090, 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 Murphy USA Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 20% now and 23% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Murphy USA 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 Murphy USA Inc. employ?
- 16,900 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Murphy USA Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Gasoline Stations; by those patterns the work is about 23% desk work, 28% people work and 49% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Murphy USA 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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