Patrick Industries, Inc. (PATK)
RV, marine and housing components maker and distributor. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 19, 2026. Ranked 83 of the 161 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
19%
End of 2028
28%
Employees, annual report
10,000
Leading staffing pattern
Veneer, Plywood, and Engineered Wood Product Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now19%
- 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 69%
- Becomes checking a model's work 23%
- Handed over with lighter checks 7%
Patrick states approximately 10,000 team members at December 31, 2025, 80% hourly producing and distributing products for the RV, marine, powersports, manufactured housing and industrial markets, with no count by product line, so the panel, cabinet and plastics plants and the distribution business are split 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: 19% 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, 15% people work and 56% 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 69% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 23% becomes checking a model's work and 7% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
10,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts no team members by country.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, our team members totaled approximately 10,000, of which 80% are hourly team members who serve our customers by producing and distributing products in our RV, marine, powersports, MH and industrial end markets, and 20% who are salaried employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Veneer, Plywood, and Engineered Wood Product Manufacturing | 40% | The laminated panels, cabinet doors, wall and ceiling panels and other wood products made for recreational vehicles, marine and manufactured housing, the largest product group, take the largest share by description (c), the filing counting no team members by product line. |
| Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods (4232, 4233, 4235, 4236, 4237, and 4239 only) | 25% | The distribution business that supplies components and building products to RV, marine and housing manufacturers, counted by no figure, takes a share by description (c). |
| Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing (3371 and 3372 only) | 20% | The furniture, cabinets, countertops and mattresses made for the same markets, counted by no figure, take a share by description (c). |
| Plastics Product Manufacturing | 15% | The fiberglass, thermoformed and other plastic components, counted by no figure, take a share by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: 80% hourly team members producing and distributing products, 20% salaried; no union share is stated.
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 | 10,000 | 2026-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 10,000 | 2025-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 10,000 | 2024-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 11,000 | 2023-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 11,000 | 2022-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 8,700 | 2021-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 7,500 | 2020-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 8,113 | 2019-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 6,721 | 2018-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 4,497 | 2017-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 3,542 | 2016-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 2,799 | 2015-03-13 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 2,387 | 2014-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 1,678 | 2013-03-29 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 900 | 2012-03-29 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 668 | 2011-03-30 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 580 | 2010-03-30 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 924 | 2009-04-15 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 1,331 | 2008-03-31 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 961 | 2007-04-02 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 1,046 | 2006-03-28 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 1,114 | 2005-03-31 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 1,065 | 2004-03-29 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 1,023 | 2003-03-31 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 1,196 | 2002-03-29 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-12-31 | 1,343 | 2001-04-02 | 10-K405 |
| 1999-12-31 | 1,670 | 2000-03-30 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-12-31 | 1,722 | 1999-03-31 | 10-K405 |
| 1997-12-31 | 1,596 | 1998-03-30 | 10-K405 |
| 1996-12-31 | 1,497 | 1997-03-26 | 10-K |
| 1995-12-31 | 1,300 | 1996-04-01 | 10-K405 |
Limits of this reading
- No count by product line: the four shares are by description (c); the data service's segment table lacks the RV market and is not used.
- The U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000076605-26-000013, 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 Patrick Industries, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 19% now and 28% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Patrick Industries, 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 Patrick Industries, Inc. employ?
- 10,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Patrick Industries, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 4 industry staffing patterns, the largest Veneer, Plywood, and Engineered Wood Product Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 29% desk work, 15% people work and 56% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Patrick Industries, 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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