Packaging Corporation of America (PKG)
Corrugated box plants and paper mills. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 26, 2026. Ranked 140 of the 161 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
14%
End of 2028
24%
Employees, annual report
16,800
Leading staffing pattern
Converted Paper Product Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now14%
- End of 202721%
- End of 202824%
- End of 203024%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 75%
- Becomes checking a model's work 20%
- Handed over with lighter checks 4%
The filing states 16,800 employees, 12,200 of them hourly, in packaging (92% of revenue) and paper, with no count by segment, so the split follows the description of plants and mills.
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: 14% now, 21% at the end of 2027, 24% at the end of 2028, 24% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 24% desk work, 9% people work and 66% 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 75% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 20% becomes checking a model's work and 4% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
16,800 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). Not stated; the data service's geography table (foreign operations 100%) fails the checks and was not used.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 16,800 employees, including 4,600 salaried and 12,200 hourly employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Converted Paper Product Manufacturing | 65% | The Packaging segment is 92% of revenue and its corrugated products plants convert containerboard into boxes, the larger part of the workforce by description (c), as International Paper's and Smurfit Westrock's were read. |
| Pulp, Paper, and Paperboard Mills | 35% | The containerboard mills that feed the Packaging segment and the Paper segment's mill (7% of revenue) are pulp, paper and paperboard mills, read by description (c) since the filing counts no employees by segment. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 4,600 salaried and 12,200 hourly; about 41% of all employees, 57% of hourly, under collective bargaining agreements with the USW, PPPWU, AWPPW, IAM and Teamsters; contracts in negotiation; no work stoppages in 2025.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Converted Paper Product Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Smurfit Westrock plc (SW, 97,000 employees)14% now, 24% by 2028
- International Paper Company (IP, 62,602 employees)14% now, 24% by 2028
- Kimberly-Clark Corporation (KMB, 36,000 employees)15% now, 23% by 2028
- Avery Dennison Corporation (AVY, 35,000 employees)18% now, 26% by 2028
- Graphic Packaging Holding Company (GPK, 23,000 employees)14% now, 24% by 2028
- Sonoco Products Company (SON, 22,000 employees)16% now, 25% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
0 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names artificial intelligence 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 | 16,800 | 2026-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 15,400 | 2025-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 14,900 | 2024-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 15,100 | 2023-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 15,200 | 2022-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 15,200 | 2021-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 15,500 | 2020-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 15,000 | 2019-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 14,600 | 2018-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2017-02-28 | 14,000 | 2017-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 13,000 | 2016-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 14,000 | 2015-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 13,600 | 2014-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 8,600 | 2013-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 8,300 | 2012-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 8,100 | 2011-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 8,000 | 2010-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 8,100 | 2009-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 8,350 | 2008-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 8,300 | 2007-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 8,300 | 2006-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 8,100 | 2005-03-09 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 7,900 | 2004-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 7,900 | 2003-03-19 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 7,900 | 2002-03-20 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 7,900 | 2001-03-27 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 7,800 | 2000-03-10 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by segment or plant: the split between the corrugated plants and the mills is by description (c).
- The U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-074129, 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 Packaging Corporation of America's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 14% now and 24% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Packaging Corporation of America'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 Packaging Corporation of America employ?
- 16,800 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Packaging Corporation of America's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Converted Paper Product Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 24% desk work, 9% people work and 66% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Packaging Corporation of America'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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