The Workforce AI Index · Consumer Defensive
Pilgrim's Pride Corporation (PPC)
Poultry processor, one pattern. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2025-12-28, filed 2026-02-12. Ranked 16 of the 16 Consumer Defensive companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.
The filing states over 63,000 persons in one poultry processing business, so one pattern carries the workforce (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: 9% now, 12% at the end of 2027, 13% at the end of 2028, 14% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 14% desk work, 6% people work and 81% 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 84% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 12% becomes checking a model's work and 3% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
63,000 employees as of 2025-12-28 (stated). The filing gives no count by country; the U.S. segment is 57% of revenue, Europe 29% and Mexico 12%.
The filing: “As of December 28, 2025, we employed over 63,000 persons.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Animal Slaughtering and Processing | 100% | By description (c): poultry and prepared foods processing in the U.S., Europe and Mexico, one business, with processing workers and operations supervisors named as its critical roles and no count by segment. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Over 63,000 persons, up from 61,600; approximately 35.1% under a collective bargaining agreement; a 64% year-over-year reduction in severe injuries in 2025; a free community college program for team members.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Animal Slaughtering and Processing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Tyson Foods (TSN, 133,000 employees)10% now, 16% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
4 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in 4 sentences, as risk: AI intensifying cybersecurity risks and the legal risks of its limited current use of AI and machine learning.
- “The rapid evolution and increased adoption of new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, may intensify our cybersecurity risks.”
- “Our use of artificial intelligence and machine learning may result in legal and regulatory risks.”
- “While we currently have limited use cases for artificial intelligence, to the extent we use technology more broadly in the future, its use entails significant legal risks, including the breach of a data or software license, website terms of service claims, claimed violations of privacy rights or other tort claims.”
- “The regulatory landscape surrounding artificial intelligence is also evolving, and expanded use of machine learning technologies may become subject to regulation under new laws or new applications of existing laws.”
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-28 | 63,000 | 2026-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-29 | 61,600 | 2025-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 61,200 | 2024-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-25 | 61,500 | 2023-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-26 | 59,400 | 2022-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-27 | 56,400 | 2021-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-29 | 53,100 | 2020-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-30 | not read | 2019-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 51,300 | 2018-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-25 | 39,600 | 2017-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-27 | 29,100 | 2016-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-28 | 35,000 | 2015-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-29 | 31,600 | 2014-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-30 | 33,000 | 2013-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-25 | 34,500 | 2012-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-26 | 37,100 | 2011-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2009-09-26 | 36,600 | 2009-11-23 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-11 | 44,750 | 2008-12-11 | 10-K |
| 2007-09-29 | 49,800 | 2007-11-19 | 10-K |
| 2006-09-30 | 34,600 | 2006-11-20 | 10-K |
| 2005-10-01 | 35,400 | 2005-11-18 | 10-K |
| 2004-10-02 | 35,500 | 2004-11-24 | 10-K |
| 2003-09-27 | 19,900 | 2003-11-18 | 10-K |
| 2002-09-28 | 20,200 | 2002-12-06 | 10-K |
| 2001-09-29 | 19,900 | 2001-11-23 | 10-K |
| 2000-09-30 | 11,300 | 2000-11-20 | 10-K |
| 1999-10-02 | 11,200 | 1999-11-26 | 10-K |
| 1998-09-26 | 9,700 | 1998-12-14 | 10-K405 |
| 1997-09-27 | 9,700 | 1997-12-15 | 10-K405 |
| 1996-09-28 | 8,300 | 1996-12-16 | 10-K405 |
| 1995-09-30 | 8,000 | 1995-12-20 | 10-K |
| 1994-10-01 | 7,200 | 1994-12-19 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The filing counts no people by segment or by country; the single pattern rests on its description (c).
- Much of the workforce is abroad; the pattern applies abroad because the work is the same in kind (rule 7).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000802481-26-000011, 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.
Questions about this company
- How much of Pilgrim's Pride Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 9% now and 13% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Pilgrim's Pride 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 Pilgrim's Pride Corporation employ?
- 63,000 as of December 28, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 28, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Pilgrim's Pride Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Animal Slaughtering and Processing; by those patterns the work is about 14% desk work, 6% people work and 81% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Pilgrim's Pride Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 4 sentences in the filing name AI. 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 1, 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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