United Parks & Resorts Inc. (PRKS)
Theme parks, full-time staff with seasonal workforce apart. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed March 3, 2026. Ranked 204 of the 240 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
20%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
22%
Employees, annual report
3,300
Leading staffing pattern
Amusement Parks and Arcades
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Now20%
- End of 202721%
- End of 202822%
- End of 203022%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 79%
- Becomes checking a model's work 12%
- Handed over with lighter checks 9%
A theme park operator with about 3,300 full-time employees and 12,900 part-time and seasonal employees at year-end, read at amusement parks on the full-time count.
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, 21% at the end of 2027, 22% at the end of 2028, 22% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 22% desk work, 30% 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 79% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 12% 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
3,300 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing describes theme parks in the United States and nothing abroad, so the U.S. share is recorded as 1, flagged.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 3,300 full-time employees and approximately 12,900 part-time and seasonal employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Amusement Parks and Arcades | 100% | By description (c): theme parks with their rides, animal care, food, beverage, merchandise and games staff in one amusement park pattern; the filing counts no employees by function. |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 3,300 full-time employees and approximately 12,900 part-time and seasonal employees at December 31, 2025, with more part-time and seasonal employees in the peak season; no collective bargaining agreement; 50% of the workforce female.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Amusement Parks and Arcades, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- Disney (DIS, 231,000 employees)28% now, 34% by 2028
- Six Flags Entertainment Corporation (FUN, 4,225 employees)20% now, 22% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
1 sentences in the filing name AI. One sentence, a risk factor: computer systems are targets of cyber-attacks including through the use of artificial intelligence.
- “Like other public companies, our computer systems are regularly subject to and will continue to be the target of computer viruses, malware or other malicious codes (including ransomware), rogue employee activity, unauthorized access, cyber-attacks (including through the use of artificial intelligence) or other computer-related penetrations.”
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 20241median 4
- Fiscal 20251median 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 | 3,300 | 2026-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 3,300 | 2025-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 3,300 | 2024-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 3,200 | 2023-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 2,800 | 2022-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 2,300 | 2021-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 4,300 | 2020-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 4,700 | 2019-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 4,900 | 2018-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 5,000 | 2017-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 5,000 | 2016-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 5,000 | 2015-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 4,500 | 2014-03-21 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- A seasonal operator: the headcount is the 3,300 full-time employees, as Vail's and Six Flags' year-round counts are read, with the 12,900 part-time and seasonal employees at year-end in the notes; the collector's 12,900 is that seasonal count (rule 2).
- The U.S. share is read from the filing's description, not stated as a share.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-26-088288, 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 United Parks & Resorts Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 20% now and 22% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce United Parks & Resorts 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 United Parks & Resorts Inc. employ?
- 3,300 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up United Parks & Resorts Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Amusement Parks and Arcades; by those patterns the work is about 22% desk work, 30% 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 United Parks & Resorts Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 1 sentence in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 1 and 1 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 November 8, 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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