The Workforce AI Index · Industrials
RTX (RTX)
An aerospace and defense maker by description. Read October 1, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending 2025-12-31, filed 2026-02-06. Ranked 22 of the 28 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now: the sector.
The filing states the total, the engineering and union counts and the U.S. share, but nothing by business, so the manufacturing and services patterns follow the description.
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: 16% now, 34% at the end of 2027, 44% at the end of 2028, 48% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 48% desk work, 13% people work and 39% 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 48% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 44% 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
180,000 employees as of 2025-12-31 (stated). 69% of employees are located in the U.S.; employees are in 52 countries.
The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, our global employee population consisted of a total of approximately 180,000 employees, including approximately 54,000 engineering professionals and approximately 32,000 employees represented by labor unions and other employee representative bodies.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing | 95% | By (c): the filing states the total, a skill count of 54,000 engineering professionals and the union count, but no headcount by business, and its three businesses, aircraft systems, engines and defense systems, are aerospace manufacturing, so nearly all of the workforce is read there by description, with engineers inside the pattern as BLS counts them. |
| Support Activities for Air Transportation | 5% | By (c): aftermarket maintenance and repair services are described without a headcount, so a small share is read into the air transportation support pattern by description. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 180,000 employees, 54,000 of them engineering professionals; about 32,000 union-represented or under employee representative bodies; 69% in the U.S., in 52 countries.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Aerospace Product and Parts 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.
- Boeing (BA, 182,000 employees)16% now, 43% by 2028
- Lockheed Martin (LMT, 123,000 employees)16% now, 47% by 2028
- Honeywell International Inc. (HON, 101,000 employees)17% now, 45% by 2028
- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC, 95,000 employees)16% now, 46% by 2028
- GE Aerospace (GE, 57,000 employees)16% now, 45% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
7 sentences in the filing name AI. AI appears in the risk factors: whether its methods for developing and deploying AI systems comply with new rules, and the data breach and cyber risks of improper AI use; the human capital section does not mention it.
- “For example we are investing in artificial intelligence, among other advanced technologies, and our business may be adversely affected if we are unable to successfully integrate the technology into our internal business processes and products and services in a timely, cost-effective, compliant, and responsible manner.”
- “The methods and processes we use to develop, deploy or otherwise use artificial intelligence systems may be found to not be in compliance with rapidly evolving regulatory standards thereby preventing or frustrating our use of the systems or creating liability for us.”
- “Improper use of artificial intelligence could also lead to data breaches, undetected cyber-attacks, regulatory action, and reputational risks.”
- “Further, the sophistication, availability, and use of artificial intelligence by threat actors present an increased level of risk.”
- “These risks relate to, among other things, product safety and reliability, personal injuries, intellectual property rights, contract-related claims, government contracts, taxes, environmental matters, the use of chemical substances, the use of artificial intelligence, export control, sanctions, employment matters, securities laws, competition laws, and laws governing improper business practices.”
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 | 180,000 | 2026-02-06 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 186,000 | 2025-02-03 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 185,000 | 2024-02-05 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 182,000 | 2023-02-07 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 174,000 | 2022-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 181,000 | 2021-02-08 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 243,200 | 2020-02-06 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 240,000 | 2019-02-07 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 205,000 | 2018-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 202,000 | 2017-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 197,000 | 2016-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 211,000 | 2015-02-05 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 212,000 | 2014-02-06 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 218,000 | 2013-02-07 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 199,900 | 2012-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 208,200 | 2011-02-10 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 206,700 | 2010-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 223,100 | 2009-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 225,600 | 2008-02-07 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 214,500 | 2007-02-08 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 222,200 | 2006-02-09 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 210,000 | 2005-02-10 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 203,300 | 2004-02-05 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 155,000 | 2003-02-10 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 152,000 | 2002-02-11 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 153,800 | 2001-02-12 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 148,300 | 2000-02-14 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-31 | 178,800 | 1999-02-16 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 180,100 | 1998-02-17 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-31 | 173,800 | 1997-02-07 | 10-K |
| 1995-12-31 | 170,600 | 1996-03-28 | 10-K |
| 1994-12-31 | 171,500 | 1995-03-29 | 10-K |
| 1993-12-31 | 168,600 | 1994-03-31 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No headcount by business is stated; the 54,000 is a skill count, so both pattern shares follow the description (c).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000101829-26-000006, 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 RTX's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 16% now and 44% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce RTX'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 RTX employ?
- 180,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 69% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up RTX's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 48% desk work, 13% people work and 39% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does RTX's annual report say about AI?
- 7 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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