Service Corporation International (SCI)
Funeral homes and cemeteries. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 12, 2026. Ranked 7 of the 104 Consumer Cyclical companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
27%
End of 2028
35%
Employees, annual report
25,187
Leading staffing pattern
Death Care Services
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now27%
- End of 202734%
- End of 202835%
- End of 203036%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 58%
- Becomes checking a model's work 19%
- Handed over with lighter checks 22%
25,187 employees, the sum of 17,869 full-time and 7,318 part-time, at funeral homes and cemeteries with 1,313 full-time corporate staff at management of companies.
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: 27% now, 34% at the end of 2027, 35% at the end of 2028, 36% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 36% desk work, 13% people work and 51% 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 58% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 19% becomes checking a model's work and 22% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
25,187 employees as of December 31, 2025 (sum of stated parts). The filing counts no employees by country; 95% of revenue is in the United States and 5% in Canada.
The filing: “Human Capital Management At December 31, 2025, we employed 17,869 full-time individuals and 7,318 part-time individuals.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Death Care Services | 95% | 16,556 full-time associates are employed in the funeral and cemetery operations (a), and the 7,318 part-time associates are read into the same pattern by description, since the filing's part-time count is not split by area. |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 5% | 1,313 full-time associates are employed in corporate areas of the business (a), recorded under rule 6. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 17,869 full-time and 7,318 part-time associates (29% part-time); 16,556 full-time in funeral and cemetery operations and 1,313 in corporate areas; about 2.2% represented by unions; 9,526 associates in the group health plans.
What the filing says about AI
13 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in thirteen sentences, including a section on digital innovation and AI governance: it is adopting digital tools including artificial intelligence to support its funeral, cremation and cemetery operations and corporate functions, says its approach rests on governance, risk management and associate education, and says it believes AI-enabled tools will improve operational effectiveness where technology can help associates focus on care and service.
- “Digital Innovation and AI Governance As technology continues to evolve, the Company is thoughtfully adopting digital tools, including artificial intelligence (AI), to support its funeral, cremation, and cemetery operations, enhance service quality, and improve efficiency across both field FORM 10-K 11 PART I locations and corporate functions.”
- “SCI's approach to AI is grounded in responsible innovation, with a focus on deploying practical use cases while maintaining strong governance, risk management, and associate education to guide adoption.”
- “SCI believes AI-enabled tools will improve operational effectiveness, particularly in areas where technology can help associates focus more fully on care, compassion, and service.”
- “Central to this approach is preparing our workforce to understand, use, and oversee AI responsibly and ethically, consistent with the Company's values and commitment to Service Excellence.”
- “To support responsible use of AI by associates, SCI's Employee Artificial Intelligence Use Policy outlines expectations for ethical, secure and appropriate use of AI-enabled tools.”
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 20242median 4
- Fiscal 202513median 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 | 17,869 | 2026-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 17,685 | 2025-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 17,612 | 2024-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 17,589 | 2023-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 17,022 | 2022-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 16,503 | 2021-02-16 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 16,320 | 2020-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 16,129 | 2019-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 15,508 | 2018-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 15,361 | 2017-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 15,654 | 2016-02-18 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 15,442 | 2015-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 16,476 | 2014-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 12,679 | 2013-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 12,720 | 2012-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 13,063 | 2011-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 13,087 | 2010-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 13,581 | 2009-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 13,499 | 2008-03-03 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 14,454 | 2007-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 11,063 | 2006-03-06 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 13,939 | 2005-03-31 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 20,471 | 2004-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 21,088 | 2003-03-17 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 24,006 | 2002-03-28 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-31 | 29,326 | 2001-03-30 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 30,693 | 2000-03-30 | 10-K |
| 1998-12-31 | 27,618 | 1999-03-31 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 24,072 | 1998-03-30 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-31 | 22,607 | 1997-03-28 | 10-K |
| 1995-12-31 | 19,824 | 1996-03-29 | 10-K |
| 1994-12-31 | 12,619 | 1995-03-31 | 10-K |
| 1993-12-31 | 8,985 | 1994-03-31 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The headcount is the sum of the stated full-time and part-time counts (rule 2); the collector took the full-time count alone.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-007695, 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 Service Corporation International's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 27% now and 35% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Service Corporation International'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 Service Corporation International employ?
- 25,187 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states as the sum of the parts it gives.
- What kinds of work make up Service Corporation International's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Death Care Services; by those patterns the work is about 36% desk work, 13% people work and 51% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Service Corporation International's annual report say about AI?
- 13 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 2 and 13 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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