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STRATUSWORKFORCE SCAN

Sirius XM Holdings Inc. (SIRI)

Satellite radio and streaming audio, 5,119 employees. Read October 20, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 5, 2026. Ranked 14 of the 39 Communication Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

Within reach now

27%

End of 2028

66%

Employees, annual report

5,119

Leading staffing pattern

Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers

Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five

  • Now27%
  • End of 202754%
  • End of 202866%
  • End of 203069%

What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures

  • Stays with people 30%
  • Becomes checking a model's work 55%
  • Handed over with lighter checks 10%

The filing states 5,119 employees of one subscription audio business with nothing by function or country, so one media network pattern carries the workforce.

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, 54% at the end of 2027, 66% at the end of 2028, 69% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 70% desk work, 22% people work and 8% 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 30% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 55% becomes checking a model's work and 10% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

5,119 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing counts no employees by country; it reports a U.S. population among its employees without a number.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had 5,119 full-time and part-time employees whose skills span a wide range of highly specialized capabilities.”

The workforce as industry patterns

PatternShareReason, from the filing
Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers100%By description (c): a satellite radio and streaming audio service with subscription and advertising revenue, which NAICS places with media networks and streaming distribution; no broadcast stations and no count by business.

What the filing says about the workforce: 5,119 full-time and part-time employees; core voluntary full-time turnover 6.6% in 2025; 43.1% women; headcount fell from 5,515 a year earlier.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

What the filing says about AI

15 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says it incorporates AI solutions into its digital infrastructure, services and features, that these are becoming important in operations, and that managing their use is a risk.

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

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.

PeriodEmployeesFiledFiling
2025-12-315,1192026-02-0510-K
2024-12-315,5152025-01-3010-K
2023-12-315,6802024-02-0110-K
2022-12-315,8692023-02-0210-K
2021-12-315,5902022-02-0110-K
2020-12-315,7262021-02-0210-K
2019-12-314,5342020-02-0410-K
2018-12-312,6992019-01-3010-K
2017-12-312,5752018-01-3110-K
2016-12-312,4022017-02-0210-K
2015-12-312,3232016-02-0210-K
2014-12-312,3272015-02-0510-K
2013-12-312,1952014-02-0410-K
2012-12-311,5962013-02-0610-K
2011-12-311,5262012-02-0910-K
2010-12-311,4792011-02-1610-K
2009-12-311,5142010-02-2510-K
2008-12-311,6402009-03-1010-K
2007-12-319732008-02-2910-K
2006-12-317722007-03-0110-K
2005-12-316142006-03-1310-K
2004-12-315142005-03-1610-K
2003-12-313752004-03-1210-K
2002-12-313042003-03-2810-K
2001-12-312472002-03-2710-K405
2000-12-311802001-03-3010-K405
1999-12-312502000-03-3010-K405
1998-12-311501999-03-3110-K
1997-12-31141998-03-1910-K405
1996-12-3131997-03-3110-K405

Limits of this reading

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0000908937-26-000006, 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.

The report on Sirius XM Holdings Inc., $29

This page as a document to keep, with what it does not show: the share within reach at every date on three paces and two reliabilities, a typical workforce of this shape at the stated headcount role by role and task by task (the industries' staffing, never the company's roster), where to start, what changes for the people and what they would learn, every sentence in the filing that names AI, the headcount by year, the companies read with the same leading pattern, the method and a citation line. To print or save as a PDF, open again in your browser for a year.

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Questions about this company

How much of Sirius XM Holdings Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
An estimated 27% now and 66% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Sirius XM Holdings 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 Sirius XM Holdings Inc. employ?
5,119 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
What kinds of work make up Sirius XM Holdings Inc.'s workforce?
Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Media Streaming Distribution Services, Social Networks, and Other Media Networks and Content Providers; by those patterns the work is about 70% desk work, 22% people work and 8% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
What does Sirius XM Holdings Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
15 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 14, 14 and 15 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 20, 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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