Spire Inc. (SR)
Natural gas utility, 56% union. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025, filed November 14, 2025. Ranked 16 of the 42 Utilities companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
34%
projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index
End of 2028
44%
Employees, annual report
3,497
Leading staffing pattern
Natural Gas Distribution
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.
- Now34%
- End of 202742%
- End of 202844%
- End of 203045%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 46%
- Becomes checking a model's work 45%
- Handed over with lighter checks 8%
Spire states 3,497 employees, 1,956 at Spire Missouri and 748 at Spire Alabama, 56% under labor agreements, in a natural gas distribution utility read whole at natural gas distribution.
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: 34% now, 42% at the end of 2027, 44% at the end of 2028, 45% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 45% desk work, 16% 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 46% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 45% becomes checking a model's work and 8% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
3,497 employees as of September 30, 2025 (stated). A natural gas utility serving Missouri, Alabama and Mississippi with gas storage and marketing businesses in the U.S.; the filing states no count by country, so the share is 1 with a flag.
The filing: “As of September 30, 2025, Spire had 3,497 employees, including 1,956 for Spire Missouri and 748 for Spire Alabama.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Natural Gas Distribution | 100% | Stated counts (a) inside one business: 1,956 at Spire Missouri and 748 at Spire Alabama among 3,497, with Spire Gulf, Spire Mississippi, the gas marketing and storage businesses (12% of revenue) and corporate services inside, natural gas distribution, NAICS 2212, the SIC 4924 business, with no corporate count stated. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 3,497 employees, 1,956 at Spire Missouri and 748 at Spire Alabama; 1,969 covered by labor agreements (56%), 1,521 at Spire Missouri, 389 at Spire Alabama and 59 at Spire Gulf, mostly with the United Steelworkers and the gas fitters' and pipefitters' unions; 80 to 200 hours of first-year training for field employees; fiscal year ends September 30.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Natural Gas Distribution, 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.
- Sempra (SRE, 15,938 employees)33% now, 43% by 2028
- Enbridge Inc. (ENB, 14,800 employees)33% now, 43% by 2028
- NiSource Inc (NI, 7,738 employees)34% now, 44% by 2028
- Atmos Energy Corporation (ATO, 5,487 employees)39% now, 52% by 2028
- ONE Gas, Inc. (OGS, 4,000 employees)34% now, 44% by 2028
- Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. (SWX, 2,453 employees)34% now, 44% by 2028
- National Fuel Gas Company (NFG, 2,322 employees)33% now, 43% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
1 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing's one AI sentence is a cybersecurity risk factor: despite policy restrictions on AI, whitelisting and vendor limits, confidential data could be shared inadvertently through open AI tools.
- “Despite Company policy restrictions on artificial intelligence ("AI"), whitelisting of sites, and contractual limitations on vendors' use of AI, there is also a risk of inadvertent sharing of confidential or proprietary data through the inappropriate use of open AI 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-30 | 3,497 | 2025-11-14 | 10-K |
| 2024-09-30 | 3,475 | 2024-11-20 | 10-K |
| 2023-09-30 | 3,589 | 2023-11-16 | 10-K |
| 2022-09-30 | 3,584 | 2022-11-16 | 10-K |
| 2021-09-30 | 3,710 | 2021-11-22 | 10-K |
| 2020-09-30 | 3,583 | 2020-11-18 | 10-K |
| 2019-09-30 | 3,536 | 2019-11-26 | 10-K |
| 2018-09-30 | 3,366 | 2018-11-15 | 10-K |
| 2017-09-30 | 3,279 | 2017-11-15 | 10-K |
| 2016-09-30 | 1,975 | 2016-11-15 | 10-K |
| 2015-09-30 | 3,078 | 2015-11-24 | 10-K |
| 2014-09-30 | 3,152 | 2014-11-25 | 10-K |
| 2013-09-30 | 2,326 | 2013-11-26 | 10-K |
| 2012-09-30 | 1,656 | 2012-11-19 | 10-K |
| 2011-09-30 | 1,638 | 2011-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2010-09-30 | 1,697 | 2010-11-19 | 10-K |
| 2009-09-30 | 1,762 | 2009-11-20 | 10-K |
| 2008-09-30 | 1,807 | 2008-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2007-09-30 | 1,835 | 2007-12-03 | 10-K |
| 2006-09-30 | 1,874 | 2006-12-04 | 10-K |
| 2005-09-30 | 1,933 | 2005-11-22 | 10-K |
| 2004-09-30 | 1,921 | 2004-11-19 | 10-K |
| 2003-09-30 | 1,944 | 2003-11-21 | 10-K |
| 2002-09-30 | 1,948 | 2002-12-05 | 10-K |
| 2001-09-30 | 1,997 | 2001-12-21 | 10-K405 |
Limits of this reading
- The U.S. share of 1 rests on the filing's U.S. service territories, not a stated count.
- The gas marketing and storage businesses have no count of their own and stay inside the distribution pattern.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001193125-25-282583, 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 Spire Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 34% now and 44% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Spire 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 Spire Inc. employ?
- 3,497 as of September 30, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending September 30, 2025 states. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Spire Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Natural Gas Distribution; by those patterns the work is about 45% desk work, 16% 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 Spire 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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