SouthState Bank Corp. (SSB)

Regional bank across eight states, all U.S. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 20, 2026. Ranked 24 of the 101 Financial Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

SouthState’s 6,393 full-time and part-time team members, all in the United States, run a commercial bank across an eight-state footprint, read as one banking pattern.

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: 40% now, 58% at the end of 2027, 66% at the end of 2028, 68% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 68% desk work, 23% people work and 9% 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 32% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 60% becomes checking a model's work and 6% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.

Headcount

6,393 employees as of December 31, 2025 (sum of stated parts). All team members live in the United States, by the filing; about 97% in the Bank’s eight-state branch footprint.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, we had 6,190 full-time employees (compared to 4,986 as of the same date in 2024) and 203 part-time team members.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 6,190 full-time employees and 203 part-time team members, 6,317 full-time equivalents; about 97% in the eight-state footprint (Florida 26%, South Carolina 26%, Texas 14%, Georgia 14%); 1,786 hired in 2025; voluntary turnover 11.8%; no collective bargaining.

Companies read with the same leading pattern

Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Credit Intermediation and Related Activities (5221 and 5223 only), largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.

• JPMorgan Chase (JPM, 318,512 employees)37% now, 68% by 2028
• Citigroup (C, 226,000 employees)38% now, 68% by 2028
• Bank of America (BAC, 213,000 employees)39% now, 67% by 2028
• Wells Fargo (WFC, 205,000 employees)39% now, 67% by 2028
• Capital One Financial Corporation (COF, 76,300 employees)40% now, 66% by 2028
• U.S. Bancorp (USB, 68,520 employees)40% now, 66% by 2028
• The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (PNC, 55,333 employees)40% now, 66% by 2028
• Mastercard Incorporated (MA, 39,800 employees)40% now, 66% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

28 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI 28 times: an AI strategy to adopt capabilities internally and from vendors with controls, and AI among the technologies that may disrupt banking.

• “These risks include, but are not limited to, the following: Risks related to our Business and Business Strategy : ● our ability to continue to integrate and realize the benefits of the merger between SouthState and Independent; ● our ability to grow or to manage our growth effectively; ● our ability to realize the benefits expected from strategic initiatives; ● our ability to adequately anticip...”
• “Our current initiatives include, but are not limited to, organically growing our business in our core market and surrounding areas, continuing to grow our middle market and larger corporate banking and correspondent divisions, implementing an AI strategy to be able to adopt appropriate AI capabilities internally and from vendors to enhance our efficiency with appropriate controls in place to ma...”
• “Failure to successfully manage these risks in the development and implementation of new lines of business and/or new products or services could have a material adverse effect on our business and, in turn, our financial condition and results of operations. ​ Technological changes, including artificial intelligence and online and mobile banking, have the potential of disrupting our business model...”
• “The financial services industry continues to undergo rapid technological changes with frequent introductions of new technology-driven products and services, including artificial intelligence tools to enhance efficiencies, as well as mobile and online banking services.”
• “In addition to serving clients better, investments in, and the effective use of, technology, including artificial intelligence, may increase efficiency and may enable financial institutions to reduce costs.”

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 202318median 1
• Fiscal 202423median 4
• Fiscal 202528median 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.

Limits of this reading

• The collector’s 6,190 was the full-time count; the filing also states 203 part-time team members, summed (rule 2); 6,317 full-time equivalents is also stated.
• The headcount series jumps from 4,986 to 6,190 with the merger with Independent; the years are not like for like.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001104659-26-017884, 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.