Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. (SWX)
Natural gas utility, FTE count. Read November 9, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 25, 2026. Ranked 15 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
2,453
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%
The filing states 2,453 regular full-time equivalent employees at Southwest Gas at December 31, 2025 and describes one natural gas distribution utility, so the whole workforce is read at natural gas distribution by 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: 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
2,453 employees as of December 31, 2025 (full-time equivalent). The filing describes a natural gas utility serving Arizona, Nevada and California and nothing abroad; recorded as 1 without a stated figure, flagged.
The filing: “At December 31, 2025, Southwest Gas had 2,453 regular full-time equivalent employees.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Natural Gas Distribution | 100% | The filing describes Southwest Gas, a natural gas distribution utility whose employees provide safe and reliable service to customers, with no count by function, so the whole workforce is read at natural gas distribution by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: 2,453 regular full-time equivalent employees at Southwest Gas at December 31, 2025; average tenure about 11 years; employees of the southern California division voted in the United Steelworkers in 2024 with contract negotiations ongoing; a pension for employees hired through 2021.
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
- Spire Inc. (SR, 3,497 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
0 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names artificial intelligence in no sentence.
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 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20250median 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 | 2,453 | 2026-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 2,435 | 2025-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 2,371 | 2024-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 2,351 | 2023-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 2,286 | 2022-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 2,272 | 2021-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 2,295 | 2020-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 2,312 | 2019-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 2,285 | 2018-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 2,247 | 2017-02-28 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The headcount is a full-time equivalent figure for the Southwest Gas utility (rule 2); the holding company's own staff are not counted in the excerpt, and the data service's segment table (infrastructure services) describes the Centuri business the excerpt does not count.
- The U.S. share is recorded as 1 because the filing describes only U.S. operations, without stating it.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001692115-26-000062, 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 Southwest Gas Holdings, 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 Southwest Gas 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 Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc. employ?
- 2,453 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states, in full-time equivalents. About 100% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Southwest Gas Holdings, 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 Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 0 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0 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 9, 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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