Valero Energy Corporation (VLO)
Refineries, 9,811 employees, 83% U.S. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 25, 2026. Ranked 4 of the 26 Energy companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
22%
End of 2028
39%
Employees, annual report
9,811
Leading staffing pattern
Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now22%
- End of 202733%
- End of 202839%
- End of 203040%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 60%
- Becomes checking a model's work 33%
- Handed over with lighter checks 5%
Valero's table counts 9,811 employees at December 31, 2025, 8,182 in the U.S., 638 in Canada, 821 in the U.K. and Ireland and 170 in Mexico and Peru, 1,782 under collective bargaining agreements, running refineries with ethanol and renewable diesel plants at 8% of revenue and no count by segment, so one pattern takes the whole workforce at petroleum products by description (c).
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: 22% now, 33% at the end of 2027, 39% at the end of 2028, 40% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 41% desk work, 12% people work and 48% 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 60% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 33% becomes checking a model's work and 5% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
9,811 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing's table counts 8,182 of 9,811 employees in the U.S. (83%), 638 in Canada, 821 in the U.K. and Ireland and 170 in Mexico and Peru.
The filing: “Headcount On December 31, 2025, we had 9,811 employees. These employees were located in the following countries: U.S. 8,182; Canada 638; U.K. and Ireland 821; Mexico and Peru 170; Total 9,811.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing | 100% | The filing describes refineries with ethanol and renewable diesel plants at 8% of revenue and counts employees by country, not by segment, so one pattern takes the whole workforce at petroleum products by description (c), the uncounted ethanol plants folding in under rule 5. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 1,782 employees (18%) covered by collective bargaining or similar agreements; 9,785 in permanent full-time positions; about 11% of U.S. employees are veterans and reservists.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC, 18,500 employees)22% now, 40% by 2028
- Phillips 66 (PSX, 12,600 employees)23% now, 39% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
6 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI, data centers and crypto mining among the loads that may strain electricity supplies, AI as a tool of threat actors, and its vendors' growing use of AI-powered platforms.
- “Growing electrification and rapidly developing and increasing technology use (such as artificial intelligence (AI), computer processing, cryptocurrency mining, and cloud storage, as well as the data centers and power supplies required to support these activities) will also likely increase the intermittency and decrease the reliability of electricity supplies, particularly for grids highly depen...”
- “AI may also be leveraged by threat actors to enhance the volume and sophistication of their attacks.”
- “Our vendors and suppliers are also increasingly using and offering platforms powered by AI.”
- “The continuing and evolving threat of cybersecurity incidents (including through AI) has resulted in increased regulatory focus on prevention and disclosure, such as the directive issued by the U.S.”
- “The growing sophistication and implementation of advanced AI technologies also increases the risks we face related to data privacy and security.”
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 20231median 1
- Fiscal 20243median 4
- Fiscal 20256median 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 | 9,811 | 2026-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 9,922 | 2025-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 9,908 | 2024-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 9,743 | 2023-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 9,813 | 2022-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 9,964 | 2021-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 10,222 | 2020-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 10,261 | 2019-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 10,015 | 2018-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 9,996 | 2017-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 10,103 | 2016-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 10,065 | 2015-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 10,007 | 2014-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 21,671 | 2013-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 21,942 | 2012-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 20,313 | 2011-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 20,920 | 2010-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 21,765 | 2009-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 21,651 | 2008-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 21,836 | 2007-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 22,068 | 2006-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 19,797 | 2005-03-14 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 19,947 | 2004-03-12 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 20,000 | 2003-03-21 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 22,452 | 2002-03-14 | 10-K405 |
| 2000-12-31 | 3,180 | 2001-02-23 | 10-K405 |
| 1999-12-31 | 2,518 | 2000-03-08 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-12-31 | 2,500 | 1999-02-26 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 1,855 | 1998-03-02 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- No count by segment: the one pattern is by description (c); the ethanol and renewable diesel plants have no count and fold into it.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-011499, 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 Valero Energy Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 22% now and 39% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Valero Energy Corporation'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 Valero Energy Corporation employ?
- 9,811 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states. About 83% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Valero Energy Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 41% desk work, 12% people work and 48% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Valero Energy Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 6 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 1, 3 and 6 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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