Vulcan Materials Company (VMC)
Aggregates quarries with asphalt and concrete plants. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 19, 2026. Ranked 32 of the 43 Basic Materials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
16%
End of 2028
24%
Employees, annual report
11,548
Leading staffing pattern
Nonmetallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now16%
- End of 202722%
- End of 202824%
- End of 203024%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 71%
- Becomes checking a model's work 22%
- Handed over with lighter checks 6%
Vulcan states 11,172 employees in the United States at January 1, 2026 and 376 in Mexico, Honduras, Canada and the Bahamas, 11,548 together, with no count by segment, so the quarries, the asphalt plants and the ready-mix plants take their revenue shares (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: 16% now, 22% at the end of 2027, 24% at the end of 2028, 24% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 24% desk work, 9% people work and 66% 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 71% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 22% 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
11,548 employees as of January 1, 2026 (sum of stated parts). The filing counts 11,172 employees in the United States and 376 in Mexico, Honduras, Canada and the Bahamas (97% U.S.).
The filing: “As of January 1, 2026, we employed 11,172 people in the United States. Also, as of that date, we employed 280 people in Mexico, 32 people in Honduras, 63 people in Canada, and 1 person in the Bahamas.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Nonmetallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying | 75% | The Aggregates segment, the quarries and sales yards, is 75% of revenue and the filing counts no employees by segment, so the quarries take three quarters by revenue (c). |
| Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing | 15% | The Asphalt segment, the asphalt mix plants, is 15% of revenue with no employee count, so it takes that share by revenue at the group that holds asphalt paving mixtures (c). |
| Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing | 10% | The Concrete segment, the ready-mixed concrete plants, is 10% of revenue with no employee count, so it takes that share by revenue (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: 1,057 of the U.S. employees and 218 of those abroad are represented by labor unions (11% together); the counts are by country, not by segment.
Companies read with the same leading pattern
Other companies whose largest staffing pattern is also Nonmetallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying, largest first, each read from its own annual report. Within reach now and at the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- The Mosaic Company (MOS, 13,249 employees)19% now, 29% by 2028
- Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. (MLM, 9,600 employees)15% now, 22% by 2028
What the filing says about AI
3 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing says it has started to assess and use AI to drive business value, and names AI's adoption as intensifying cybersecurity risks and the risk of deficient, inaccurate or biased outputs.
- “Additionally, we have started to assess and use artificial intelligence (AI) technology to drive further business value.”
- “In addition, the rapid evolution and increased adoption of AI and machine learning technologies may intensify our cybersecurity risks.”
- “The failure to keep secure the confidential and sensitive data about our business, employees, suppliers and customers (regardless of the reason for such failure); identify or resolve deficient, inaccurate or biased outputs from the use of AI; or comply with applicable laws, rules or regulations, could expose us, our employees, suppliers and/or our customers to the misuse of such data and could...”
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 20241median 4
- Fiscal 20253median 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 | 11,172 | 2026-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 11,436 | 2025-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 10,382 | 2024-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 12,000 | 2023-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 12,000 | 2022-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | not read | 2021-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 8,767 | 2020-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 8,782 | 2019-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 8,287 | 2018-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 7,149 | 2017-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 6,799 | 2016-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 6,598 | 2015-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 6,902 | 2014-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 6,727 | 2013-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 7,124 | 2012-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 7,749 | 2011-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 8,227 | 2010-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 9,320 | 2009-03-02 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 10,522 | 2008-02-29 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The collector's pick was the U.S. count alone; the filing's country counts sum to 11,548 (rule 2).
- No count by segment: the three shares are by revenue (c).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-009546, 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 Vulcan Materials Company's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 16% now and 24% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Vulcan Materials Company'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 Vulcan Materials Company employ?
- 11,548 as of January 1, 2026, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states as the sum of the parts it gives. About 97% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up Vulcan Materials Company's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 3 industry staffing patterns, the largest Nonmetallic Mineral Mining and Quarrying; by those patterns the work is about 24% desk work, 9% people work and 66% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Vulcan Materials Company's annual report say about AI?
- 3 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 1, 1 and 3 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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