Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (WAB)
Rail equipment maker in 50 countries. Read October 3, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 13, 2026. Ranked 52 of the 57 Industrials companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
15%
End of 2028
32%
Employees, annual report
31,000
Leading staffing pattern
Railroad Rolling Stock Manufacturing
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now15%
- End of 202726%
- End of 202832%
- End of 203035%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 65%
- Becomes checking a model's work 29%
- Handed over with lighter checks 3%
The filing states approximately 31,000 employees in freight and transit rail equipment, with no count by segment or country, so one pattern carries the whole workforce (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: 15% now, 26% at the end of 2027, 32% at the end of 2028, 35% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 35% desk work, 15% people work and 51% 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 65% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 29% becomes checking a model's work and 3% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
31,000 employees as of December 31, 2025 (stated). The filing states no count by country; the United States is 50% of sales.
The filing: “Wabtec has approximately 31,000 employees, excluding contingent workers, and operations in over 50 countries.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Railroad Rolling Stock Manufacturing | 100% | Locomotives, freight rail components and transit equipment (NAICS 3365, the SIC 3743 business), the Freight (72% of sales) and Transit (28%) segments both rail equipment; the filing counts no employees by segment, so one pattern by description (c). |
What the filing says about the workforce: Approximately 31,000 employees excluding contingent workers, in over 50 countries; a portion unionized, including about 1,400 locomotive manufacturing workers in Erie, Pennsylvania under a United Electrical Workers agreement.
What the filing says about AI
2 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI twice: a partnership with an artificial intelligence and robotics institution on freight rail technologies, and the advance of AI as a force accelerating innovation in the industry.
- “For example, we have partnered with a customer, as well as an artificial intelligence and robotics institution, to create technologies that will further decarbonize freight rail transport, improve freight safety, and generate greater rail network utilization.”
- “The advancement of artificial intelligence technologies may significantly accelerate the pace and broaden the scope of technological innovation impacting the industry.”
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 20212median 0
- Fiscal 20221median 0
- Fiscal 20231median 1
- Fiscal 20241median 4
- Fiscal 20252median 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 | 31,000 | 2026-02-13 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 29,500 | 2025-02-12 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 29,000 | 2024-02-14 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 27,000 | 2023-02-15 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 25,000 | 2022-02-17 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 27,000 | 2021-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 27,500 | 2020-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 18,000 | 2019-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 18,000 | 2018-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 20,000 | 2017-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 13,000 | 2016-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 12,600 | 2015-02-20 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 10,234 | 2014-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 9,253 | 2013-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 8,648 | 2012-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 6,654 | 2011-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 5,812 | 2010-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 7,295 | 2009-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 6,023 | 2008-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 5,317 | 2007-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 5,229 | 2006-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2004-12-31 | 4,905 | 2005-03-16 | 10-K |
| 2003-12-31 | 4,482 | 2004-03-15 | 10-K |
| 2002-12-31 | 4,409 | 2003-03-31 | 10-K |
| 2001-12-31 | 4,436 | 2002-04-01 | 10-K |
| 2000-12-30 | 6,244 | 2001-03-28 | 10-K |
| 1999-12-31 | 6,500 | 2000-03-28 | 10-K405 |
| 1998-12-31 | 4,300 | 1999-03-25 | 10-K |
| 1997-12-31 | 3,400 | 1998-03-20 | 10-K |
| 1996-12-31 | 3,181 | 1997-03-26 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- One pattern by description (c): the filing counts no employees by segment.
- No count by country; the U.S. share is not stated.
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-008067, 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.
Questions about this company
- How much of Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 15% now and 32% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies 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 Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation employ?
- 31,000 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states.
- What kinds of work make up Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 1 industry staffing pattern, the largest Railroad Rolling Stock Manufacturing; by those patterns the work is about 35% desk work, 15% people work and 51% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 2 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 2, 1, 1, 1 and 2 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 3, 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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