Western Alliance Bancorporation (WAL)

Western regional bank, full-time equivalents. Read November 8, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 23, 2026. Ranked 125 of the 173 Financial Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.

Western Alliance Bancorporation states 3,769 full-time equivalent employees in a commercial and specialty banking business read whole at commercial banking.

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: 56% now, 66% at the end of 2027, 68% 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), 61% 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

3,769 employees as of December 31, 2025 (full-time equivalent). The filing describes a bank based in Phoenix with offices across the western United States and states no count by country; recorded as 1 with a flag.

The filing: “As of December 31, 2025, the Company employed 3,769 full-time equivalent employees, an increase of 7% from December 31, 2024.”

The workforce as industry patterns

What the filing says about the workforce: 3,769 full-time equivalent employees, up 7% in the year and from 1,915 in 2020; no union; early career programs (internships, CBDP, iLEAD) and ten Business Resource Groups.

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. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.

• JPMorgan Chase (JPM, 318,512 employees)56% now, 70% by 2028
• Citigroup (C, 226,000 employees)57% now, 70% by 2028
• Bank of America (BAC, 213,000 employees)57% now, 69% by 2028
• Wells Fargo (WFC, 205,000 employees)57% now, 69% by 2028
• Capital One Financial Corporation (COF, 76,300 employees)56% now, 68% by 2028
• U.S. Bancorp (USB, 68,520 employees)56% now, 68% by 2028
• The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (PNC, 55,333 employees)56% now, 68% by 2028
• Mastercard Incorporated (MA, 39,800 employees)56% now, 68% by 2028

What the filing says about AI

12 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in its glossary and risk factors: the evolution and adoption of AI technologies may increase its operational and cybersecurity risks and open new entry points for cyber threats, in 12 sentences.

• “TERMS: ACL Allowance for Credit Losses EaR Earnings at Risk IT Information Technology AFS Available-for-Sale EBO Early Buyout LGD Loss Given Default AI Artificial Intelligence ECR Earnings Credit Rates LIHTC Low-Income Housing Tax Credit ALCO Asset and Liability Management Committee EGRRCPA The Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act MBS Mortgage-Backed Securities AML/CF...”
• “Additionally, the continued evolution and increased usage of AI technologies may further increase these risks.”
• “The rapid evolution and increased adoption of AI technologies has introduced additional vulnerabilities and potential entry points for cyber threats.”
• “The financial services industry is continually undergoing rapid technological change with frequent introductions of new technology-driven products and services, largely related to increased digitization of banking services and capabilities (including those related to or involving AI, machine learning, blockchain, and other technologies) and mobile banking solutions.”
• “The development and use of AI presents risks and challenges that may adversely impact our business We or our third-party (or fourth-party) vendors, customers or counterparties develop or incorporate AI technology in certain business processes, services or products.”

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 20242median 4
• Fiscal 202512median 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 U.S. share of 1 rests on the filing's description of a western U.S. bank, not a stated count.

Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001628280-26-010336, 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.