Across 12 industries and 126 named companies, CEO suite and business-unit leadership runs 3.4% to 24.0% of SG&A headcount, median 8.7%. In people that is 6.0 to 142.8 per 1,000 employees, median 24.9. The lean quartile is 6.8% of SG&A headcount and the heavy quartile 10.9%. Measured from 440,636 public job titles, each classified one at a time, at every company named on this page. September 2026.
Median of the named companies on each industry page. Click through for the per-function detail and the filed-spend table.
| Industry | Companies | Ceo suite and business-unit leadership share of SG&A, median | Range | Lean quartile | Heavy quartile | Per 1,000 employees, median | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Furniture & furnishings | 9 | 11.9% | 7.2% to 18.9% | 9.1% | 13.7% | 28.4 | September 2026 |
| Coatings & specialty chemical | 13 | 10.9% | 6.7% to 20.3% | 9.1% | 12.7% | 30.2 | September 2026 |
| Apparel & footwear | 12 | 10.1% | 5.8% to 24.0% | 8.4% | 11.4% | 26.1 | August 2026 |
| Packaging & container | 12 | 10.0% | 6.5% to 14.6% | 8.1% | 11.8% | 14.1 | September 2026 |
| Appliance & housewares | 10 | 8.6% | 6.5% to 11.7% | 6.7% | 10.2% | 43.5 | September 2026 |
| Building products | 9 | 8.4% | 6.3% to 10.9% | 6.8% | 8.9% | 20.0 | July 2026 |
| Beverage | 12 | 8.4% | 4.8% to 19.5% | 7.0% | 12.6% | 28.9 | September 2026 |
| B2B software | 10 | 8.0% | 4.3% to 14.7% | 6.0% | 9.9% | 39.0 | August 2026 |
| Food & CPG | 13 | 7.7% | 6.4% to 11.2% | 7.3% | 9.3% | 26.1 | July 2026 |
| Tool & industrial | 7 | 7.4% | 3.4% to 13.6% | n/a | n/a | 26.0 | July 2026 |
| Foodservice distribution | 10 | 6.7% | 4.7% to 20.0% | 6.2% | 9.3% | 14.8 | September 2026 |
| Toy & game | 9 | 5.8% | 4.7% to 7.4% | 5.1% | 7.1% | 29.0 | August 2026 |
| Company | Industry | Share of SG&A | Observed contacts | Employees | Per 1,000 employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Levi Strauss & Co. | Apparel & footwear | 24.0% | 1,645 | 19,000 | 86.6 |
| The Sherwin-Williams Company | Coatings & specialty chemical | 20.3% | 9,174 | 64,249 | 142.8 |
| Golden State Foods | Foodservice distribution | 20.0% | 89 | 6,000 | 14.8 |
| MGP Ingredients, Inc. | Beverage | 19.5% | 25 | 617 | 40.5 |
| Ethan Allen Interiors Inc. | Furniture & furnishings | 18.9% | 183 | 3,062 | 59.8 |
| Bassett Furniture Industries | Furniture & furnishings | 16.7% | 110 | 1,194 | 92.1 |
| nCino | B2B software | 14.7% | 70 | 1,684 | 41.6 |
| Ball Corporation | Packaging & container | 14.6% | 568 | 16,000 | 35.5 |
| Ashland Inc. | Coatings & specialty chemical | 14.4% | 203 | 2,900 | 70.0 |
| MillerKnoll, Inc. | Furniture & furnishings | 13.7% | 229 | 10,544 | 21.7 |
| IDEAL Industries | Tool & industrial | 13.6% | 65 | 2,502 | 26.0 |
| AptarGroup, Inc. | Packaging & container | 13.6% | 241 | 14,000 | 17.2 |
| Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. | Beverage | 13.2% | 622 | 30,600 | 20.3 |
| Quaker Houghton | Coatings & specialty chemical | 13.2% | 107 | 4,700 | 22.8 |
| Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc. | Beverage | 12.7% | 449 | 16,000 | 28.1 |
| Ecolab Inc. | Coatings & specialty chemical | 12.7% | 2,419 | 48,000 | 50.4 |
| The Boston Beer Company, Inc. | Beverage | 12.4% | 152 | 2,736 | 55.6 |
| O-I Glass, Inc. | Packaging & container | 12.3% | 238 | 19,000 | 12.5 |
| PVH Corp. | Apparel & footwear | 12.1% | 1,062 | 26,000 | 40.8 |
| Interface, Inc. | Furniture & furnishings | 12.1% | 140 | 3,570 | 39.2 |
| HNI Corporation | Furniture & furnishings | 11.9% | 683 | 18,500 | 36.9 |
| Whirlpool Corporation | Appliance & housewares | 11.7% | 1,200 | 41,000 | 29.3 |
| Cabot Corporation | Coatings & specialty chemical | 11.6% | 160 | 4,064 | 39.4 |
| lululemon athletica inc. | Apparel & footwear | 11.5% | 542 | 39,000 | 13.9 |
| RPM International Inc. | Coatings & specialty chemical | 11.5% | 441 | 17,546 | 25.1 |
| Oxford Industries, Inc. | Apparel & footwear | 11.3% | 132 | 6,000 | 22.0 |
| Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Company | Appliance & housewares | 11.3% | 36 | 650 | 55.4 |
| General Mills | Food & CPG | 11.2% | 1,425 | 33,000 | 43.2 |
| The Campbell's Company | Food & CPG | 11.2% | 412 | 13,700 | 30.1 |
| Silgan Holdings Inc. | Packaging & container | 11.2% | 120 | 17,320 | 6.9 |
| Constellation Brands, Inc. | Beverage | 11.0% | 279 | 9,400 | 29.7 |
| Gibraltar Industries | Building products | 10.9% | 71 | 2,300 | 30.9 |
| H.B. Fuller Company | Coatings & specialty chemical | 10.9% | 300 | 7,100 | 42.3 |
| PPG Industries, Inc. | Coatings & specialty chemical | 10.8% | 1,273 | 43,500 | 29.3 |
| Zuora | B2B software | 10.6% | 47 | 1,200 | 39.2 |
| Packaging Corporation of America | Packaging & container | 10.6% | 247 | 16,800 | 14.7 |
| United Natural Foods, Inc. | Foodservice distribution | 10.6% | 747 | 25,600 | 29.2 |
| Haworth | Furniture & furnishings | 10.5% | 227 | 8,000 | 28.4 |
| Under Armour, Inc. | Apparel & footwear | 10.3% | 282 | 14,100 | 20.0 |
| Crocs, Inc. | Apparel & footwear | 10.2% | 249 | 8,010 | 31.1 |
| SharkNinja, Inc. | Appliance & housewares | 10.2% | 190 | 4,143 | 45.9 |
| Sonoco Products Company | Packaging & container | 10.2% | 296 | 22,000 | 13.5 |
| Tapestry, Inc. | Apparel & footwear | 10.1% | 595 | 19,000 | 31.3 |
| Yext | B2B software | 9.9% | 71 | 1,120 | 63.4 |
| Ralph Lauren Corporation | Apparel & footwear | 9.8% | 674 | 23,600 | 28.6 |
| Greif, Inc. | Packaging & container | 9.8% | 204 | 12,000 | 17.0 |
| UFP Industries | Building products | 9.7% | 279 | 13,800 | 20.2 |
| Conagra Brands | Food & CPG | 9.6% | 346 | 17,400 | 19.9 |
| Sensient Technologies Corporation | Coatings & specialty chemical | 9.5% | 123 | 4,070 | 30.2 |
| Helen of Troy Limited | Appliance & housewares | 9.4% | 84 | 1,854 | 45.3 |
| YETI Holdings, Inc. | Appliance & housewares | 9.4% | 73 | 1,390 | 52.5 |
| Hormel Foods | Food & CPG | 9.3% | 303 | 20,000 | 15.2 |
| Deckers Outdoor Corporation | Apparel & footwear | 9.3% | 174 | 6,000 | 29.0 |
| Shamrock Foods Company | Foodservice distribution | 9.3% | 31 | 5,000 | 6.2 |
| BlackLine | B2B software | 9.1% | 76 | 1,850 | 41.1 |
| Flexsteel Industries, Inc. | Furniture & furnishings | 9.1% | 17 | 1,200 | 14.2 |
| Innospec Inc. | Coatings & specialty chemical | 9.1% | 48 | 2,450 | 19.6 |
| The Vita Coco Company, Inc. | Beverage | 9.0% | 28 | 336 | 83.3 |
| The AZEK Company | Building products | 8.9% | 32 | 2,276 | 14.1 |
| International Flavors & Fragrances | Food & CPG | 8.9% | 562 | 21,500 | 26.1 |
| Domo | B2B software | 8.8% | 46 | 876 | 52.5 |
| WD-40 Company | Coatings & specialty chemical | 8.8% | 42 | 714 | 58.8 |
| Avery Dennison Corporation | Packaging & container | 8.8% | 597 | 35,000 | 17.1 |
| Simpson Strong-Tie | Building products | 8.6% | 136 | 3,000 | 45.3 |
| Amcor plc | Packaging & container | 8.6% | 708 | 75,000 | 9.4 |
| Louisiana-Pacific | Building products | 8.4% | 86 | 4,300 | 20.0 |
| The Kraft Heinz Company | Food & CPG | 8.4% | 1,381 | 35,000 | 39.5 |
| Kennametal Inc. | Tool & industrial | 8.3% | 274 | 8,100 | 33.8 |
| Virco Manufacturing Corporation | Furniture & furnishings | 8.3% | 12 | 731 | 16.4 |
| Avient Corporation | Coatings & specialty chemical | 8.1% | 211 | 9,000 | 23.4 |
| Monster Beverage Corporation | Beverage | 7.9% | 322 | 6,332 | 50.9 |
| Enerpac Tool Group | Tool & industrial | 7.7% | 55 | 2,100 | 26.2 |
| The J.M. Smucker Company | Food & CPG | 7.7% | 240 | 8,000 | 30.0 |
| Primo Brands Corporation | Beverage | 7.7% | 176 | 12,000 | 14.7 |
| Weber | Appliance & housewares | 7.7% | 46 | 4,302 | 10.7 |
| The Hershey Company | Food & CPG | 7.6% | 493 | 20,000 | 24.6 |
| Columbia Sportswear Company | Apparel & footwear | 7.6% | 199 | 9,620 | 20.7 |
| Crown Holdings, Inc. | Packaging & container | 7.6% | 154 | 23,000 | 6.7 |
| Trex Company | Building products | 7.5% | 40 | 1,839 | 21.8 |
| The Clorox Company | Food & CPG | 7.5% | 328 | 7,600 | 43.2 |
| Snap-on Incorporated | Tool & industrial | 7.4% | 393 | 13,000 | 30.2 |
| Mattel, Inc. | Toy & game | 7.4% | 536 | 31,000 | 17.3 |
| MGA Entertainment, Inc. | Toy & game | 7.4% | 69 | 1,200 | 57.5 |
| Mondelez International | Food & CPG | 7.3% | 1,409 | 91,000 | 15.5 |
| Performance Food Group Company | Foodservice distribution | 7.3% | 366 | 43,780 | 8.4 |
| Apex Tool Group | Tool & industrial | 7.2% | 102 | 5,300 | 19.2 |
| La-Z-Boy Incorporated | Furniture & furnishings | 7.2% | 128 | 10,200 | 12.5 |
| The LEGO Group | Toy & game | 7.1% | 466 | 33,000 | 14.1 |
| Sprout Social | B2B software | 7.1% | 53 | 1,362 | 38.9 |
| Sealed Air Corporation | Packaging & container | 7.1% | 290 | 16,100 | 18.0 |
| Molson Coors Beverage Company | Beverage | 7.0% | 361 | 16,200 | 22.3 |
| National Beverage Corp. | Beverage | 7.0% | 12 | 1,677 | 7.2 |
| Church & Dwight | Food & CPG | 6.9% | 169 | 5,550 | 30.5 |
| Masonite International | Building products | 6.8% | 81 | 10,000 | 8.1 |
| James Hardie | Building products | 6.8% | 45 | 7,500 | 6.0 |
| Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. | Appliance & housewares | 6.8% | 148 | 3,000 | 49.3 |
| The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. | Foodservice distribution | 6.8% | 63 | 5,156 | 12.2 |
| McCormick & Company | Food & CPG | 6.7% | 301 | 14,100 | 21.3 |
| Carter's, Inc. | Apparel & footwear | 6.7% | 185 | 15,400 | 12.0 |
| Newell Brands Inc. | Appliance & housewares | 6.7% | 475 | 21,900 | 21.7 |
| Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. | Coatings & specialty chemical | 6.7% | 251 | 12,200 | 20.6 |
| Olo | B2B software | 6.6% | 12 | 915 | 13.1 |
| Cricut, Inc. | Appliance & housewares | 6.5% | 22 | 700 | 31.4 |
| Traeger, Inc. | Appliance & housewares | 6.5% | 18 | 433 | 41.6 |
| Graphic Packaging Holding Company | Packaging & container | 6.5% | 257 | 23,000 | 11.2 |
| US Foods Holding Corp. | Foodservice distribution | 6.5% | 729 | 30,000 | 24.3 |
| Ingredion | Food & CPG | 6.4% | 208 | 11,200 | 18.6 |
| JELD-WEN | Building products | 6.3% | 200 | 13,900 | 14.4 |
| Sysco Corporation | Foodservice distribution | 6.2% | 1,103 | 75,000 | 14.7 |
| Gordon Food Service | Foodservice distribution | 6.2% | 372 | 22,000 | 16.9 |
| Hasbro, Inc. | Toy & game | 6.0% | 259 | 4,520 | 57.3 |
| PagerDuty | B2B software | 6.0% | 37 | 1,155 | 32.0 |
| Crayola LLC | Toy & game | 5.8% | 39 | 2,464 | 15.8 |
| VF Corporation | Apparel & footwear | 5.8% | 612 | 26,000 | 23.5 |
| Celsius Holdings, Inc. | Beverage | 5.8% | 49 | 1,497 | 32.7 |
| Amplitude | B2B software | 5.5% | 25 | 795 | 31.4 |
| Stanley Black & Decker | Tool & industrial | 5.4% | 775 | 43,500 | 17.8 |
| JAKKS Pacific, Inc. | Toy & game | 5.3% | 42 | 652 | 64.4 |
| Dot Foods | Foodservice distribution | 5.3% | 71 | 6,300 | 11.3 |
| Funko, Inc. | Toy & game | 5.1% | 32 | 1,104 | 29.0 |
| Spin Master Corp. | Toy & game | 4.9% | 103 | 3,000 | 34.3 |
| Brown-Forman Corporation | Beverage | 4.8% | 115 | 4,900 | 23.5 |
| The Pokémon Company International | Toy & game | 4.7% | 43 | 2,663 | 16.1 |
| Ben E. Keith Company | Foodservice distribution | 4.7% | 108 | 5,600 | 19.3 |
| Semrush | B2B software | 4.3% | 35 | 1,567 | 22.3 |
| Klein Tools | Tool & industrial | 3.4% | 19 | 2,500 | 7.6 |
Three steps, the same for every company on the page. The long version, including what these numbers cannot tell you, is on how it’s measured and as data at methodology.json.
We pull each company's public workforce signals: department tallies and the actual job titles behind them. No survey, no self-reporting, no login.
Each title is classified into the ten-function SG&A map. This is where about a third of department labels move: procurement buyers filed under Finance, whole Sourcing and Facilities teams hiding inside Operations.
Levels are the classified people we actually observed, capped at each company's profile-visible workforce. That makes them a floor, never an inflated model, which is why the share of SG&A leads and the per-1,000 figure follows.
Across 12 industries and 126 named companies, CEO suite and business-unit leadership runs 3.4% to 24.0% of SG&A headcount, median 8.7%. In people that is 6.0 to 142.8 per 1,000 employees, median 24.9. The lean quartile is 6.8% of SG&A headcount and the heavy quartile 10.9%. Measured from 440,636 public job titles, each classified one at a time, at every company named on this page. September 2026. Use the share of SG&A to compare companies of different sizes.
Furniture & furnishings carries the most CEO suite and business-unit leadership, at a median of 11.9% of SG&A headcount. Toy & game carries the least, at 5.8%. In between: coatings & specialty chemical 10.9%, apparel & footwear 10.1%, packaging & container 10.0%, appliance & housewares 8.6%, building products 8.4%, beverage 8.4%, B2B software 8.0%, food & CPG 7.7%, tool & industrial 7.4%, foodservice distribution 6.7%. Measured per 1,000 employees the order changes: packaging & container is thinnest at 14.1 and appliance & housewares is densest at 43.5.
Lean quartile is 6.8% of SG&A headcount and heavy quartile 10.9%, across 126 named companies. We say lean and heavy rather than top and bottom because a smaller CEO suite and business-unit leadership team is not automatically the better one: lean = 25th percentile of staffing intensity (fewer people per unit), heavy = 75th. Quartiles are published for a cut of 8 or more companies; below that they are absent rather than estimated.
We read every public job title at each company and put it in one of ten SG&A functions, one title at a time. No survey, no self-reporting, and no company has to take part. The full method is at https://sgabenchmarking.com/how-its-measured/.
Take your CEO suite and business-unit leadership headcount as a share of your total SG&A headcount and read it against the range above. That comparison holds at any company size. If you want us to measure your company the same way we measured these, add it at the top of this page and we will email you the result.
Every number here is available as JSON, and any company can be compared against these cohorts over plain HTTP. No key, no form. Each response also names the next step.
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