Across 6 industries and 60 named companies, CEO suite and business-unit leadership is 3.4% to 24.0% of core SG&A headcount, median 7.6%. Observed CEO suite and business-unit leadership staff run 6.0 to 86.6 per 1,000 employees, median 26.1, a floor from public profiles rather than a full count. Job titles classified one by one; as of August 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 | Per 1,000 employees, median | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apparel & footwear | 12 | 10.1% | 5.8% to 24.0% | 26.1 | August 2026 |
| Building products | 9 | 8.4% | 6.3% to 10.9% | 20.0 | July 2026 |
| B2B software | 10 | 8.0% | 4.3% to 14.7% | 39.0 | August 2026 |
| Food & CPG | 13 | 7.7% | 6.4% to 11.2% | 26.1 | July 2026 |
| Tool & industrial | 7 | 7.4% | 3.4% to 13.6% | 26.0 | July 2026 |
| Toy & game | 9 | 5.8% | 4.7% to 7.4% | 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 |
| nCino | B2B software | 14.7% | 70 | 1,684 | 41.6 |
| IDEAL Industries | Tool & industrial | 13.6% | 65 | 2,502 | 26.0 |
| PVH Corp. | Apparel & footwear | 12.1% | 1,062 | 26,000 | 40.8 |
| lululemon athletica inc. | Apparel & footwear | 11.5% | 542 | 39,000 | 13.9 |
| Oxford Industries, Inc. | Apparel & footwear | 11.3% | 132 | 6,000 | 22.0 |
| 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 |
| Gibraltar Industries | Building products | 10.9% | 71 | 2,300 | 30.9 |
| Zuora | B2B software | 10.6% | 47 | 1,200 | 39.2 |
| Under Armour, Inc. | Apparel & footwear | 10.3% | 282 | 14,100 | 20.0 |
| Crocs, Inc. | Apparel & footwear | 10.2% | 249 | 8,010 | 31.1 |
| 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 |
| UFP Industries | Building products | 9.7% | 279 | 13,800 | 20.2 |
| Conagra Brands | Food & CPG | 9.6% | 346 | 17,400 | 19.9 |
| Hormel Foods | Food & CPG | 9.3% | 303 | 20,000 | 15.2 |
| Deckers Outdoor Corporation | Apparel & footwear | 9.3% | 174 | 6,000 | 29.0 |
| BlackLine | B2B software | 9.1% | 76 | 1,850 | 41.1 |
| 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 |
| Simpson Strong-Tie | Building products | 8.6% | 136 | 3,000 | 45.3 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| The Hershey Company | Food & CPG | 7.6% | 493 | 20,000 | 24.6 |
| Columbia Sportswear Company | Apparel & footwear | 7.6% | 199 | 9,620 | 20.7 |
| 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 |
| Apex Tool Group | Tool & industrial | 7.2% | 102 | 5,300 | 19.2 |
| The LEGO Group | Toy & game | 7.1% | 466 | 33,000 | 14.1 |
| Sprout Social | B2B software | 7.1% | 53 | 1,362 | 38.9 |
| 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 |
| McCormick & Company | Food & CPG | 6.7% | 301 | 14,100 | 21.3 |
| Carter's, Inc. | Apparel & footwear | 6.7% | 185 | 15,400 | 12.0 |
| Olo | B2B software | 6.6% | 12 | 915 | 13.1 |
| Ingredion | Food & CPG | 6.4% | 208 | 11,200 | 18.6 |
| JELD-WEN | Building products | 6.3% | 200 | 13,900 | 14.4 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Funko, Inc. | Toy & game | 5.1% | 32 | 1,104 | 29.0 |
| Spin Master Corp. | Toy & game | 4.9% | 103 | 3,000 | 34.3 |
| The Pokémon Company International | Toy & game | 4.7% | 43 | 2,663 | 16.1 |
| 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 6 industries and 60 named companies, CEO suite and business-unit leadership is 3.4% to 24.0% of core SG&A headcount, median 7.6%. Observed CEO suite and business-unit leadership staff run 6.0 to 86.6 per 1,000 employees, median 26.1, a floor from public profiles rather than a full count. Job titles classified one by one; as of August 2026. The like-for-like read is the share of SG&A; the per-1,000 figure understates true staffing because public-profile coverage varies by company.
Apparel & footwear: median 10.1% of SG&A, 26.1 per 1,000 employees; Building products: median 8.4% of SG&A, 20.0 per 1,000 employees; B2B software: median 8.0% of SG&A, 39.0 per 1,000 employees; Food & CPG: median 7.7% of SG&A, 26.1 per 1,000 employees; Tool & industrial: median 7.4% of SG&A, 26.0 per 1,000 employees; Toy & game: median 5.8% of SG&A, 29.0 per 1,000 employees.
Each company's public professional profiles are classified into ten SG&A functions from the actual job title, one title at a time, then capped at the company's social-profile-visible workforce. Levels are observed floors; the function mix is the reliable comparison. Full method and limits at https://sgabenchmarking.com/methodology.json.
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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