Across 11 industries and 108 named companies, EH&S and occupational health runs 0.2% to 7.5% of SG&A headcount, median 1.7%. In people that is 0.2 to 22.1 per 1,000 employees, median 3.8. The lean quartile is 0.9% of SG&A headcount and the heavy quartile 2.6%. Measured from 432,253 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 | Eh&s and occupational health share of SG&A, median | Range | Lean quartile | Heavy quartile | Per 1,000 employees, median | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Packaging & container | 12 | 3.2% | 0.5% to 6.8% | 2.5% | 3.8% | 5.2 | September 2026 |
| Building products | 9 | 2.4% | 0.4% to 7.5% | 2.3% | 3.7% | 6.4 | July 2026 |
| Food & CPG | 13 | 2.2% | 1.3% to 4.6% | 1.8% | 2.6% | 7.0 | July 2026 |
| Coatings & specialty chemical | 13 | 2.2% | 0.6% to 6.5% | 1.2% | 3.0% | 5.1 | September 2026 |
| Apparel & footwear | 12 | 1.6% | 0.8% to 6.7% | 1.1% | 3.0% | 4.8 | August 2026 |
| Toy & game | 7 | 1.1% | 0.4% to 2.1% | n/a | n/a | 3.1 | August 2026 |
| Beverage | 10 | 1.0% | 0.6% to 1.6% | n/a | n/a | 2.5 | September 2026 |
| Tool & industrial | 7 | 0.9% | 0.7% to 2.6% | n/a | n/a | 2.9 | July 2026 |
| Furniture & furnishings | 9 | 0.9% | 0.3% to 4.2% | 0.6% | 1.1% | 2.2 | September 2026 |
| Appliance & housewares | 7 | 0.8% | 0.3% to 3.5% | n/a | n/a | 3.7 | September 2026 |
| Foodservice distribution | 9 | 0.7% | 0.2% to 2.5% | 0.4% | 0.9% | 0.9 | September 2026 |
| Company | Industry | Share of SG&A | Observed contacts | Employees | Per 1,000 employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UFP Industries | Building products | 7.5% | 214 | 13,800 | 15.5 |
| O-I Glass, Inc. | Packaging & container | 6.8% | 131 | 19,000 | 6.9 |
| Tapestry, Inc. | Apparel & footwear | 6.7% | 399 | 19,000 | 21.0 |
| Cabot Corporation | Coatings & specialty chemical | 6.5% | 90 | 4,064 | 22.1 |
| Crown Holdings, Inc. | Packaging & container | 5.6% | 113 | 23,000 | 4.9 |
| lululemon athletica inc. | Apparel & footwear | 5.1% | 241 | 39,000 | 6.2 |
| International Flavors & Fragrances | Food & CPG | 4.6% | 292 | 21,500 | 13.6 |
| Church & Dwight | Food & CPG | 4.5% | 110 | 5,550 | 19.8 |
| Ingredion | Food & CPG | 4.2% | 136 | 11,200 | 12.1 |
| Virco Manufacturing Corporation | Furniture & furnishings | 4.2% | 6 | 731 | 8.2 |
| Sonoco Products Company | Packaging & container | 4.1% | 120 | 22,000 | 5.5 |
| Trex Company | Building products | 3.8% | 20 | 1,839 | 10.9 |
| Louisiana-Pacific | Building products | 3.7% | 38 | 4,300 | 8.8 |
| Amcor plc | Packaging & container | 3.6% | 299 | 75,000 | 4.0 |
| Whirlpool Corporation | Appliance & housewares | 3.5% | 358 | 41,000 | 8.7 |
| Ashland Inc. | Coatings & specialty chemical | 3.5% | 49 | 2,900 | 16.9 |
| Carter's, Inc. | Apparel & footwear | 3.4% | 94 | 15,400 | 6.1 |
| Ball Corporation | Packaging & container | 3.3% | 127 | 16,000 | 7.9 |
| Greif, Inc. | Packaging & container | 3.3% | 69 | 12,000 | 5.8 |
| Graphic Packaging Holding Company | Packaging & container | 3.2% | 127 | 23,000 | 5.5 |
| Avient Corporation | Coatings & specialty chemical | 3.1% | 81 | 9,000 | 9.0 |
| Quaker Houghton | Coatings & specialty chemical | 3.0% | 24 | 4,700 | 5.1 |
| JELD-WEN | Building products | 2.8% | 89 | 13,900 | 6.4 |
| Stanley Black & Decker | Tool & industrial | 2.6% | 369 | 43,500 | 8.5 |
| Conagra Brands | Food & CPG | 2.6% | 94 | 17,400 | 5.4 |
| H.B. Fuller Company | Coatings & specialty chemical | 2.6% | 73 | 7,100 | 10.3 |
| Sealed Air Corporation | Packaging & container | 2.6% | 108 | 16,100 | 6.7 |
| The Clorox Company | Food & CPG | 2.5% | 111 | 7,600 | 14.6 |
| Columbia Sportswear Company | Apparel & footwear | 2.5% | 64 | 9,620 | 6.7 |
| AptarGroup, Inc. | Packaging & container | 2.5% | 44 | 14,000 | 3.1 |
| Dot Foods | Foodservice distribution | 2.5% | 34 | 6,300 | 5.4 |
| Simpson Strong-Tie | Building products | 2.4% | 38 | 3,000 | 12.7 |
| The Kraft Heinz Company | Food & CPG | 2.4% | 398 | 35,000 | 11.4 |
| Packaging Corporation of America | Packaging & container | 2.4% | 55 | 16,800 | 3.3 |
| Masonite International | Building products | 2.3% | 27 | 10,000 | 2.7 |
| James Hardie | Building products | 2.3% | 15 | 7,500 | 2.0 |
| Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. | Coatings & specialty chemical | 2.3% | 85 | 12,200 | 7.0 |
| The J.M. Smucker Company | Food & CPG | 2.2% | 69 | 8,000 | 8.6 |
| Oxford Industries, Inc. | Apparel & footwear | 2.2% | 26 | 6,000 | 4.3 |
| PPG Industries, Inc. | Coatings & specialty chemical | 2.2% | 256 | 43,500 | 5.9 |
| The Hershey Company | Food & CPG | 2.1% | 140 | 20,000 | 7.0 |
| Crayola LLC | Toy & game | 2.1% | 14 | 2,464 | 5.7 |
| RPM International Inc. | Coatings & specialty chemical | 2.1% | 80 | 17,546 | 4.6 |
| PVH Corp. | Apparel & footwear | 2.0% | 175 | 26,000 | 6.7 |
| Avery Dennison Corporation | Packaging & container | 2.0% | 136 | 35,000 | 3.9 |
| Kennametal Inc. | Tool & industrial | 1.9% | 63 | 8,100 | 7.8 |
| Mondelez International | Food & CPG | 1.8% | 343 | 91,000 | 3.8 |
| General Mills | Food & CPG | 1.8% | 225 | 33,000 | 6.8 |
| Gibraltar Industries | Building products | 1.7% | 11 | 2,300 | 4.8 |
| McCormick & Company | Food & CPG | 1.7% | 78 | 14,100 | 5.5 |
| The LEGO Group | Toy & game | 1.6% | 102 | 33,000 | 3.1 |
| Constellation Brands, Inc. | Beverage | 1.6% | 40 | 9,400 | 4.3 |
| The Campbell's Company | Food & CPG | 1.3% | 47 | 13,700 | 3.4 |
| Hormel Foods | Food & CPG | 1.3% | 41 | 20,000 | 2.1 |
| VF Corporation | Apparel & footwear | 1.3% | 135 | 26,000 | 5.2 |
| Innospec Inc. | Coatings & specialty chemical | 1.3% | 7 | 2,450 | 2.9 |
| Under Armour, Inc. | Apparel & footwear | 1.2% | 34 | 14,100 | 2.4 |
| La-Z-Boy Incorporated | Furniture & furnishings | 1.2% | 22 | 10,200 | 2.2 |
| Mattel, Inc. | Toy & game | 1.1% | 77 | 31,000 | 2.5 |
| Levi Strauss & Co. | Apparel & footwear | 1.1% | 77 | 19,000 | 4.1 |
| Deckers Outdoor Corporation | Apparel & footwear | 1.1% | 21 | 6,000 | 3.5 |
| Bassett Furniture Industries | Furniture & furnishings | 1.1% | 7 | 1,194 | 5.9 |
| Primo Brands Corporation | Beverage | 1.1% | 25 | 12,000 | 2.1 |
| Newell Brands Inc. | Appliance & housewares | 1.1% | 80 | 21,900 | 3.7 |
| Sensient Technologies Corporation | Coatings & specialty chemical | 1.1% | 14 | 4,070 | 3.4 |
| IDEAL Industries | Tool & industrial | 1.0% | 5 | 2,502 | 2.0 |
| Ralph Lauren Corporation | Apparel & footwear | 1.0% | 72 | 23,600 | 3.1 |
| Molson Coors Beverage Company | Beverage | 1.0% | 50 | 16,200 | 3.1 |
| Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. | Beverage | 1.0% | 46 | 30,600 | 1.5 |
| SharkNinja, Inc. | Appliance & housewares | 1.0% | 19 | 4,143 | 4.6 |
| Ecolab Inc. | Coatings & specialty chemical | 1.0% | 192 | 48,000 | 4.0 |
| Sysco Corporation | Foodservice distribution | 1.0% | 185 | 75,000 | 2.5 |
| Klein Tools | Tool & industrial | 0.9% | 5 | 2,500 | 2.0 |
| Interface, Inc. | Furniture & furnishings | 0.9% | 10 | 3,570 | 2.8 |
| United Natural Foods, Inc. | Foodservice distribution | 0.9% | 61 | 25,600 | 2.4 |
| Snap-on Incorporated | Tool & industrial | 0.8% | 43 | 13,000 | 3.3 |
| Enerpac Tool Group | Tool & industrial | 0.8% | 6 | 2,100 | 2.9 |
| Crocs, Inc. | Apparel & footwear | 0.8% | 19 | 8,010 | 2.4 |
| MillerKnoll, Inc. | Furniture & furnishings | 0.8% | 13 | 10,544 | 1.2 |
| Apex Tool Group | Tool & industrial | 0.7% | 10 | 5,300 | 1.9 |
| Ethan Allen Interiors Inc. | Furniture & furnishings | 0.7% | 7 | 3,062 | 2.3 |
| Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc. | Beverage | 0.7% | 24 | 16,000 | 1.5 |
| The Boston Beer Company, Inc. | Beverage | 0.7% | 9 | 2,736 | 3.3 |
| Performance Food Group Company | Foodservice distribution | 0.7% | 33 | 43,780 | 0.8 |
| Golden State Foods | Foodservice distribution | 0.7% | 3 | 6,000 | 0.5 |
| Brown-Forman Corporation | Beverage | 0.6% | 14 | 4,900 | 2.9 |
| Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. | Appliance & housewares | 0.6% | 14 | 3,000 | 4.7 |
| The Sherwin-Williams Company | Coatings & specialty chemical | 0.6% | 251 | 64,249 | 3.9 |
| Gordon Food Service | Foodservice distribution | 0.6% | 35 | 22,000 | 1.6 |
| Funko, Inc. | Toy & game | 0.5% | 3 | 1,104 | 2.7 |
| Haworth | Furniture & furnishings | 0.5% | 10 | 8,000 | 1.2 |
| Weber | Appliance & housewares | 0.5% | 3 | 4,302 | 0.7 |
| Silgan Holdings Inc. | Packaging & container | 0.5% | 5 | 17,320 | 0.3 |
| The AZEK Company | Building products | 0.4% | 1 | 2,276 | 0.4 |
| Hasbro, Inc. | Toy & game | 0.4% | 19 | 4,520 | 4.2 |
| HNI Corporation | Furniture & furnishings | 0.3% | 19 | 18,500 | 1.0 |
| Helen of Troy Limited | Appliance & housewares | 0.3% | 3 | 1,854 | 1.6 |
| US Foods Holding Corp. | Foodservice distribution | 0.2% | 28 | 30,000 | 0.9 |
| Ben E. Keith Company | Foodservice distribution | 0.2% | 4 | 5,600 | 0.7 |
| The Pokémon Company International | Toy & game | n/a | 3 | 2,663 | 1.1 |
| JAKKS Pacific, Inc. | Toy & game | n/a | 2 | 652 | 3.1 |
| Flexsteel Industries, Inc. | Furniture & furnishings | n/a | 1 | 1,200 | 0.8 |
| Monster Beverage Corporation | Beverage | n/a | 2 | 6,332 | 0.3 |
| National Beverage Corp. | Beverage | n/a | 1 | 1,677 | 0.6 |
| MGP Ingredients, Inc. | Beverage | n/a | 2 | 617 | 3.2 |
| YETI Holdings, Inc. | Appliance & housewares | n/a | 1 | 1,390 | 0.7 |
| WD-40 Company | Coatings & specialty chemical | n/a | 2 | 714 | 2.8 |
| Shamrock Foods Company | Foodservice distribution | n/a | 1 | 5,000 | 0.2 |
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 11 industries and 108 named companies, EH&S and occupational health runs 0.2% to 7.5% of SG&A headcount, median 1.7%. In people that is 0.2 to 22.1 per 1,000 employees, median 3.8. The lean quartile is 0.9% of SG&A headcount and the heavy quartile 2.6%. Measured from 432,253 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.
Packaging & container carries the most EH&S and occupational health, at a median of 3.2% of SG&A headcount. Foodservice distribution carries the least, at 0.7%. In between: building products 2.4%, food & CPG 2.2%, coatings & specialty chemical 2.2%, apparel & footwear 1.6%, toy & game 1.1%, beverage 1.0%, tool & industrial 0.9%, furniture & furnishings 0.9%, appliance & housewares 0.8%. Measured per 1,000 employees the order changes: foodservice distribution is thinnest at 0.9 and food & CPG is densest at 7.0.
Lean quartile is 0.9% of SG&A headcount and heavy quartile 2.6%, across 108 named companies. We say lean and heavy rather than top and bottom because a smaller EH&S and occupational health 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 EH&S and occupational health 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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