Across 12 industries and 126 named companies, finance runs 3.9% to 24.7% of SG&A headcount, median 13.4%. In people that is 7.6 to 159.5 per 1,000 employees, median 35.7. The lean quartile is 10.7% of SG&A headcount and the heavy quartile 15.7%. 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 | Finance share of SG&A, median | Range | Lean quartile | Heavy quartile | Per 1,000 employees, median | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Packaging & container | 12 | 17.1% | 13.4% to 24.7% | 14.5% | 19.8% | 23.8 | September 2026 |
| Building products | 9 | 15.7% | 8.5% to 20.5% | 15.4% | 17.6% | 32.4 | July 2026 |
| Food & CPG | 13 | 14.5% | 11.3% to 23.1% | 13.5% | 15.4% | 45.3 | July 2026 |
| Tool & industrial | 7 | 14.0% | 9.7% to 19.6% | n/a | n/a | 43.0 | July 2026 |
| Beverage | 12 | 13.8% | 6.8% to 21.6% | 9.8% | 16.6% | 36.7 | September 2026 |
| Coatings & specialty chemical | 13 | 13.5% | 3.9% to 19.2% | 11.8% | 16.2% | 38.8 | September 2026 |
| Appliance & housewares | 10 | 13.4% | 9.5% to 16.9% | 10.9% | 13.9% | 57.3 | September 2026 |
| Apparel & footwear | 12 | 13.1% | 7.3% to 16.4% | 11.2% | 14.4% | 35.5 | August 2026 |
| Toy & game | 9 | 12.3% | 7.1% to 13.5% | 11.5% | 13.0% | 75.2 | August 2026 |
| Foodservice distribution | 10 | 11.1% | 8.7% to 17.1% | 9.4% | 16.8% | 24.6 | September 2026 |
| B2B software | 10 | 10.2% | 4.3% to 13.1% | 8.3% | 12.3% | 48.0 | August 2026 |
| Furniture & furnishings | 9 | 9.2% | 6.5% to 13.4% | 8.3% | 10.1% | 23.2 | September 2026 |
| Company | Industry | Share of SG&A | Observed contacts | Employees | Per 1,000 employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crown Holdings, Inc. | Packaging & container | 24.7% | 500 | 23,000 | 21.7 |
| Ingredion | Food & CPG | 23.1% | 748 | 11,200 | 66.8 |
| National Beverage Corp. | Beverage | 21.6% | 37 | 1,677 | 22.1 |
| Ball Corporation | Packaging & container | 20.7% | 808 | 16,000 | 50.5 |
| Gibraltar Industries | Building products | 20.5% | 133 | 2,300 | 57.8 |
| Greif, Inc. | Packaging & container | 20.5% | 427 | 12,000 | 35.6 |
| Enerpac Tool Group | Tool & industrial | 19.6% | 139 | 2,100 | 66.2 |
| Cabot Corporation | Coatings & specialty chemical | 19.2% | 265 | 4,064 | 65.2 |
| Silgan Holdings Inc. | Packaging & container | 19.1% | 205 | 17,320 | 11.8 |
| The Clorox Company | Food & CPG | 18.9% | 830 | 7,600 | 109.2 |
| The J.M. Smucker Company | Food & CPG | 18.4% | 571 | 8,000 | 71.4 |
| Packaging Corporation of America | Packaging & container | 18.2% | 423 | 16,800 | 25.2 |
| MGP Ingredients, Inc. | Beverage | 18.0% | 23 | 617 | 37.3 |
| Sonoco Products Company | Packaging & container | 17.8% | 516 | 22,000 | 23.5 |
| James Hardie | Building products | 17.7% | 117 | 7,500 | 15.6 |
| Sensient Technologies Corporation | Coatings & specialty chemical | 17.7% | 230 | 4,070 | 56.5 |
| The AZEK Company | Building products | 17.6% | 63 | 2,276 | 27.7 |
| Golden State Foods | Foodservice distribution | 17.1% | 76 | 6,000 | 12.7 |
| Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. | Appliance & housewares | 16.9% | 368 | 3,000 | 122.7 |
| Hamilton Beach Brands Holding Company | Appliance & housewares | 16.9% | 54 | 650 | 83.1 |
| JELD-WEN | Building products | 16.8% | 527 | 13,900 | 37.9 |
| Innospec Inc. | Coatings & specialty chemical | 16.8% | 89 | 2,450 | 36.3 |
| Performance Food Group Company | Foodservice distribution | 16.8% | 837 | 43,780 | 19.1 |
| Dot Foods | Foodservice distribution | 16.8% | 225 | 6,300 | 35.7 |
| The Vita Coco Company, Inc. | Beverage | 16.7% | 52 | 336 | 154.8 |
| Primo Brands Corporation | Beverage | 16.5% | 377 | 12,000 | 31.4 |
| Oxford Industries, Inc. | Apparel & footwear | 16.4% | 191 | 6,000 | 31.8 |
| Amcor plc | Packaging & container | 16.3% | 1,349 | 75,000 | 18.0 |
| H.B. Fuller Company | Coatings & specialty chemical | 16.2% | 446 | 7,100 | 62.8 |
| Deckers Outdoor Corporation | Apparel & footwear | 16.0% | 299 | 6,000 | 49.8 |
| Louisiana-Pacific | Building products | 15.7% | 160 | 4,300 | 37.2 |
| Quaker Houghton | Coatings & specialty chemical | 15.7% | 127 | 4,700 | 27.0 |
| UFP Industries | Building products | 15.6% | 447 | 13,800 | 32.4 |
| AptarGroup, Inc. | Packaging & container | 15.5% | 274 | 14,000 | 19.6 |
| Masonite International | Building products | 15.4% | 184 | 10,000 | 18.4 |
| International Flavors & Fragrances | Food & CPG | 15.4% | 975 | 21,500 | 45.3 |
| Ashland Inc. | Coatings & specialty chemical | 15.4% | 217 | 2,900 | 74.8 |
| Apex Tool Group | Tool & industrial | 15.3% | 217 | 5,300 | 40.9 |
| O-I Glass, Inc. | Packaging & container | 15.0% | 290 | 19,000 | 15.3 |
| Conagra Brands | Food & CPG | 14.9% | 540 | 17,400 | 31.0 |
| Church & Dwight | Food & CPG | 14.8% | 360 | 5,550 | 64.9 |
| VF Corporation | Apparel & footwear | 14.7% | 1,563 | 26,000 | 60.1 |
| Stanley Black & Decker | Tool & industrial | 14.6% | 2,119 | 43,500 | 48.7 |
| Brown-Forman Corporation | Beverage | 14.6% | 350 | 4,900 | 71.4 |
| The Kraft Heinz Company | Food & CPG | 14.5% | 2,396 | 35,000 | 68.5 |
| Molson Coors Beverage Company | Beverage | 14.3% | 737 | 16,200 | 45.5 |
| Levi Strauss & Co. | Apparel & footwear | 14.2% | 975 | 19,000 | 51.3 |
| McCormick & Company | Food & CPG | 14.1% | 635 | 14,100 | 45.0 |
| IDEAL Industries | Tool & industrial | 14.0% | 67 | 2,502 | 26.8 |
| PVH Corp. | Apparel & footwear | 14.0% | 1,232 | 26,000 | 47.4 |
| Graphic Packaging Holding Company | Packaging & container | 14.0% | 552 | 23,000 | 24.0 |
| Newell Brands Inc. | Appliance & housewares | 13.9% | 994 | 21,900 | 45.4 |
| Sealed Air Corporation | Packaging & container | 13.9% | 568 | 16,100 | 35.3 |
| Weber | Appliance & housewares | 13.8% | 82 | 4,302 | 19.1 |
| General Mills | Food & CPG | 13.7% | 1,742 | 33,000 | 52.8 |
| Crocs, Inc. | Apparel & footwear | 13.7% | 334 | 8,010 | 41.7 |
| Kennametal Inc. | Tool & industrial | 13.5% | 446 | 8,100 | 55.1 |
| Hormel Foods | Food & CPG | 13.5% | 440 | 20,000 | 22.0 |
| MGA Entertainment, Inc. | Toy & game | 13.5% | 126 | 1,200 | 105.0 |
| Avient Corporation | Coatings & specialty chemical | 13.5% | 349 | 9,000 | 38.8 |
| Flexsteel Industries, Inc. | Furniture & furnishings | 13.4% | 25 | 1,200 | 20.8 |
| Traeger, Inc. | Appliance & housewares | 13.4% | 37 | 433 | 85.5 |
| Avery Dennison Corporation | Packaging & container | 13.4% | 907 | 35,000 | 25.9 |
| Constellation Brands, Inc. | Beverage | 13.3% | 339 | 9,400 | 36.1 |
| Helen of Troy Limited | Appliance & housewares | 13.3% | 119 | 1,854 | 64.2 |
| Funko, Inc. | Toy & game | 13.1% | 83 | 1,104 | 75.2 |
| Zuora | B2B software | 13.1% | 58 | 1,200 | 48.3 |
| JAKKS Pacific, Inc. | Toy & game | 13.0% | 104 | 652 | 159.5 |
| Cricut, Inc. | Appliance & housewares | 12.8% | 43 | 700 | 61.4 |
| The Campbell's Company | Food & CPG | 12.5% | 460 | 13,700 | 33.6 |
| PagerDuty | B2B software | 12.5% | 77 | 1,155 | 66.7 |
| Mattel, Inc. | Toy & game | 12.4% | 902 | 31,000 | 29.1 |
| Tapestry, Inc. | Apparel & footwear | 12.4% | 733 | 19,000 | 38.6 |
| United Natural Foods, Inc. | Foodservice distribution | 12.4% | 868 | 25,600 | 33.9 |
| Mondelez International | Food & CPG | 12.3% | 2,371 | 91,000 | 26.1 |
| Spin Master Corp. | Toy & game | 12.3% | 257 | 3,000 | 85.7 |
| BlackLine | B2B software | 12.3% | 103 | 1,850 | 55.7 |
| Ecolab Inc. | Coatings & specialty chemical | 12.3% | 2,354 | 48,000 | 49.0 |
| nCino | B2B software | 12.2% | 58 | 1,684 | 34.4 |
| Crayola LLC | Toy & game | 12.0% | 81 | 2,464 | 32.9 |
| Columbia Sportswear Company | Apparel & footwear | 11.9% | 312 | 9,620 | 32.4 |
| WD-40 Company | Coatings & specialty chemical | 11.9% | 57 | 714 | 79.8 |
| RPM International Inc. | Coatings & specialty chemical | 11.8% | 450 | 17,546 | 25.6 |
| PPG Industries, Inc. | Coatings & specialty chemical | 11.6% | 1,366 | 43,500 | 31.4 |
| Hasbro, Inc. | Toy & game | 11.5% | 499 | 4,520 | 110.4 |
| Under Armour, Inc. | Apparel & footwear | 11.5% | 314 | 14,100 | 22.3 |
| Haworth | Furniture & furnishings | 11.5% | 248 | 8,000 | 31.0 |
| Shamrock Foods Company | Foodservice distribution | 11.4% | 38 | 5,000 | 7.6 |
| The Hershey Company | Food & CPG | 11.3% | 739 | 20,000 | 36.9 |
| Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. | Beverage | 11.1% | 524 | 30,600 | 17.1 |
| Ralph Lauren Corporation | Apparel & footwear | 11.0% | 758 | 23,600 | 32.1 |
| Olo | B2B software | 11.0% | 20 | 915 | 21.9 |
| SharkNinja, Inc. | Appliance & housewares | 10.9% | 203 | 4,143 | 49.0 |
| Carter's, Inc. | Apparel & footwear | 10.7% | 292 | 15,400 | 19.0 |
| Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. | Coatings & specialty chemical | 10.7% | 398 | 12,200 | 32.6 |
| The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. | Foodservice distribution | 10.7% | 99 | 5,156 | 19.2 |
| Monster Beverage Corporation | Beverage | 10.6% | 430 | 6,332 | 67.9 |
| Sysco Corporation | Foodservice distribution | 10.6% | 1,887 | 75,000 | 25.2 |
| Snap-on Incorporated | Tool & industrial | 10.5% | 559 | 13,000 | 43.0 |
| Simpson Strong-Tie | Building products | 10.3% | 164 | 3,000 | 54.7 |
| HNI Corporation | Furniture & furnishings | 10.1% | 582 | 18,500 | 31.5 |
| The LEGO Group | Toy & game | 9.9% | 647 | 33,000 | 19.6 |
| Interface, Inc. | Furniture & furnishings | 9.8% | 114 | 3,570 | 31.9 |
| Klein Tools | Tool & industrial | 9.7% | 55 | 2,500 | 22.0 |
| Whirlpool Corporation | Appliance & housewares | 9.6% | 986 | 41,000 | 24.0 |
| YETI Holdings, Inc. | Appliance & housewares | 9.5% | 74 | 1,390 | 53.2 |
| Yext | B2B software | 9.4% | 67 | 1,120 | 59.8 |
| Domo | B2B software | 9.4% | 49 | 876 | 55.9 |
| US Foods Holding Corp. | Foodservice distribution | 9.4% | 1,050 | 30,000 | 35.0 |
| La-Z-Boy Incorporated | Furniture & furnishings | 9.2% | 164 | 10,200 | 16.1 |
| Celsius Holdings, Inc. | Beverage | 9.1% | 77 | 1,497 | 51.4 |
| MillerKnoll, Inc. | Furniture & furnishings | 9.0% | 150 | 10,544 | 14.2 |
| Gordon Food Service | Foodservice distribution | 8.9% | 528 | 22,000 | 24.0 |
| Ben E. Keith Company | Foodservice distribution | 8.7% | 200 | 5,600 | 35.7 |
| Trex Company | Building products | 8.5% | 45 | 1,839 | 24.5 |
| Amplitude | B2B software | 8.3% | 38 | 795 | 47.8 |
| Virco Manufacturing Corporation | Furniture & furnishings | 8.3% | 12 | 731 | 16.4 |
| Semrush | B2B software | 7.4% | 61 | 1,567 | 38.9 |
| lululemon athletica inc. | Apparel & footwear | 7.3% | 345 | 39,000 | 8.8 |
| Ethan Allen Interiors Inc. | Furniture & furnishings | 7.3% | 71 | 3,062 | 23.2 |
| The Pokémon Company International | Toy & game | 7.1% | 65 | 2,663 | 24.4 |
| Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc. | Beverage | 7.0% | 247 | 16,000 | 15.4 |
| The Boston Beer Company, Inc. | Beverage | 6.8% | 84 | 2,736 | 30.7 |
| Bassett Furniture Industries | Furniture & furnishings | 6.5% | 43 | 1,194 | 36.0 |
| Sprout Social | B2B software | 4.3% | 32 | 1,362 | 23.5 |
| The Sherwin-Williams Company | Coatings & specialty chemical | 3.9% | 1,763 | 64,249 | 27.4 |
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, finance runs 3.9% to 24.7% of SG&A headcount, median 13.4%. In people that is 7.6 to 159.5 per 1,000 employees, median 35.7. The lean quartile is 10.7% of SG&A headcount and the heavy quartile 15.7%. 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.
Packaging & container carries the most finance, at a median of 17.1% of SG&A headcount. Furniture & furnishings carries the least, at 9.2%. In between: building products 15.7%, food & CPG 14.5%, tool & industrial 14.0%, beverage 13.8%, coatings & specialty chemical 13.5%, appliance & housewares 13.4%, apparel & footwear 13.1%, toy & game 12.3%, foodservice distribution 11.1%, B2B software 10.2%. Measured per 1,000 employees the order changes: furniture & furnishings is thinnest at 23.2 and toy & game is densest at 75.2.
Lean quartile is 10.7% of SG&A headcount and heavy quartile 15.7%, across 126 named companies. We say lean and heavy rather than top and bottom because a smaller finance 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 finance 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.
Surveys count what respondents tell them, and only companies that chose to respond appear. We count the same way at every company whether it participates or not, from public job titles. That is why you can see named outliers here instead of an average. For an exact count of your own people, the paid census lands within 5 to 8 percent of true headcount.
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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