Across 6 industries and 60 named companies, legal and compliance is 0.8% to 5.5% of core SG&A headcount, median 2.7%. Observed legal and compliance staff run 1.2 to 33.2 per 1,000 employees, median 8.1, 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 | Legal and compliance share of SG&A, median | Range | Per 1,000 employees, median | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food & CPG | 13 | 3.2% | 2.0% to 5.2% | 12.4 | July 2026 |
| Apparel & footwear | 12 | 3.0% | 1.9% to 4.0% | 7.7 | August 2026 |
| Toy & game | 9 | 2.8% | 1.3% to 5.5% | 15.3 | August 2026 |
| Tool & industrial | 7 | 2.5% | 1.4% to 2.9% | 6.4 | July 2026 |
| B2B software | 10 | 2.1% | 1.3% to 3.6% | 9.0 | August 2026 |
| Building products | 9 | 1.8% | 0.8% to 3.9% | 3.3 | July 2026 |
| Company | Industry | Share of SG&A | Observed contacts | Employees | Per 1,000 employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Pokémon Company International | Toy & game | 5.5% | 50 | 2,663 | 18.8 |
| Ingredion | Food & CPG | 5.2% | 169 | 11,200 | 15.1 |
| Church & Dwight | Food & CPG | 4.6% | 112 | 5,550 | 20.2 |
| International Flavors & Fragrances | Food & CPG | 4.4% | 278 | 21,500 | 12.9 |
| The Campbell's Company | Food & CPG | 4.2% | 154 | 13,700 | 11.2 |
| McCormick & Company | Food & CPG | 4.1% | 185 | 14,100 | 13.1 |
| MGA Entertainment, Inc. | Toy & game | 4.0% | 37 | 1,200 | 30.8 |
| lululemon athletica inc. | Apparel & footwear | 4.0% | 187 | 39,000 | 4.8 |
| Louisiana-Pacific | Building products | 3.9% | 39 | 4,300 | 9.1 |
| Deckers Outdoor Corporation | Apparel & footwear | 3.9% | 72 | 6,000 | 12.0 |
| James Hardie | Building products | 3.8% | 25 | 7,500 | 3.3 |
| Under Armour, Inc. | Apparel & footwear | 3.8% | 103 | 14,100 | 7.3 |
| Carter's, Inc. | Apparel & footwear | 3.6% | 100 | 15,400 | 6.5 |
| nCino | B2B software | 3.6% | 17 | 1,684 | 10.1 |
| Hasbro, Inc. | Toy & game | 3.5% | 150 | 4,520 | 33.2 |
| Olo | B2B software | 3.3% | 6 | 915 | 6.6 |
| The Clorox Company | Food & CPG | 3.2% | 139 | 7,600 | 18.3 |
| The J.M. Smucker Company | Food & CPG | 3.2% | 99 | 8,000 | 12.4 |
| Crocs, Inc. | Apparel & footwear | 3.2% | 79 | 8,010 | 9.9 |
| Oxford Industries, Inc. | Apparel & footwear | 3.1% | 36 | 6,000 | 6.0 |
| The Hershey Company | Food & CPG | 3.0% | 194 | 20,000 | 9.7 |
| Stanley Black & Decker | Tool & industrial | 2.9% | 419 | 43,500 | 9.6 |
| General Mills | Food & CPG | 2.9% | 366 | 33,000 | 11.1 |
| Columbia Sportswear Company | Apparel & footwear | 2.9% | 76 | 9,620 | 7.9 |
| Klein Tools | Tool & industrial | 2.8% | 16 | 2,500 | 6.4 |
| The LEGO Group | Toy & game | 2.8% | 186 | 33,000 | 5.6 |
| Ralph Lauren Corporation | Apparel & footwear | 2.8% | 191 | 23,600 | 8.1 |
| IDEAL Industries | Tool & industrial | 2.7% | 13 | 2,502 | 5.2 |
| The Kraft Heinz Company | Food & CPG | 2.7% | 450 | 35,000 | 12.9 |
| Hormel Foods | Food & CPG | 2.7% | 87 | 20,000 | 4.3 |
| Mattel, Inc. | Toy & game | 2.6% | 189 | 31,000 | 6.1 |
| Enerpac Tool Group | Tool & industrial | 2.5% | 18 | 2,100 | 8.6 |
| Conagra Brands | Food & CPG | 2.5% | 91 | 17,400 | 5.2 |
| Spin Master Corp. | Toy & game | 2.5% | 52 | 3,000 | 17.3 |
| Tapestry, Inc. | Apparel & footwear | 2.4% | 141 | 19,000 | 7.4 |
| Amplitude | B2B software | 2.4% | 11 | 795 | 13.8 |
| Levi Strauss & Co. | Apparel & footwear | 2.3% | 155 | 19,000 | 8.2 |
| Domo | B2B software | 2.3% | 12 | 876 | 13.7 |
| Gibraltar Industries | Building products | 2.2% | 14 | 2,300 | 6.1 |
| Zuora | B2B software | 2.2% | 10 | 1,200 | 8.3 |
| VF Corporation | Apparel & footwear | 2.1% | 225 | 26,000 | 8.7 |
| Mondelez International | Food & CPG | 2.0% | 384 | 91,000 | 4.2 |
| BlackLine | B2B software | 2.0% | 17 | 1,850 | 9.2 |
| Simpson Strong-Tie | Building products | 1.9% | 31 | 3,000 | 10.3 |
| PVH Corp. | Apparel & footwear | 1.9% | 171 | 26,000 | 6.6 |
| JELD-WEN | Building products | 1.8% | 57 | 13,900 | 4.1 |
| Kennametal Inc. | Tool & industrial | 1.7% | 56 | 8,100 | 6.9 |
| Yext | B2B software | 1.7% | 12 | 1,120 | 10.7 |
| Masonite International | Building products | 1.6% | 18 | 10,000 | 1.8 |
| Apex Tool Group | Tool & industrial | 1.6% | 23 | 5,300 | 4.3 |
| Sprout Social | B2B software | 1.6% | 12 | 1,362 | 8.8 |
| Snap-on Incorporated | Tool & industrial | 1.4% | 76 | 13,000 | 5.8 |
| Funko, Inc. | Toy & game | 1.3% | 8 | 1,104 | 7.2 |
| Semrush | B2B software | 1.3% | 11 | 1,567 | 7.0 |
| PagerDuty | B2B software | 1.3% | 8 | 1,155 | 6.9 |
| UFP Industries | Building products | 1.0% | 28 | 13,800 | 2.0 |
| Trex Company | Building products | 0.9% | 5 | 1,839 | 2.7 |
| The AZEK Company | Building products | 0.8% | 3 | 2,276 | 1.3 |
| JAKKS Pacific, Inc. | Toy & game | n/a | 10 | 652 | 15.3 |
| Crayola LLC | Toy & game | n/a | 3 | 2,464 | 1.2 |
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 6 industries and 60 named companies, legal and compliance is 0.8% to 5.5% of core SG&A headcount, median 2.7%. Observed legal and compliance staff run 1.2 to 33.2 per 1,000 employees, median 8.1, 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.
Food & CPG: median 3.2% of SG&A, 12.4 per 1,000 employees; Apparel & footwear: median 3.0% of SG&A, 7.7 per 1,000 employees; Toy & game: median 2.8% of SG&A, 15.3 per 1,000 employees; Tool & industrial: median 2.5% of SG&A, 6.4 per 1,000 employees; B2B software: median 2.1% of SG&A, 9.0 per 1,000 employees; Building products: median 1.8% of SG&A, 3.3 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.
Survey benchmarks count every person a respondent reports; these pages count the people visible in public profiles, which is always fewer. Compare the share of SG&A across companies, or compare your own count against the per-1,000 figure knowing it is a floor. The paid census resolves every person and lands within about 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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