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 "id": "legal-corporate-secretary-share-of-legal",
 "name": "Corporate secretary as a share of legal staff",
 "question": "What share of legal staff work in corporate secretary?",
 "aliases": [
  "governance"
 ],
 "formula": "corporate secretary headcount ÷ legal headcount × 100",
 "formula_kind": "share_of_function",
 "value_units": "% of legal",
 "grain": "sub",
 "access": "paid",
 "function": "Legal",
 "cell": "Corporate secretary",
 "coverage_note": null,
 "definition_note": "Counts people whose title places them in the function: an exact count for the org and a floor for the process, since someone in another function may perform part of it.",
 "quartile_method": "p25 and p75 are Tukey hinges: the median of each half of the sorted values, with the median value included in both halves when N is odd. Published only at N >= 8; min, median and max always.",
 "as_of": "2026-09-16",
 "url": "https://sgabenchmarking.com/metrics/legal-corporate-secretary-share-of-legal/",
 "industries": {
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   "industry": "foodservice distribution",
   "url": "https://sgabenchmarking.com/industry/foodservice/",
   "provenance": "measured",
   "as_of": "2026-05-11",
   "n": 3,
   "min": 5.3,
   "p25": null,
   "median": 6.4,
   "p75": null,
   "max": 7.7,
   "min_company": "US Foods",
   "max_company": "Sysco",
   "lean_quartile": null,
   "heavy_quartile": null,
   "quartile_note": null,
   "quartiles_note": "published at 8 or more companies; this cut has 3",
   "companies": [
    {
     "company": "Chefs' Warehouse",
     "ticker": "CHEF",
     "value": null,
     "cell": null,
     "parent_cell": null,
     "employees": 5156,
     "revenue_usd_b": 4.15,
     "provenance": "measured"
    },
    {
     "company": "Performance Food Group",
     "ticker": "PFGC",
     "value": null,
     "cell": null,
     "parent_cell": null,
     "employees": 43000,
     "revenue_usd_b": 63.3,
     "provenance": "measured"
    },
    {
     "company": "Sysco",
     "ticker": "SYY",
     "value": null,
     "cell": null,
     "parent_cell": null,
     "employees": 76000,
     "revenue_usd_b": 81.4,
     "provenance": "measured"
    },
    {
     "company": "US Foods",
     "ticker": "USFD",
     "value": null,
     "cell": null,
     "parent_cell": null,
     "employees": 30000,
     "revenue_usd_b": 39.42,
     "provenance": "measured"
    }
   ],
   "quartiles": "paid",
   "values": "paid"
  }
 },
 "all_industries": {
  "n": 3,
  "min": 5.3,
  "p25": null,
  "median": 6.4,
  "p75": null,
  "max": 7.7,
  "min_company": "US Foods",
  "max_company": "Sysco",
  "lean_quartile": null,
  "heavy_quartile": null,
  "quartile_note": null,
  "quartiles_note": "published at 8 or more companies; this cut has 3",
  "quartiles": "paid"
 },
 "parent": "Legal",
 "quartiles": "paid",
 "values": "paid",
 "paid_cut": {
  "price_usd": 150,
  "url": "https://sgabenchmarking.com/mcp",
  "includes": [
   "every named company's value and inputs",
   "lean and heavy quartiles",
   "CSV",
   "a benchmark-format row"
  ]
 }
}