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SEC 10-K/10-Q employee headcount disclosures

total employee count reported in each quarterly/annual filing per company

Feed detail
Measures
total employee count reported in each quarterly/annual filing per company
Source
SEC EDGAR full-text search API (efts.sec.gov) parsing 'Human Capital' / employee count sections
Access
json-api
Cadence
intradayupdates multiple times a day
Thesis
Headcount trend deltas quarter-over-quarter are a clean, official, low-noise proxy for cost discipline that predates margin guidance
Maps to
single-name equity margin forecasts
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tA
Ban-risk
ban:none
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

Browse the rest of Labor Market — Job postings, hiring, and wage signals that lead the official employment reports by weeks.