People Overview

PPG people make it happen, driving value for our customers every day.

At PPG, we aim to champion all employees, encouraging them to bring their best to their role and empowering everyone to reach their full potential. Our people strategies provide the foundation for transforming to a culture of growth by encouraging our team members to thrive, deliver and grow, enabling them to deliver exceptional performance and live our purpose: We protect and beautify the world.

In this section, we disclose our performance and approach related to the following priority issues:

• Attracting and retaining talent
• Fostering an inclusive workforce focused on belonging
• Providing sustainability training and career progression pathways for our people
• Ensuring safe work environments and promoting employee wellbeing

Our people section covers the following areas:

• Engagement: PPG is committed to creating a company where everyone can thrive, deliver and grow by supporting the productivity, motivation and engagement of our workforce.
• Learning and leadership development: PPG recognizes that our people are our most important competitive advantage. We invest in resources and capability building to help our people develop and succeed at every level of their careers.
• Safety and health: PPG's top priority is to keep our people healthy and ensure that everyone goes home safely at the end of each day.
• Wellness: PPG is committed to building a global culture of health that enables our employees and their families to prioritize mental and physical wellbeing.

Multi-year data

This data reflects the number of employees following divestment of the architectural coatings U.S. and Canada and silicas businesses. It does not necessarily include all employees who joined our company through recent acquisitions. Numbers may vary in past and future reports as we continue to integrate new employees into our human resource systems and as employees continue to provide or update their self-identification status.

Number of employees

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_{Numbers are average for the full year and include PPG joint ventures.}

2024 employees by region

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_{Numbers are as of Dec. 31, 2024 following the divestiture of the architectural coatings U.S. and Canada and silicas businesses.}

2024 employees by employee type

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_{Numbers are as of Dec. 31, 2024 following the divestiture of the architectural coatings U.S. and Canada and silicas businesses.}

U.S. EEO-1 reporting

While we do not use the Federal Employer Information Report EEO-1 to guide our progress, our 2023 U.S. EEO-1 report is available online.

2024 U.S. employee race and ethnicity representation

_{Total may not equal the sum due to rounding. "Other" category includes employees who are two or more races, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander and Native American or Native Alaskan, as well as employees who did not self-identify their race. Frontline and select support employees encompass a wide range of critical operational roles. These include plant and manufacturing employees, store employees, custodial employees, clerks, assistants, customer service representatives, electricians, technicians, drivers, color matchers, among others. Non-frontline employees cover a variety of roles, including chemists, engineers, corporate function employees, managers, directors, executives, among others. Management team comprises employees who are vice presidents and above.}

2024 total global gender representation

As of December 31, 2024

2024 total global generational overview

As of December 31, 2024