Regional view: North America
The average North American IR team consists of two people, a marginal variation from the 2021 figure of 1.9 and the 2020 figure of 2.1. Since 2013 there has been little change in the size of North American IR teams, with the average number ranging between 1.9 and 2.2. IR teams are typically more male than those in other regions, with men comprising 55 percent of the IR workforce. IR teams increase with company size from 1.2 people among small caps to 3.8 at mega-cap companies. Mid-cap IR teams have the highest proportion of men, while mega-cap IR teams report the majority of their members to be women.