EY Global Revenue 2026 Hits $57 Billion as Every Service Line Grows

EY global revenue 2026 rose 4.7% in local currency to $57 billion in the fiscal year ended June 30, the firm said on October 8, with all four service lines and all three geographic areas posting growth.

The result puts EY ahead of PwC’s most recent published figure and behind Deloitte, and it shows where the firm is growing fastest. Strategy and Transactions grew 7.4% and Tax 6.0%, while Assurance, the audit-led business that still makes up a third of revenue, grew 3.0%.

In US dollars, revenue rose 7.0% from $53.2 billion a year earlier to $56.969 billion, according to EY’s results release. The gap between the two growth rates reflects currency movements, and EY leads with the local-currency figure.

For finance leaders who buy from the Big Four, and for accounting firms that compete with them for talent and clients, the split matters more than the total. Tax and advisory work is growing faster than audit at EY, and the firm is adding consulting staff while trimming assurance headcount.

EY global revenue 2026 grows in every service line

EY-Parthenon, the strategy and transactions business, recorded the strongest growth at 7.4% in local currency, taking revenue to $6.8 billion from $6.2 billion in FY2025. Tax followed at 6.0%, reaching $13.8 billion from $12.7 billion.

Consulting grew 4.4% to $17.4 billion from $16.4 billion. Assurance grew 3.0% to $18.9 billion from $17.9 billion, the slowest of the four lines and below the firm’s 4.7% average.

Assurance remains the largest line at about 33% of revenue. Consulting accounts for about 31%, Tax about 24% and EY-Parthenon about 12%.

Assurance and Tax together generated $32.7 billion, or 57% of the total. That compares with the five-year compound annual growth rate EY reports for the whole firm of 8.3% a year from FY2021 to FY2026.

Consulting has the highest five-year rate of the four lines at 11.4% a year. Assurance has the lowest at 6.6%.

EY global revenue 2026 by region

Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA) grew 5.1% in local currency to $23.2 billion, up from $21.1 billion. In dollar terms the region grew 10.1%, the largest gap between the two measures in any area.

Asia-Pacific grew 4.9% to $7.8 billion. The Americas, the biggest region at $25.9 billion and about 46% of revenue, grew 4.2% in local currency and 4.8% in dollars.

The result matters for firms with US, UK and EU clients alike. EMEIA now accounts for about 41% of EY revenue, and the region’s five-year growth rate of 9.5% a year is the highest of the three.

Headcount and AI spending behind EY global revenue 2026

EY ended the year with 415,182 people, up 2.2% from 406,209. Revenue per person, calculated on dollar figures, rose to about $137,000 from about $131,000.

The mix shifted. Consulting added 7,440 people, a 6.0% increase to 131,678, and Tax grew 3.2% to 77,730. Assurance headcount fell 0.5% to 130,279, and practice support fell 1.4% to 50,011.

Regional headcount moved differently from revenue. The Americas workforce fell 4.9% to 87,546 even as revenue there grew 4.2%, while the Global Entities category rose 12.3% to 92,082.

EY said sales from AI services grew 49% in the fiscal year. It said revenue from its alliance partners has grown at a 34% compound annual rate over the last decade, and it counts 119 active alliance or ecosystem relationships.

The firm invested $448 million in training and development. Its people completed 5.2 million hours of formal AI-related learning and earned more than 40,000 AI accreditations through EY Badges, with 104,000 more in progress.

Total formal learning hours reached 26.6 million, up from 24.6 million in FY2025. At the end of the year 203,000 EY people held Microsoft Copilot licences, a figure that has since risen to 381,000.

In assurance, EY said 130,000 professionals are now AI-enabled. It described a multiyear audit transformation, including a global rollout of enterprise-scale agentic AI, as part of a multibillion-dollar investment in audit quality, technology and people.

“Clients are moving from experimenting with AI to redesigning how their businesses operate,” said Janet Truncale, EY global chair and chief executive. She said demand for AI-related services reflects organisations prioritising approaches that combine technology with industry knowledge, trusted relationships and human judgement.

How EY compares with Deloitte, PwC and KPMG

The Big Four report on different fiscal calendars, so the comparison is imperfect. EY and PwC close their books on June 30, Deloitte on May 31 and KPMG on September 30.

Deloitte, which has built a network of AI agents for its auditors, reported revenue of $74.5 billion for the year to May 31, 2026. That was up 5.7% in dollars and 3.8% in local currency from $70.5 billion. EY’s local-currency growth of 4.7% was therefore about a percentage point faster, on a revenue base about 24% smaller.

Deloitte’s growth was led by tax and legal at 5.8% in local currency, with audit and assurance at 5.0%. EY’s assurance line grew more slowly, at 3.0%.

PwC has not yet published results for the year to June 2026. For FY2025 it reported global revenues of $56.9 billion, up 2.7% in local currency. EY’s $57.0 billion for FY2026 is marginally above that figure, though the two cover different years.

KPMG reported $39.8 billion for the year to September 30, 2025, up 5.1%, with tax and legal growing 7.5% and audit 6.0%. Its FY2026 results are not yet published. The firm has begun piloting next-generation audit agents, the same technology area where EY is directing its assurance investment.

Against the only complete FY2026 result from a rival, EY grew faster than Deloitte on a local-currency basis and in its assurance and tax lines. Deloitte remains about $17.5 billion larger.

What to watch after EY global revenue 2026

The next readings come from the other two firms. PwC published its FY2025 results on October 28, 2025, and its FY2026 numbers would be expected on a similar timetable. KPMG, whose fiscal year ends on September 30, reports after that.

Those results will show whether the pattern at EY and Deloitte, with tax and advisory outgrowing audit, holds across the Big Four. They will also settle whether EY keeps its place as the second-largest firm by revenue, a position that depends on PwC’s figure for the year to June. The wider shifts in practice economics are covered in Accountio’s technology trends for 2026.

EY has also published its Value Realized 2026 report, which sets out the firm’s financial and non-financial performance for clients, people and society.