The global workforce of consulting and accountancy firm PwC increased significantly over the last decade and grew to roughly 364,000 employees in 2023.
PwC
PwC is one of the largest professional services firms in the world, specializing in auditing and accountancy services. Their operations are divided into three service lines: assurance, which deals primarily with financial audits; advisory, which provides broader management consultancy services; and tax, which provides tax consulting services. Geographically broken down by region, the largest share of their revenue is generated in the Americas. When the employee count of the firm is organized by region, the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region had the largest workforce of PwC worldwide.
The Big Four
The Big Four accounting firms – Deloitte, PwC, EY and KPMG – are the four largest professional services networks in the world. Most publicly listed firms will procure auditing services from one of the Big Four, as do countless private companies. PwC is the second largest of the Big Four in terms of global revenue and the third-largest in terms of global employees.
Number of PwC employees worldwide from 2010 to 2023
The terms PricewaterhouseCoopers and PwC are used to refer to the network of member firms of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited (PwCIL). Each member firm is a separate legal entity and does not act as an agent of PwCIL or any other member firm. PwCIL does not provide any services to clients.
Values prior to 2023 were taken from previous annual reports.
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