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title: "EY Adds Nearly 10,000 Jobs as Its AI Business Grows 49%"
description: "The Big Four firm’s hiring was driven by its offshore delivery centers, even as its Americas workforce shrank by 5%"
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# EY Adds Nearly 10,000 Jobs as Its AI Business Grows 49%

*The Big Four firm’s hiring was driven by its offshore delivery centers, even as its Americas workforce shrank by 5%*

By rews desk · October 8, 2026 · https://rews.cc/a/ey-adds-nearly-10-000-jobs-as-its-ai-business-grows-49-9e7028

## In brief

- EY reported adding nearly 10,000 jobs globally in its 2026 financial year, bringing its workforce to 415,000
- AI-related revenue rose 49%, up from a 30% rise a year earlier, as overall revenue grew 4.7% to $57 billion
- More than 10,000 hires went to offshore delivery centers while the Americas workforce fell about 4,500, or 5%
- EY-Parthenon was the fastest-growing line, up 7.4% to $6.8 billion; consulting added 9,000 jobs globally
- Deloitte’s growth slowed to 3.8% and Accenture shares are down 26.7% in 2026 despite 5% revenue growth

EY said on Thursday that it added nearly 10,000 jobs around the world in its latest financial year, as revenue from services tied to artificial intelligence rose 49 percent, [Business Insider reported](https://www.businessinsider.com/ey-annual-results-big-four-ai-consulting-booming-2026-10).

The hiring push brought the Big Four firm’s global workforce to 415,000. But the growth was not evenly spread. More than 10,000 of the new roles went to what EY calls its global entities, the division that includes its offshore delivery centers. In the Americas, head count fell by roughly 4,500, or 5 percent.

The results cover the first full financial year under a strategy that EY’s global chair and chief executive, Janet Truncale, has called “All-In,” in which the firm has invested billions to rebuild its operating model around AI. The 49 percent surge in AI-related sales, up from a 30 percent rise the year before, suggests the bet is paying off.

“The rise in demand for AI-related services reflects that businesses have moved beyond experimentation and are now redesigning how they operate,” Ms. Truncale said in a press release.

Overall revenue rose 4.7 percent to $57 billion. EY-Parthenon, the strategy and transactions arm, was the fastest-growing line, with revenue up 7.4 percent to $6.8 billion. That is a turnaround from the previous two years, when the division grew 2.6 percent and not at all, helped along, most likely, by a rebound in the deal market. Tax revenue rose 6 percent to $13.8 billion, consulting grew 4.4 percent to $17.4 billion and assurance grew 3 percent to $18.9 billion.

The year is also the first full one since EY collapsed 18 geographic regions into 10, a reorganization the firm said would speed up collaboration across its international network. It spent $448 million on training and development during the year.

The numbers land in the middle of an industry-wide argument about whether AI will gut professional services or feed it. The technology has already put pressure on time-based billing and raised questions about how junior staff will learn their trade as more routine work is automated. Firm leaders have countered that companies will still need consultants to install the technology and reorganize their workforces, and EY’s figures offer some evidence: the consulting division alone added 9,000 jobs globally. Many of the engagements are multi-year projects to remake a client’s operations, with new AI work surfacing in auditing, tax advice and deal valuations as well.

Results from EY’s rivals have been less tidy. In September, Deloitte said its global revenue grew 3.8 percent to $74.5 billion, slower than the 4.8 percent rise a year earlier, and its technology and transformation arm was its slowest-growing division, up 2.5 percent against 4.7 percent the year before. At Accenture, one of the few publicly traded consulting giants, shares have fallen 26.7 percent so far in 2026 as investors questioned whether AI could undercut the traditional consulting model.

Accenture’s results for the year ended Aug. 31 eased some of that worry. The company said it had signed more than 400 clients for their first “advanced AI” work during the year and credited AI-driven projects for a 5 percent rise in annual revenue.