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# EY Grew to 415,182 Staff as AI Sales Rose 49%, but Its Americas Workforce Fell 4.9%

EY ended June with 415,182 people, up 2.2%, as AI sales rose 49%. Consulting and Global Entities grew while the Americas fell 4.9%. See where headcount moved.

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[EY ended June 2026 with 415,182 people](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026), up from [406,209 a year earlier](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2025/10/ey-announces-global-revenue-of-us-53-2b-for-fiscal-year-2025), a rise of [2.2%](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026) in a year when [sales from AI services grew by 49%](https://itbrief.com.au/story/ey-revenue-hits-usd-57-billion-as-ai-demand-surges). Headcount in the [Americas fell 4.9% to 87,546](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026), while the [Global Entities group, which includes EY Global Delivery Services, grew 12.3% to 92,082](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026). For [Metaintro](https://www.metaintro.com) readers weighing a Big Four application, the useful detail is in [EY's own headcount table](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026), which shows which service lines and areas grew or shrank.

## What Did EY Report for Its 2026 Financial Year?

EY's [combined global revenues reached US$57b for the fiscal year ending June 2026, an increase of 4.7% in local currency](https://www.caproasia.com/2026/10/09/big-4-audit-firm-ey-reports-total-57-billion-revenue-for-fy2026-4-7-yoy/), or [about £43bn](https://www.cityam.com/ey-global-revenues-hit-57bn-as-ai-demand-fuels-big-four-giants-growth/) in sterling. The exact total in its table is [US$56,969 million, against US$53,219 million in the prior year](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026). Revenue grew in every service line, with a [five-year compound annual growth rate of 8.3%](https://itbrief.com.au/story/ey-revenue-hits-usd-57-billion-as-ai-demand-surges).

By service line, [EY-Parthenon rose 7.4% in local currency to US$6.8 billion, Tax rose 6.0% to US$13.8 billion, consulting rose 4.4% to US$17.4 billion, and assurance grew 3.0% to US$18.9 billion](https://itbrief.com.au/story/ey-revenue-hits-usd-57-billion-as-ai-demand-surges). EY-Parthenon revenue [was flat in the 2025 financial year](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2025/10/ey-announces-global-revenue-of-us-53-2b-for-fiscal-year-2025). A [rebound in the deal market and demand for strategy services is also likely to have contributed to the rise](https://www.businessinsider.com/ey-annual-results-big-four-ai-consulting-booming-2026-10), Business Insider reported.

These are also the first full-year results since EY [consolidated 18 geographic regions into 10](https://www.businessinsider.com/ey-annual-results-big-four-ai-consulting-booming-2026-10), a simpler structure that would [improve collaboration, speed, and client service across its international network](https://www.businessinsider.com/ey-annual-results-big-four-ai-consulting-booming-2026-10), according to EY. The headcount figures [reflect personnel as at the end of June of each financial year](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026).

## Where Did EY's Headcount Actually Grow?

Consulting headcount reached [131,678, up 6.0% from 124,238](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026), making it the largest service line by people, ahead of assurance at [130,279](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026). A year earlier, the order was reversed, with [assurance at 130,898 and consulting at 124,238](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2025/10/ey-announces-global-revenue-of-us-53-2b-for-fiscal-year-2025).

The Global Entities group rose to [92,082 from 81,990, an increase of 12.3%](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026). It was already growing fast the year before, when it went from [74,918 to 81,990, a rise of 9.4%](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2025/10/ey-announces-global-revenue-of-us-53-2b-for-fiscal-year-2025).

Tax headcount rose [3.2% to 77,730](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026), while EMEIA grew [1.5% to 164,762](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026) and Asia-Pacific grew [1.2% to 70,792](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026). EY-Parthenon headcount rose only [1.8% to 25,484](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026), even as its revenue grew [7.4%](https://itbrief.com.au/story/ey-revenue-hits-usd-57-billion-as-ai-demand-surges). Practice support slipped [1.4% to 50,011](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026).

## What Is the Global Entities Group, and Where Are Its Jobs?

Global Entities covers [global services and functions including the Global Delivery Services (GDS) organization](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026). GDS entities [support EY member firms across the world by providing support capabilities to their client-serving account teams as well as internal enablement support services](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2025/10/ey-announces-global-revenue-of-us-53-2b-for-fiscal-year-2025). The group includes EY's [offshoring centers](https://www.businessinsider.com/ey-annual-results-big-four-ai-consulting-booming-2026-10).

GDS is [a global delivery network of over 74,000 people](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/careers/global-delivery-services), an undated figure, and it is part of the wider [Global Entities group of 92,082](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026).

The locations matter for applicants. GDS works [across 9 locations and 21 cities, and operates in Argentina, Hungary, India, Philippines, Poland, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/careers/global-delivery-services). Its teams sit in [GDS Assurance, GDS Consulting, GDS Enablement Services, GDS Strategy and Transactions, and GDS Tax](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/careers/global-delivery-services), each with its own job search on the page.

GDS looks for [skills that are evergreen](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/careers/global-delivery-services), its roles evolve with industry trends, and it works across [Finance, Business Development, Technology, Talent, Procurement and Risk Management functions](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/careers/global-delivery-services), and [works with teams from all EY service lines, geographies and sectors](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/careers/global-delivery-services). On pay, it does not publish figures, and says instead that [your recruiter can talk to you about the total rewards package available in your country](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/careers/global-delivery-services).

> From accountants to coders, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines, according to [EY's Global Delivery Services careers page](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/careers/global-delivery-services).

## What Happened to EY's Americas Workforce?

The Americas ended the year with [87,546 people against 92,030](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026), a fall of [4.9%](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026). The year before, the region had already edged down [0.7% from 92,638](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2025/10/ey-announces-global-revenue-of-us-53-2b-for-fiscal-year-2025).

Americas revenue kept rising, to [US$25,936 million, up 4.2% in local currency](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026), after [3.3% growth to US$24,741 million in the prior year](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2025/10/ey-announces-global-revenue-of-us-53-2b-for-fiscal-year-2025). That was still below revenue growth in [EMEIA, up 5.1% to US$23,238 million, and Asia-Pacific, up 4.9% to US$7,795 million](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026).

EY gives [no reason for the regional drop](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026) in its results.

## How Much Did AI Drive the Year?

[Sales from AI services grew by 49%, as organizations increasingly moved AI projects beyond experimentation toward enterprise-wide transformation](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026). In the 2025 financial year, [AI-related revenue grew by 30%](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2025/10/ey-announces-global-revenue-of-us-53-2b-for-fiscal-year-2025), and [more than 15,000 EY people worked on AI-led projects for clients](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2025/10/ey-announces-global-revenue-of-us-53-2b-for-fiscal-year-2025) in consulting and EY-Parthenon.

By the end of the financial year, [203,000 employees held Microsoft Copilot licences, and that figure has since risen to 381,000](https://itbrief.com.au/story/ey-revenue-hits-usd-57-billion-as-ai-demand-surges). [Agentic AI is being introduced into internal workflows and client services, while EY's Responsible AI framework remains the basis for how those tools are bought and deployed](https://itbrief.com.au/story/ey-revenue-hits-usd-57-billion-as-ai-demand-surges). The firm [continues to invest in AI-ready data, governance frameworks, and newer fields including physical AI and quantum computing](https://itbrief.com.au/story/ey-revenue-hits-usd-57-billion-as-ai-demand-surges).

In assurance, [130,000 EY professionals are now enabled by AI](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026). EY [continued its multiyear transformation of audit services in FY26, including the global rollout of enterprise-scale agentic AI](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026), as part of [a multibillion-dollar investment in audit quality, technology and people](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026). A year earlier, EY announced [the latest milestone in its US$1b Assurance technology investment, a series of capabilities that bring AI at scale to over 160,000 audit engagements globally, through more than 130,000 EY Assurance professionals](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2025/10/ey-announces-global-revenue-of-us-53-2b-for-fiscal-year-2025).

EY now has [119 active alliance or ecosystem relationships](https://itbrief.com.au/story/ey-revenue-hits-usd-57-billion-as-ai-demand-surges), and [Microsoft and EY are investing US$1b in a new initiative](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026) that pairs Microsoft Forward Deployed Engineers with EY industry professionals.

In its 2025 financial year, EY was investing [more than $US1b to develop AI-first platforms and products](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2025/10/ey-announces-global-revenue-of-us-53-2b-for-fiscal-year-2025) each year, including [1,000 AI agents and the deployment of more than 100 internal AI applications](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2025/10/ey-announces-global-revenue-of-us-53-2b-for-fiscal-year-2025). Over the past decade, [revenue linked to alliance partners has grown at a compound annual growth rate of 34%](https://itbrief.com.au/story/ey-revenue-hits-usd-57-billion-as-ai-demand-surges). EY's alliances span [areas such as physical AI, agentic AI, AI-ready data and enterprise transformation](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026). EY was also [named NVIDIA's Global System Integrator Tech Innovation Partner of the Year in the financial year](https://itbrief.com.au/story/ey-revenue-hits-usd-57-billion-as-ai-demand-surges).

> Clients are moving from experimenting with AI to redesigning how their businesses operate, Janet Truncale, EY Global Chair and CEO, said, according to [the EY results release](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026).

## How Do EY's Own Figures Compare With Business Insider's Nearly 10,000?

EY's headcount rose to [415,182 from 406,209](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026) and consulting to [131,678 from 124,238](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026), figures that do not match the [nearly 10,000 jobs globally](https://www.businessinsider.com/ey-annual-results-big-four-ai-consulting-booming-2026-10) and [9,000 consulting jobs](https://www.businessinsider.com/ey-annual-results-big-four-ai-consulting-booming-2026-10) reported by Business Insider.

The [Global Entities line of 92,082 against 81,990](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026) lines up with the group that [added more than 10,000 staff](https://www.businessinsider.com/ey-annual-results-big-four-ai-consulting-booming-2026-10). Global Entities grew by more than [the firm as a whole](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026), while the [Americas, assurance and practice support](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026) shrank.

AI services sales rose by [nearly 50 per cent](https://www.cityam.com/ey-global-revenues-hit-57bn-as-ai-demand-fuels-big-four-giants-growth/), and the exact EY figure is [49%](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026).

## How Does EY Compare With Its Rivals?

EY's revenue grew [4.7% in local currency](https://itbrief.com.au/story/ey-revenue-hits-usd-57-billion-as-ai-demand-surges). Deloitte's global revenue [grew 3.8% to $74.5 billion](https://www.businessinsider.com/ey-annual-results-big-four-ai-consulting-booming-2026-10) in results published [in September](https://www.businessinsider.com/ey-annual-results-big-four-ai-consulting-booming-2026-10), [a slowdown compared to the 4.8% rise the year before](https://www.businessinsider.com/ey-annual-results-big-four-ai-consulting-booming-2026-10). Its tech consulting business was [the slowest-growing division](https://www.businessinsider.com/ey-annual-results-big-four-ai-consulting-booming-2026-10), with the [technology and transformation arm growing 2.5% compared with 4.7% the previous year](https://www.businessinsider.com/ey-annual-results-big-four-ai-consulting-booming-2026-10). In the UK, [PwC's UK revenue grew to £4.365bn, up two per cent on the previous year](https://www.cityam.com/ey-global-revenues-hit-57bn-as-ai-demand-fuels-big-four-giants-growth/), and [Deloitte UK revenue for the year ended 31 May 2026 rose 2 per cent to £5.81bn](https://www.cityam.com/ey-global-revenues-hit-57bn-as-ai-demand-fuels-big-four-giants-growth/).

Shares in Accenture, [one of the few publicly listed consulting giants](https://www.businessinsider.com/ey-annual-results-big-four-ai-consulting-booming-2026-10), [had fallen 26.7% so far in 2026](https://www.businessinsider.com/ey-annual-results-big-four-ai-consulting-booming-2026-10) when Business Insider reported EY's results, amid investor fears that [AI could undermine the traditional consulting model](https://www.businessinsider.com/ey-annual-results-big-four-ai-consulting-booming-2026-10), though Accenture's [recent financial results for the year ended August 31st helped lift expectations](https://www.businessinsider.com/ey-annual-results-big-four-ai-consulting-booming-2026-10), and the company said [AI-driven reinventions were behind its 5% rise in annual revenue](https://www.businessinsider.com/ey-annual-results-big-four-ai-consulting-booming-2026-10).

Earlier this year, EY also had to [withdraw a study on loyalty rewards programmes](https://www.cityam.com/ey-global-revenues-hit-57bn-as-ai-demand-fuels-big-four-giants-growth/) after a probe found [a string of AI hallucinations and fake footnotes](https://www.cityam.com/ey-global-revenues-hit-57bn-as-ai-demand-fuels-big-four-giants-growth/), City AM reported.

## How Is AI Changing Work at Consulting Firms Like EY?

AI has [disrupted professional services, putting pressure on time-based pricing models and creating questions about how junior talent will develop as more work gets automated](https://www.businessinsider.com/ey-annual-results-big-four-ai-consulting-booming-2026-10), Business Insider reported. Leaders at top firms argue the other side, that [companies will need consultants to help them implement it and reorganize their workforces](https://www.businessinsider.com/ey-annual-results-big-four-ai-consulting-booming-2026-10) rather than being replaced by AI.

Consulting firms are increasingly working on [multi-year projects to completely transform a company's operations](https://www.businessinsider.com/ey-annual-results-big-four-ai-consulting-booming-2026-10), and there are also new AI-related business opportunities in [auditing, tax advice, and deal valuations](https://www.businessinsider.com/ey-annual-results-big-four-ai-consulting-booming-2026-10), the same report said. Accenture said it [added more than 400 clients undertaking their first "advanced AI" work](https://www.businessinsider.com/ey-annual-results-big-four-ai-consulting-booming-2026-10) in its latest financial year, and it has made [AI skills a requirement for promotion](https://www.metaintro.com/blog/accenture-ai-skills-required-promotion-2026).

In its 2025 financial year, EY [rolled out a Career Agility program offering flexibility and career opportunities](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2025/10/ey-announces-global-revenue-of-us-53-2b-for-fiscal-year-2025), and [over 4,000 EY people participated in international assignments across 1,200 different home/host city combinations](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2025/10/ey-announces-global-revenue-of-us-53-2b-for-fiscal-year-2025) in the past year.

Separately, in the same year EY launched [EY Studio+, whose teams comprise 7,000 professionals from 37 specialist companies acquired by EY network members in recent years, along with organically grown EY businesses](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2025/10/ey-announces-global-revenue-of-us-53-2b-for-fiscal-year-2025). Studio+ provides [integrated offerings across design, sales, marketing and customer experience](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2025/10/ey-announces-global-revenue-of-us-53-2b-for-fiscal-year-2025).

## What Skills Is EY Training Its People For?

EY [invested US$448m in training and development, including new learning programs focused on AI and other emerging technologies, leadership and other future-focused skills](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026). Staff completed [5.2 million hours of formal AI-related learning](https://itbrief.com.au/story/ey-revenue-hits-usd-57-billion-as-ai-demand-surges) and earned [more than 40,000 AI learning accreditations through the EY Badges scheme, with another 104,000 underway](https://itbrief.com.au/story/ey-revenue-hits-usd-57-billion-as-ai-demand-surges). The EY Badges program has offered [more than 275 badges designed to develop future-focused skills including leadership, AI, technology and business](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2025/10/ey-announces-global-revenue-of-us-53-2b-for-fiscal-year-2025), and it had [awarded more than 693,000 badges to EY professionals](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2025/10/ey-announces-global-revenue-of-us-53-2b-for-fiscal-year-2025) since its launch in 2017, as of the 2025 results.

Across all subjects, staff completed [26.6 million hours of formal learning, up from 24.6 million in the previous year](https://itbrief.com.au/story/ey-revenue-hits-usd-57-billion-as-ai-demand-surges). EY also has [the fastest-growing AI-skilled population across the combined enterprise customer bases of Coursera and Udemy](https://itbrief.com.au/story/ey-revenue-hits-usd-57-billion-as-ai-demand-surges), by its own account, including in [Coursera's benchmark for Intermediate and Advanced AI capabilities](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026). GDS learning programs include [EY Badges, the EY Tech MBA, multi-level women leadership programs and GDS bootcamps for new graduates](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/careers/global-delivery-services), and GDS runs a career development program called Leap that lets staff [take up opportunities at various EY GDS teams and locations based on business need, qualifications and experience](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/careers/global-delivery-services).

## What This Means for Job Seekers, and What Should You Do Next?

Consulting headcount rose [6.0%](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026), the Global Entities group rose [12.3%](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026), and assurance and the Americas both shrank.

- **Consulting and tax added people.** Consulting headcount rose [6.0%](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026) and tax headcount [3.2%](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026), while EY-Parthenon headcount rose only [1.8%](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026).
- **If you live in a GDS country, look at GDS directly.** The network operates in [Argentina, Hungary, India, Philippines, Poland, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/careers/global-delivery-services), and [each GDS team has its own job search](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/careers/global-delivery-services), from tax to consulting.
- **If you are in the Americas, know the numbers.** The region's headcount [fell to 87,546](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026) while its revenue rose.
- **Treat assurance as steady, not growing.** Assurance headcount edged down to [130,279](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026). [130,000 EY assurance professionals are now enabled by AI and are applying new technological capabilities](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026) to audit work.
- **Build the skills EY is training for.** The firm's training spend included [new learning programs focused on AI and other emerging technologies, leadership and other future-focused skills](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026). EY has also put [bonuses behind the human skills AI cannot copy](https://www.metaintro.com/blog/ey-100-million-human-skills-bonuses-2026).

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## People Also Asked

### Q: How many employees does EY have?

A: EY had [415,182 people at the end of June 2026](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026), with headcount counted as personnel at the end of June of each financial year.

### Q: Did EY cut jobs in the Americas?

A: Its Americas workforce fell by [4.9%](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026), to [87,546 at the end of June 2026](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026), though EY [gives no reason for the drop and does not call it layoffs](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/newsroom/2026/10/ey-global-revenue-increases-4-point-7-percent-to-us-dollars-57b-for-fiscal-year-2026).

### Q: Where does EY Global Delivery Services hire?

A: GDS operates in [Argentina, Hungary, India, Philippines, Poland, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/careers/global-delivery-services), across [9 locations and 21 cities](https://www.ey.com/en_gl/careers/global-delivery-services).

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