The data displays the number of employees of the Big Four accounting / audit firms worldwide in 2017. PwC employed 236,235 members of staff in 2017.
The "Big Four" - additional information
The “Big Four” are the four global leaders in auditing and accounting. Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), Ernst and Young (EY) and KPMG together audit the majority of publicly traded companies worldwide. In 2017, Deloitte employed the biggest number of people with more than 263,900. Founded in London in 1845 and headquartered in New York today, the company employed the biggest share of its staff in the Americas, closely followed by Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
