EY global revenue increased to $57B
- Key insight: Learn why EY clients are moving from experimenting with AI to redesigning business operations.
- What’s at stake: Rival professional services firms as EY rapidly expands its AI capabilities and alliance revenues.
- Forward look: Another 104,000 EY employees plan to complete their AI learning accreditations.
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Ernst & Young announced its global revenues increased 4.7% to $57 billion in the fiscal year ending June 2026, with each of EY’s service lines and geographic areas posting revenue increases over the past year.
The Big Four firm saw a 49% growth in sales from AI services, while its EY alliance partner revenues grew at 34% compound annual growth rate.
EY-Parthenon, the firm’s strategy and transactions arm, recorded the strongest growth at 7.4% in terms of local currency to $6.8 billion, followed by tax services revenue increasing 6.0% to $13.8 billion, consulting revenue growing 4.4% to $17.4 billion, and assurance revenue rising 3.0% to $18.9 billion.
Over the course of the year, EY invested $448 million in training and development, including new learning programs focused on AI and other emerging technologies, leadership and other future-focused skills. In fiscal year 2026, EY people completed 5.2 million hours of formal AI-related learning and earned more than 40,000 AI learning accreditations through EY Badges, with another 104,000 in progress. At the close of FY 2026, 203,000 EY people held Microsoft Copilot licenses, and that number has since risen to 381,000 today.
Across all areas of learning and development, EY people completed 26.6 million hours of formal learning, compared with 24.6 million in FY 2025.
The firm also released Thursday its
“Clients are moving from experimenting with AI to redesigning how their businesses operate,” said EY global chair and CEO Janet Truncale in a statement Thursday. “Growth in demand for AI-related services reflects that shift, as organizations increasingly prioritize approaches that combine technology with deep industry knowledge, trusted relationships and human judgement. This fiscal year’s results demonstrate the strength of bringing EY teams and alliance partners together to accelerate value creation and turn disruption into sustained growth.”
Through EY Ripples, the organization’s global social impact program, EY has now positively impacted more than 300 million lives since its launch in 2018, including approximately 56.6 million in FY26. The AI for Good program alone has reached more than 25 million people globally since 2023 through initiatives focused on areas including AI skills, education, entrepreneurship and environmental challenges.
EY continued to reduce its own environmental impact. Since fiscal year 2019, total market-based greenhouse gas emissions have declined by 40%, while emissions-intensity per dollar of revenue have fallen by 62% and emissions per person by 58%. EY matched 100% of electricity consumed with renewable energy resources.
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