Number of partners of the leading accounting firms in the U.S. 2019

PricewaterhouseCoopers was the second leading accounting firm with the greatest number of partners as of June 2019, having 3,749 partners employed in the United States.

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

PwC is the second largest professional service firm among the Big Four auditors, and the fifth largest private owned company in the United States. Headquartered in London, they operate in over 158 countries and employed over 276,000 people worldwide. In 2019, their service line brought in an aggregated revenue of over 42 billion U.S. dollars. Regionally, most of their aggregated revenue came from the Americas.

Accounting services in the U.S.

The accounting industry in the United States employed 1.26 million accountants and auditors employed in 2018. California had the highest employment level in accounting and auditing in the country as of May 2018. However, accountants and auditors in Washington, D.C. had the highest wages, earning on average 98,130 U.S. dollars yearly. Following Washington, D.C., accountants and auditors working in New York earned on average 96,300 U.S. dollars yearly.