Company playbook · Accenture

How Accenture hires, and how to get in: 2026

Accenture's own SEC pay ratio disclosure implies a median employee total compensation of roughly $22,700 a year, which is what happens when your two largest workforces are in India and the Philippines. This guide takes the wage ranges Accenture LLP certified to the US government for named roles in named cities, the UK pay quartiles it files by law, and the hiring stages, HackerRank assessment rules and 90 day retake lock it publishes itself, and turns them into a plan. Checked against filings on 21 September 2026.

Company playbookPublished 21 September 2026·Every figure checked 21 September 2026·15 min read
798,739
People worldwide at 31 May 2026, up 1% on a year earlier
Q3 FY26 presentation, 18 Jun 2026
14%
Voluntary attrition in fiscal 2025, against 13% in fiscal 2024
Accenture 2025 Form 10-K
$22,700
Approximate median employee total pay, implied by the SEC pay ratio
AFL-CIO Paywatch, from SEC filings
97,000
People promoted in fiscal 2025, about one in eight of the workforce
Accenture 2025 Annual Report
Section 01

How the door opens

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The three doors you think you are choosing between at Accenture, consulting, technology and operations, stopped being separate businesses on 1 September 2025, and the replacement structure changed again on 31 March 2026. Read the job family on the advert, not the brand in your head.

The structural fact that decides what you apply into

On 20 June 2025 Accenture announced that Strategy, Consulting, Song, Technology and Operations would merge into a single unit called Reinvention Services, effective 1 September 2025. Accenture newsroom, 20 Jun 2025

On 13 March 2026 that unit was reorganised again into seven client facing groups, effective 31 March 2026: Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent. Accenture newsroom, 13 Mar 2026

What this means for you in practice: an advert that says "Technology" is describing a skill, not a division you join, and the old habit of asking "am I applying to Accenture Consulting or Accenture Technology?" no longer maps onto how the work is organised. Ask instead which of the seven groups the role sits in, because that is the unit whose demand decides whether the requisition survives.

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Section 02

What it pays, from the filings

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