--- title: PwC is hiring fewer consultants and accountants. Its CEO... description: PwC's US CEO Paul Griggs confirms the firm is hiring fewer junior consultants and accountants, replacing them with data scientists, engineers, and ML experts.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/pwc-is-hiring-fewer-consultants-and-accountants-its-ceo-is-still-sending-his-kids-into-consulting--dlctklrw5 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: PwC is hiring fewer consultants and accountants. 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Its CEO is still sending his kids into consulting. **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary PwC's US CEO Paul Griggs confirms the firm is hiring fewer junior consultants and accountants, replacing them with data scientists, engineers, and ML experts. PwC's own 2026 AI Jobs Barometer — drawn from over a billion job postings — shows expertise-heavy roles growing twice as fast as AI-assisted ones, with a 42% pay gap opening since 2021. The shift is quietly dismantling consulting's traditional pyramid model, where cheap junior staff formed the base. Griggs remains bullish, citing PwC's strongest-ever new-business pipeline, but critics note that eliminating entry-level roles removes the traditional path for developing future senior talent. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What did PwC's AI Jobs Barometer find about pay growth in expertise-heavy jobs versus AI-automatable ones? Pay in roles requiring more human expertise has grown 42% faster since 2021 compared with roles where AI lets novices do the work. Jobs demanding deeper expertise are also growing about twice as fast as those AI is automating, based on analysis of more than a billion job postings in PwC's 2026 AI Jobs Barometer. _Track how AI is reshaping pay and hiring across professional roles on daily.dev._ ### Is PwC hiring fewer junior consultants and accountants because of AI? Yes, PwC's US senior partner and CEO Paul Griggs confirmed the firm hired fewer junior consultants and accountants this year than two years prior, with an internal deck showing shrinking US campus-hiring targets for three consecutive years. The firm is instead adding more data scientists, engineers, and machine-learning experts as AI changes entry-level work. _Follow how AI is reshaping entry-level hiring at firms like PwC on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren't convinced about AI](https://daily.dev/posts/pwc-will-say-goodbye-to-staff-who-aren-t-convinced-about-ai-eoa4wodiv) · The Register · 2 upvotes · 0 comments - [PwC’s AI agents are now your consultants — whether you’re ready or not](https://daily.dev/posts/pwc-s-ai-agents-are-now-your-consultants-whether-you-re-ready-or-not-9lxa6awq6) · The New Stack · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [How AI is rewriting the rules of consulting](https://daily.dev/posts/how-ai-is-rewriting-the-rules-of-consulting-hriqszkls) · TechCentral · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [PwC is the latest Big Four firm caught publishing AI slop](https://daily.dev/posts/pwc-is-the-latest-big-four-firm-caught-publishing-ai-slop-2xekvdumt) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Hot for its bot, McKinsey may cut thousands of jobs](https://daily.dev/posts/hot-for-its-bot-mckinsey-may-cut-thousands-of-jobs-sn7ugfz7y) · The Register · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#future-of-work](https://daily.dev/tags/future-of-work) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/pwc-is-hiring-fewer-consultants-and-accountants-its-ceo-is-still-sending-his-kids-into-consulting--dlctklrw5) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"PwC is hiring fewer consultants and accountants. 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