Inclusion & Diversity
Our purpose is to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity. Our strategy is to deliver 360° value for all our stakeholders by helping them continuously reinvent. To drive reinvention, innovation must be at the forefront, which requires us to attract, develop and inspire top talent. Talent is one of our most important areas of competitive differentiation.
As part of our talent strategy, we hire and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives and different lived experiences. These differences ensure that we have and attract the cognitive diversity to deliver a variety of perspectives, observations and insights which are essential to drive the innovation needed to reinvent, and we hold our leaders accountable for ensuring we have the most innovative and talented people in our industry.
We recognize that some people come to Accenture having faced obstacles as an aspect of their identity or lived experience. At Accenture, we are committed to embracing these perspectives and to ensuring that all of our people have the opportunity to thrive and unlock their full potential. We are committed to equal opportunity and a workplace free from bias. We are a meritocracy.
Our intention is to foster a culture and a workplace in which all of our people feel a sense of belonging and are respected and empowered to do their best work and to create 360° value for all our stakeholders.
Accenture's 2024 U.S. workforce demographics
Transparency builds trust
We share our workforce demographics because we believe transparency builds trust. We appreciate all our people for the innovation, insight and incredible talent they bring to their work. They continuously raise the bar for what we can accomplish for our clients, the industries we serve and the communities where we work and live.
Commitment to pay equity
We are committed to pay equity and have processes in place to compensate our people fairly—across gender, race and ethnicity. Pay equity at Accenture means that our people receive pay that is fair and consistent when considering similarity of work, location, and tenure at career level. We conduct an annual pay equity review. As of our last review, which reflected pay changes effective December 1, 2024, we had dollar-for-dollar, 100% pay equity for women and men globally (certain subsidiaries, recent acquisitions, and temporary employees were excluded from the analysis). By race and ethnicity, we likewise had dollar-for-dollar, 100% pay equity in the U.S., the U.K. and South Africa, which are the locations where we currently have the data available to use for this purpose.
Median Unadjusted Pay Gap Analysis – Insights into Representation Rates
In addition to our pay equity analysis, we also examine unadjusted pay gaps across gender, race and ethnicity – without controlling for the similarity of work, location and tenure at career level. This analysis gives us insight into the representation rates of our employees by gender and race/ethnicity. The gender and race/ethnicity pay gaps are mainly due to a higher percentage of men and white employees than women and racial minorities, respectively, in senior management positions. For employees in the U.S., our December 1, 2024 analysis shows the median unadjusted base pay for women is 85% of the base pay for men (certain subsidiaries, recent acquisitions, and temporary employees were excluded from the analysis). We also analyze gaps across race and ethnicity. For employees in the U.S., our 2024 analysis shows the median unadjusted base pay for racial and ethnic minority groups is 88% of the base pay for white employees.
While we have a higher percentage of men than women and white employees than ethnic minorities in senior management, we have focused on ensuring that all people have the same skilling and development opportunities throughout their career journeys. We continue our focus on inclusiveness and ensuring a workplace free from bias so that all our people, including the next generation of female and racial minority leaders, are able to fulfill their potential.
Cultivating an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive and achieve their goals is core to our talent strategy.
Yolanda Friend / Americas Inclusion & Diversity Lead
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