CONSULTING INDUSTRY STATISTICS

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A complete analysis of the Consulting Industry, including trends, statistics and profiles of the 250 most successful Consulting companies, is available in the Consulting Industry Almanac.

Consulting Industry Summary: 2004
Worldwide Consulting Revenues 20041	$120 billion
Projected Annual Compound Growth of Consulting Market, 2003-20072	3.10%
IT Consulting Portion of Total Consulting Market1	60% to 70%
Additional Outsourcing Revenues 20043	$240 billion
Employment in U.S. Consulting Firms4 (Management and IT)	785,000
1 Plunkett Research Estimate
2 Source: Kennedy Information
3 Primarily IT-related.
4 U.S. Bureau of Labor
Source: Plunkett Research, Ltd., www.plunkettresearch.com