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SOC 2 Readiness FirmsPenetration Testing FirmsvCISO FirmsISO 27001 ConsultantsCompliance ConsultantsAll Service FirmsOriginal figures aggregated from the 167 SOC 2 audit firms we track, plus the public-data series we refresh each month. Every number below carries its method, its sample, and the date we computed it. Cite any of it with attribution.
The median SOC 2 Type 1 audit fee across the 167 firms we track is $32,500, with 80% of firms falling between $18,100 and $55,000.
Source: SOC 2 Auditors, https://soc2auditors.org/data/#type-1-median-cost (retrieved 2026-06-12). The median SOC 2 Type 2 audit fee across the 167 firms we track is $52,500, with 80% of firms falling between $30,000 and $100,000.
Source: SOC 2 Auditors, https://soc2auditors.org/data/#type-2-median-cost (retrieved 2026-06-12). These are headline aggregates. See the full sourced cost breakdown by tier and add-on.
The median fieldwork-to-report window across the 167 firms we track is 9 weeks.
Source: SOC 2 Auditors, https://soc2auditors.org/data/#median-audit-timeline (retrieved 2026-06-12). Of the 167 firms we track, the most common fieldwork-to-report window is 9 to 12 weeks, quoted by 85 firms.
Source: SOC 2 Auditors, https://soc2auditors.org/data/#timeline-distribution (retrieved 2026-06-12). Estimate a timeline for your own scope with the SOC 2 timeline calculator.
The 167 firms we track operate across 7 countries.
Source: SOC 2 Auditors, https://soc2auditors.org/data/#firms-by-country (retrieved 2026-06-12). 71% of the SOC 2 audit firms we track are based in the United States.
Source: SOC 2 Auditors, https://soc2auditors.org/data/#share-us-based (retrieved 2026-06-12). Specialist firms are the largest tier among the 167 SOC 2 auditors we track, accounting for 64 of them.
Source: SOC 2 Auditors, https://soc2auditors.org/data/#firms-by-tier (retrieved 2026-06-12). The median firm we track reports a team of about 550 people.
Source: SOC 2 Auditors, https://soc2auditors.org/data/#team-size-distribution (retrieved 2026-06-12). The median founding year among the firms we track is 1985.
Source: SOC 2 Auditors, https://soc2auditors.org/data/#founding-year-distribution (retrieved 2026-06-12). Across the 167 firms we track we record 84 distinct accreditation labels; the most common, AICPA, appears on 150 of them.
Source: SOC 2 Auditors, https://soc2auditors.org/data/#accreditation-prevalence (retrieved 2026-06-12). 31% of the firms we track name at least one GRC platform they work with.
Source: SOC 2 Auditors, https://soc2auditors.org/data/#grc-platform-support (retrieved 2026-06-12). 7% of the 5,912 Y Combinator companies we scanned publish a public trust page claiming SOC 2, about 1 in 14.
Source: SOC 2 Auditors, https://soc2auditors.org/data/#yc-soc2-trust-page-share (retrieved 2026-06-12). Of the 1,548 YC companies with a public trust page, the most common host is self-hosted (1458).
Source: SOC 2 Auditors, https://soc2auditors.org/data/#trust-center-platform-share (retrieved 2026-06-12). SOC 2 trust-page adoption among YC companies rises with company age, from the newest batches to the oldest cohorts we scanned.
Source: SOC 2 Auditors, https://soc2auditors.org/data/#soc2-adoption-by-batch (retrieved 2026-06-12). See the cohort and trust-center platform breakdowns on the SOC 2 adoption data page.
94% of the 118 US-based SOC 2 audit firms we track are enrolled in the AICPA peer-review program.
Source: SOC 2 Auditors, https://soc2auditors.org/data/#directory-firms-peer-review-enrolled (retrieved 2026-06-11). Among the 88 directory firms whose AICPA peer-review result is public (a member/opt-in subset, not the whole directory), the results break down as recorded; we do not extrapolate this to firms that do not disclose.
Source: SOC 2 Auditors, https://soc2auditors.org/data/#peer-review-rating-disclosed-subset (retrieved 2026-06-11). Read the enrollment and disclosed-result analysis on the SOC 2 audit-firm data page.
We counted 4,861 active IT-audit job postings on company career sites across the US, UK, and Canada in 2026-06.
Source: SOC 2 Auditors, https://soc2auditors.org/data/#it-audit-job-postings-total (retrieved 2026-06-11). Across audit and compliance roles, IT audit is the most common (4,861). Dedicated "SOC 2 auditor" titles are rare (2); demand surfaces as the broader roles. These are separate keyword searches with overlapping coverage, so we compare them rather than add them up.
Source: SOC 2 Auditors, https://soc2auditors.org/data/#compliance-job-postings-by-role (retrieved 2026-06-11). Explore the country and role comparisons on the compliance hiring data page.
The internal figures on this page are computed from our directory of 167 SOC 2 audit firms. Cost and timeline figures use each firm's published range midpoint; we report the median (p50) and, where stated, the 10th to 90th percentile band, so eight in ten firms fall inside it. Counts and shares are simple tallies over the same dataset. A firm missing a field is excluded from that figure's sample, never counted as a zero.
Our pricing figures are public-records estimates, not firm-confirmed quotes. They describe what firms publish and what the market reports, not a binding price for any engagement. A CPA firm sets the final fee after scoping your systems. Treat every number here as a planning aggregate with a known method, dated so you can judge how current it is.
The adoption figures come from a scan of Y Combinator company domains for public trust and security pages, including hosted trust-center fingerprints and visible SOC 2 claims. The scan is deliberately conservative: a company is counted only when the public page exposes enough evidence for the detector, so inaccessible or JavaScript-only pages may be missed rather than inferred.
The audit-firm figures join US firms in our directory to the AICPA public peer-review file search. Enrollment is reported over the full matched US directory sample. Ratings are reported only for the member or opt-in subset whose result is public; we do not extrapolate those disclosed results to firms that do not disclose.
The hiring figures are a demand proxy, not a SOC 2 headcount. We aggregate from a public job-postings index that crawls companies' own applicant-tracking-system career sites and matches title and department tokens. We compare separate role searches rather than summing them because their coverage can overlap, and the headline count uses IT audit alone across the US, UK, and Canada.
We refresh this dataset monthly. It was last computed on 2026-06-12; the next refresh is planned for 2026-07-13. Each figure carries its own computed date in case a single series moves between refreshes.
Maintained by Peter Korpak. Questions, corrections, or a stale number? Email hello@soc2auditors.org and we will reply within two business days.
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