Everyone, we are pleased to welcome you to this meeting presenting Wavestone's annual revenue for the fiscal year 2023/2024. Today, the speakers are Pascal Imbert, Co-Founder and CEO of Wavestone. Hello, Pascal.
Hello, Justine. Hello to all.
Laurent Stoupy, CFO of Wavestone. Hello, Laurent.
Hello, Justine. Hello, everyone.
Laurent, the floor is yours.
Thank you, Justine. Let's start with Wavestone's activity in Q4. Revenue was EUR 248.8 million over the period, a growth of 59% compared with Q4 of the last fiscal year. This 59% growth includes contribution from Q_PERIOR and Aspirant Consulting. At constant exchange rates and scope, excluding Q_PERIOR and Aspirant Consulting, and also excluding PEN Partnership and Cœus Consulting, organic growth was 4%. As expected, the firm's growth has slowed down in the context of a hardening business environment. Q4 was also affected by a negative working day impact of -1.5%. Finally, over the fiscal year, revenue of total scope grew by 32%, reaching EUR 701.1 million.
Excluding Q_PERIOR and Aspirant Consulting, revenue was EUR 586.9 million, above the objective of EUR 580 million. At constant parameter and exchange rate, growth was 9% above the organic growth target of 7%. As a reminder, the working day impact was unfavorable over the year, at -1.6%. Let's look now at the operational indicators. As a reminder, these relate to Wavestone scope, excluding Q_PERIOR and Aspirant Consulting. We will start using consolidated KPIs across the new firms from Q1 2024- 2025. The consultant utilization rate fell slightly in Q4, but by less than expected. Our clients were more cautious at the start of the calendar year, and the U.K. business environment was less favorable. Over the whole year, the utilization rate was 73%, the same as last year.
For sales price, the average daily rate was EUR 898, up 1%, compared with EUR 890 the previous year. At constant exchange rates, the average daily rate was EUR 900. The firm's order book was down slightly. It was 4.1 months of work at the end of March, compared with 4.2 months at the end of December. Regarding human resources, the staff turnover rate remained stable over the last quarter. Over the fiscal year, and excluding Q_PERIOR and Aspirant Consulting, it was 14% at the end of March 2024, compared with 16% one year earlier. As the economic environment continued to weaken, we maintained a moderate pace of hiring at the beginning of the calendar year.
In the end, during the whole year, the firm recruited about 800 new employees, compared to approximately 1,300 in the previous year. In parallel with Wavestone, Q_PERIOR is maintaining a cautious recruitment policy, while its staff turnover rate remains low at around 10%. Finally, the total number of employees at the end of March 2024 was just under 5,900, including 1,422 from Q_PERIOR and Aspirant. I'm now going to hand over to Pascal.
Thank you, Laurent. Now, a few words about Q_PERIOR's activity. The company is experiencing a fairly similar start to calendar 2024 to that of Wavestone. Indeed, even if the German economic environment is significantly depressed, the impact on Q_PERIOR is limited by the resilience of demand in the insurance, transportation, and energy sectors, sectors in which the company is particularly active. Q_PERIOR has therefore been able to maintain its utilization rates at the start of 2024, in line with its business plan, with levels comparable to those of 2023 last months. To be noted, though, as expected, and like the rest of Wavestone, the firm experienced a marked slowdown in growth over the period. With regard to the integration program, the first steps have been successfully completed.
Q_PERIOR teams will switch to the Wavestone brand on May 24th, and commercial synergies are multiplying in promising ways, whether in the insurance sector or in areas such as SAP consulting or cybersecurity. Now, to our guidance for the 2023/ 2024 fiscal year. Laurent mentioned it a few minutes ago, our revenue, excluding Q_PERIOR and Aspirant, was at EUR 586.9 million, which was above our initial objective of EUR 580 million. Regarding profitability, we confirm our objective of generating an annual EBIT margin of about 15%, still excluding Q_PERIOR and Aspirant Consulting. Let's end with a few words about our outlook for the 2024/2025 fiscal year that has just started. As we have just seen, 2024 begins with an unfavorable business environment, resulting in a slowdown in organic growth.
We had anticipated this slowdown, and for some time now, we have been moderating our pace of recruitment on both the Wavestone and Q_PERIOR sides. Nevertheless, we remain confident in our ability to achieve growth in the fiscal year 2024/2025, at over 3%, while targeting an EBIT margin of more than 13%. Figures that now cover the entire new Wavestone scope, that is to say, including Q_PERIOR and Aspirant Consulting, but excluding any new acquisition. We will confirm our financial objectives for 2024/2025 on June 3rd, on the occasion of the publication of our detailed annual results. So that covers the commentary on our figures for the fiscal year and our outlook.
Thank you, Pascal. I let you conclude.
Well, thank you very much for attending this conference call, relating to our 2024, 2023/2024 revenue and our outlook for the coming fiscal year. Our next meeting will take place on June 3rd, 2024, for the publication of the 2023/2024 annual results, and detailed guidance about our next fiscal year, 2024/2025. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Thank you, bye.