Professional Services Rate Benchmark
The median published figure in the Professional Services Rate Benchmark is 44.32 USD across 6 sources' own pages in USD (range 16.84 to 48.97 USD; 7 sources publish a figure), read 12 October 2026.
Sowbird sells its own paid plan in this category (our pricing). It is not counted here: every figure in this index is another provider's own published price, read from its own page.
7 of the 21 named sources read in full publish a figure; 14 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 44.32 USD across 6).
Every figure, with its source
One row per published figure: the figure as the source's own page publishes it, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
| Source | Figure | Read |
|---|---|---|
| BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: Management Analysts | 48.97USD | 2026-09-12 |
| BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: Web Developers and Digital Designers | 47.85USD | 2026-09-12 |
| BLS OEWS: Management Analysts (13-1111) | 47.8USD | 2026-10-12 |
| BLS OEWS: Web Developers (15-1254) | 40.84USD | 2026-10-12 |
| BLS OEWS national table 1 (all occupations) | 33.54USD | 2026-10-12 |
| ONS: Employee earnings in the UK 2025 | 19.67GBP | 2026-10-12 |
| BLS OEWS: Janitors and Cleaners (37-2011) | 16.84USD | 2026-10-12 |
The sentence each figure was read from (7)
- BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: Management Analysts, read 2026-09-12:
$48.97 per hour
- BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: Web Developers and Digital Designers, read 2026-09-12:
$47.85 per hour
- BLS OEWS: Management Analysts (13-1111), read 2026-10-12:
Hourly Wage $ 27.81 $ 35.84 $ 47.80 $ 62.89 $ 82.83
- BLS OEWS: Web Developers (15-1254), read 2026-10-12:
Hourly Wage $ 22.53 $ 29.66 $ 40.84 $ 55.95 $ 75.61
- BLS OEWS national table 1 (all occupations), read 2026-10-12:
Hourly Annual(1) wages All occupations 155,495,730 $33.54 $69,770 $24.51
- ONS: Employee earnings in the UK 2025, read 2026-10-12:
Median hourly earnings (excluding overtime) for full-time employees were £19.67 an hour in April 2025, compared with £18.66 in April 2024 (an increase of 5.4%).
- BLS OEWS: Janitors and Cleaners (37-2011), read 2026-10-12:
Hourly Wage $ 12.39 $ 14.22 $ 16.84 $ 19.05 $ 23.18
Read in full, publishes no figure
14 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- GSA CALC+ Quick Rate (MAS ceiling rates), read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- GSA: buying professional services through MAS, read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GSA OASIS+: pricing and wage rates, read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- BLS OEWS: Accountants and Auditors (13-2011), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics news release, read 2026-10-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- BLS OEWS tables index, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- US DOL Wage and Hour Division: service contracts (SCA), read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- SAM.gov wage determinations, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- SAM.gov SCA wage determination 2025-0062, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- SAM.gov SCA wage determination 1974-1257, read 2026-10-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- Washington State DES contract 05919 (janitorial services), read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
- ONS ASHE table 2: earnings by two-digit SOC occupation, read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GSA CALC+ user guide for labor ceiling rates, read 2026-09-12: every candidate on the page was refused
Methodology
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).
7 of the 21 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 14 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.
The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in USD (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 107 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.
The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): for each discipline, the median and quartiles of the hourly rate a public body AWARDED (GSA's contract-awarded labour categories and the published MAS ceiling rates) set beside the wage the statistical agency measures for the same occupation (BLS OEWS in the US, ONS ASHE in GB) - so the page can show the MULTIPLE between what the professional is paid and what the service bills, per discipline.
Nobody publishes that ratio: the rate tools publish awarded prices with no wage, and the wage agencies publish wages with no billing rate.
A proposal page opens on its own discipline's multiple and the floor a wage determination sets.
107 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (21)
- GSA CALC+ Quick Rate (MAS ceiling rates)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GSA: buying professional services through MAS(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GSA OASIS+: pricing and wage rates(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS OEWS: Management Analysts (13-1111)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS OEWS: Web Developers (15-1254)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS OEWS: Janitors and Cleaners (37-2011)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS OEWS: Accountants and Auditors (13-2011)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics news release(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS OEWS national table 1 (all occupations)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS OEWS tables index(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: Management Analysts(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook: Web Developers and Digital Designers(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- US DOL Wage and Hour Division: service contracts (SCA)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- SAM.gov wage determinations(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- SAM.gov SCA wage determination 2025-0062(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- SAM.gov SCA wage determination 1974-1257(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Washington State DES contract 05919 (janitorial services)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ONS: Employee earnings in the UK 2025(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ONS ASHE table 2: earnings by two-digit SOC occupation(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GSA CALC+ user guide for labor ceiling rates(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The median published figure in the Professional Services Rate Benchmark is 44.32 USD across 6 sources' own pages in USD (range 16.84 to 48.97 USD; 7 sources publish a figure), read 12 October 2026.
7 of the 21 named sources read in full publish a figure; 14 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 44.32 USD across 6).
Cite as: "Sowbird Professional Services Rate Benchmark", updated 2026-11-01, https://sowbird.com/datasets/professional-services-rate-benchmark/.
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