What is the average hourly rate on GSA Schedules?
The median published hourly rate on GSA Schedule contracts is $124 per hour, computed across 331,614 awarded labor rates. Half of all rates fall between $89 per hour and $166 per hour.
Source: The Federal Labor Rate Benchmark, BidSparq
Data as of: August 17, 2026 (refreshed weekly)
Sample: 331,614 published GSA Schedule labor rates
License: free to cite with attribution to BidSparq
Essential statistics
- Median GSA Schedule rate: $124 per hour.
- 25th percentile: $89 per hour. 75th percentile: $166 per hour.
- Published rates span $15 per hour to $1511 per hour.
- Sample: 331,614 awarded rates across 124,214 labor categories.
What this means
We report the median rather than the mean because a small number of very high specialist rates would otherwise pull the average up and mislead anyone pricing a bid. These are ceiling rates the government has already accepted on GSA Schedule contracts, which makes them the practical benchmark for pricing federal services work.
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