Blended rate calculator: Professional Billing Rates
The Professional Billing Rates carries 4 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages, from 19.67 to 579 GBP, read 12 October 2026.
Yearendo 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.
2 of the 16 named sources read in full publish a figure; 14 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
By role
| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| roleall-employees-median | 19.67GBP | 19.67 to 19.67GBP | 1 |
| rolesolicitor-8yr-plus | 579GBP | 579 to 579GBP | 1 |
| roleother-solicitors-and-fee-earners | 305GBP | 305 to 305GBP | 1 |
| roletrainee-and-paralegal | 210GBP | 210 to 210GBP | 1 |
Every figure, with its source
One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, 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 | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guideline hourly rates for solicitors (GOV.UK) | 579GBP | solicitor-8yr-plus | 2026-10-12 |
| Guideline hourly rates for solicitors (GOV.UK) | 305GBP | other-solicitors-and-fee-earners | 2026-10-12 |
| Guideline hourly rates for solicitors (GOV.UK) | 210GBP | trainee-and-paralegal | 2026-10-12 |
| ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2025 | 19.67GBP | all-employees-median | 2026-10-12 |
The sentence each figure was read from (4)
- Guideline hourly rates for solicitors (GOV.UK), read 2026-10-12:
Grade Fee earner London 1 London 2 London 3 National 1 National 2 A Solicitors and legal executives with over 8 years’ experience £579 £422 £319 £295 £288
- Guideline hourly rates for solicitors (GOV.UK), read 2026-10-12:
C Other solicitors or legal executives and fee earners of equivalent experience £305 £276 £209 £201 £200
- Guideline hourly rates for solicitors (GOV.UK), read 2026-10-12:
D Trainee solicitors, paralegals and other fee earners £210 £157 £146 £142 £142
- ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 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%).
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.
- Guideline hourly rates (Judiciary of England and Wales), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- USAO Laffey Matrix 1992-2003 (US DOJ), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- USAO Laffey Matrix 1981-1992 (US DOJ), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- US Trustee fee guidelines, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- BLS OES: Lawyers (23-1011), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- BLS OES: Accountants and Auditors (13-2011), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- BLS OES: Management Analysts (13-1111), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- BLS OES: Marketing Managers (11-2021), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- BLS OES: Paralegals and Legal Assistants (23-2011), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- BLS OES: Bookkeeping, Accounting and Auditing Clerks (43-3031), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Civil Procedure Rules Part 44 (legislation.gov.uk), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- State Bar of Arizona economics of law practice, read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Oregon State Bar hourly rate survey, read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- State Bar of Michigan economics of law practice, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
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).
2 of the 16 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 for each breakdown it prices, in GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences for one breakdown), so a page that gives figures for several breakdowns gives one for each and N counts 4 figures, never sentences; 12 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): one row per role per seniority per region: the authority's own hourly figure (the court and fee-shifting matrices, the guideline hourly rates, the occupational wage percentiles) with its effective date, and the blended rate computed across a stated team mix - which is exactly what the calculator keywords ask for and what no single authority publishes, because each publishes one role at a time.
The derived figures: the blended rate for a named team shape, the multiple of the wage percentile at which each role bills, and the change per rate year.
12 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (16)
- Guideline hourly rates for solicitors (GOV.UK)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Guideline hourly rates (Judiciary of England and Wales)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2025(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- USAO Laffey Matrix 1992-2003 (US DOJ)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- USAO Laffey Matrix 1981-1992 (US DOJ)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- US Trustee fee guidelines(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS OES: Lawyers (23-1011)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS OES: Accountants and Auditors (13-2011)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS OES: Management Analysts (13-1111)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS OES: Marketing Managers (11-2021)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS OES: Paralegals and Legal Assistants (23-2011)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS OES: Bookkeeping, Accounting and Auditing Clerks (43-3031)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Civil Procedure Rules Part 44 (legislation.gov.uk)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- State Bar of Arizona economics of law practice(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Oregon State Bar hourly rate survey(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- State Bar of Michigan economics of law practice(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The Professional Billing Rates carries 4 published figures read from 2 sources' own pages, from 19.67 to 579 GBP, read 12 October 2026.
2 of the 16 named sources read in full publish a figure; 14 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
Professional Billing Rates, role all-employees-median: median 19.67 GBP across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
Professional Billing Rates, role solicitor-8yr-plus: median 579 GBP across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
Professional Billing Rates, role other-solicitors-and-fee-earners: median 305 GBP across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
Professional Billing Rates, role trainee-and-paralegal: median 210 GBP across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
Cite as: "Yearendo Professional Billing Rates", updated 2026-10-18, https://yearendo.com/datasets/professional-billing-rates/.
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