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Law Firm Billable Rate Comparison Tool

Compare your firm's rates with current Clio state and practice-area benchmarks, refined to your city using official U.S. labor-market and Census geography data.

Current 2025 benchmarks 32,010 U.S. places Transparent methodology

Step 1: Select Practice Area and Location

Billable paralegals?

Contingent/Fixed Fee

Practice Areas Select up to six areas. If you choose more than one, you can adjust the firm's practice mix below.

State

City / Place Select a state to load cities.

Practice portfolio

Practice-area pricing breakdown

Use the percentages to reflect your expected matter or revenue mix. The other areas rebalance automatically so the blended benchmark always totals 100%.

100% mix Weighted blended firm benchmark

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Blended Modeled Local Attorney Billable Rate

Average Profit Margin

Blended Modeled Local Nonlawyer Billable Rate

Attorney Rate Breakdown

Entry Level Associate
Mid-Level Associate
Senior Associate

Junior Partner
Senior Partner
Managing Partner

Contingent/Fixed Fee

Your Firm's Total Anual Revenue

$100

Your Firm's Total Attorney Count 1

Your Firm's Average Attorney Work Day Length 10 hr

Utilization Rate- Lawyer 34 %

Your Firm's Total Paralegals Count 1

Your Firm's Average Paralegal Work Day Length 8 hr

Utilization Rate- Paralegal 73 %

Lawyer Effective Billable Rate

Paralegal Effective Billable Rate

Your firm

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Industry benchmark35%

Live comparison

See where your firm stands

Your numbers compared with the selected modeled local market.

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Step 4: What Does the Data Mean?

Causes

Potential Solutions

Step 5: Raising Your Rates and Retaining Your Clients

Schedule Your Rate-Raising Strategy Creation Meeting (Free)

You will meet with us to discuss and identify the primary value drivers for your firm’s clients that meaningfully enhance their experience working with you. We will then do all the heavy lifting and use our framework to incorporate these high-value, low-effort elements into your service offering to enable you to raise your rates while delivering an enhanced client experience. Happy, high-paying clients = growing law firm.

Law Firm Billable Rate Comparison Tool

Step 1: Select Practice Area and Location

Practice-area pricing breakdown

Attorney Rate Breakdown

Contingent/Fixed Fee

Enter your current rates

See where your firm stands

Your firm vs. local benchmark

Your margin vs. benchmark

Step 4: What Does the Data Mean?

Causes

Potential Solutions

Step 5: Raising Your Rates and Retaining Your Clients