At the published medians, managed IT for 25 users runs $24,000 in year one.

Limitations

• This card was measured on 2026-09-04 at a base of 39,372 in-scope US providers. The rest of this edition is frozen at 39,351 from 2026-09-03; a routine intake of 21 firms moved the base by 0.05% between snapshots. Every figure on this card is quoted against 39,372, and no existing card was rebased.
• Every number here is an advertised rate, not a contract value. Providers who quote only on a call are invisible in this data, and they are not a random sample.
• Each unit is filtered to a plausible range and rates outside it are dropped as extraction errors: per-user $10 to $500, flat monthly $100 to $20,000, hourly $40 to $500, per-device $5 to $500, per-server $10 to $1,000, one-time $100 to $50,000.
• Two units are shown on thin samples and should not be leaned on: per-endpoint monthly rests on 19 firms and per-project on 14. Both are named in the text where they appear.
• The eleven-user crossover compares the median of 276 firms publishing a flat fee against the median of 367 firms publishing a seat rate. It is not one provider's own break-even.
• The $24,000 first year is arithmetic on two medians, $75 a seat for 25 seats over twelve months, plus a $1,500 setup fee. No provider quoted that number; it is what the middle of the published market implies.
• Prices are read off crawled pages, and pages have been read on 32,252 of 39,372 firms. A firm whose site we have not read counts as publishing nothing, so 2.3% is a floor.

What to do with this

• Buying: convert every quote into the same unit for your actual headcount before comparing, and ask for the one-time fee in writing. At 25 users the middle of the published market is $1,875 a month plus $1,500 once.
• Selling: 97.7% of US providers publish no price at all. A starting rate and a named setup fee put you in the small group a buyer can shortlist before the call.

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