---
title: "Outsourced Bookkeeping Cost Index 2026"
description: "What businesses actually pay for outsourced bookkeeping in 2026 across the US, UK, Canada and Australia — monthly fees, hourly rates, close times."
url: https://ledgerbpo.com/research/outsourced-bookkeeping-cost-index/
updated: 2026-09-11
publisher: LedgerBPO (SS Support Network LLC)
language: en-US
---

# Outsourced Bookkeeping Cost Index 2026

Research report

Outsourced bookkeeping cost in 2026 ranges from $150 to $1,600 per month in the US, £100 to £1,500 in the UK, C$300 to C$2,000 in Canada and A$300 to A$1,500 in Australia, according to published provider guides. The Cost Index will add LedgerBPO’s anonymised engagement data (monthly fees, hourly rates and close times) once the owner approves the first release; the method is published now.

- Sourced market data now
- First-party dataset in the next edition
- CC BY 4.0
- CSV download

Updated September 2026

## What the published data says

| Market | Published monthly range | Hourly range | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| United States | $150 to $1,600; review-backed plans $400 to $800 | Offshore $10 to $25; US-based $40 to $75 | indinero, RadCity, NerdWallet, Madras (2026) |
| United Kingdom | £100 to £1,500 fixed | £20 to £55; specialists to £90 | UK provider pricing surveys (2026) |
| Canada | C$300 to C$2,000; most SMBs C$400 to C$800 | Freelance C$30 to C$90; full-charge C$60 to C$90 | Outsource Bookkeeping CA, TheAccTaxCo (2026) |
| Australia | A$300 to A$1,500; 1 to 5 staff A$850 to A$1,800 | Bookkeepers A$40 to A$100; BAS agents A$75 to A$150 | Australian bookkeeping fee surveys (2026) |

Third-party figures as published in 2026; ranges, not LedgerBPO prices or results.1

## Our first-party dataset

This edition is built on published third-party data. The first anonymised LedgerBPO engagement dataset, aggregated across pods with a minimum cell size, is scheduled for the next edition and will be downloadable as CSV at `/research/cost-index-2026.csv` with its own methodology note, collection period and sample size.

## Methodology

- Fields per engagement: market, industry, transaction band, entities, software, monthly fee band, hourly-equivalent, close day achieved, services bundled.
- Anonymisation: no client names, no exact fees; bands only; minimum five engagements per cell before a cell is published.
- Cadence: refreshed twice a year; the CSV carries a version and a date.
- Exclusions: healthcare RCM priced as a percentage of collections is reported separately from bookkeeping fees.

[How we measure our numbers](https://ledgerbpo.com/methodology/)

## How to cite

LedgerBPO, Outsourced Bookkeeping Cost Index 2026, ledgerbpo.com/research/outsourced-bookkeeping-cost-index/. Licensed CC BY 4.0. Please link to this page and keep the version date.

1. Published ranges from the named sources; verify against the source before relying on them. Sector DSO patterns describe typical published shapes and are not LedgerBPO client results.

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