A rate figure is only as useful as the sample behind it. This report is one snapshot of the hourly rates that vetted Workday consultants set on their own Turbin profiles, broken down every way the data allows, with the population, the method and the minimum sample stated so a reader can see what each figure rests on.
It is the source the other rate guides draw on, and it stays close to the data. For what the numbers mean for a hire, read what a Workday consultant costs; for location, time zones and when they matter, read the rates by country guide.
What is the overall rate distribution across the network?
The median Workday consultant on Turbin sets $92 an hour, across every vetted profile. The 25th percentile is $75 and the 75th $120; the 10th and 90th percentiles sit at $45 and $135. These are hourly rates in US dollars, before any fee.
| Population | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Workday consultants 19 countries, every module | $45 | $75 | $92 | $120 | $135 |
USD per hour, before any fee. 10th, 25th, 75th and 90th are percentiles: a quarter of consultants set a rate at or below the 25th.
The spread is wide because the population is: 19 countries, every Workday module, and consultants from their first years in Workday to their second decade. The sections below break it down so a rate can be compared with its peers rather than with the whole network.
Who is counted, and how is it calculated?
The population is every active consultant on Turbin who passed the admission review and has a complete profile with a positive hourly rate in US dollars. Accounts still onboarding are excluded, and consultants who quote only a day rate are not in the figures. The rate is the one the consultant set on their own profile, before Turbin's flat 20% fee, which the client pays on top; the consultant receives their full rate.
Percentiles use linear interpolation between ranked rates, the same definition as Postgres
percentile_cont, so a percentile can fall between two consultants' rates. Any module,
experience band or country with fewer than ten profiles is dropped rather than published, and a certified
median appears only where ten or more consultants in the row hold a validated certification.
A consultant who lists several modules counts once in each, so the module pools overlap and together exceed the network. Payroll US and Payroll Canada are collapsed into a single Payroll US/CA row; Payroll UK is reported on its own. "Certified" means holding a certification for that module which Turbin validated against the partner record: 66% of consultants hold at least one, and the rest passed the same admission review without one.
The figures come from a single snapshot of Turbin's production database, dated in the source line at the top of this page, and they are frozen: they will not be revised. A later edition is published as a new dated snapshot rather than as an edit to this one.
What does each Workday module charge per hour?
32 Workday modules clear the ten-profile minimum. Adaptive Planning has the highest median at $125; Core HCM is the largest pool on the network, with a median of $80. Weighted by profiles, Financials modules run highest ($106) and HCM modules lowest ($84).
The large pools cluster tightly and most of the spread lives in the small ones. Every module with 30 or more profiles has a median between $80 and $125, while several smaller Financials pools, such as Expenses and FDM at $120, sit near the top of the range. Read a small pool's median as indicative: in the smallest rows, one or two consultants move it.
HCM (13 modules)
| Module | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th | Cert. median |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core HCM Workers, organizations, business processes, security groups | $45 | $65 | $80 | $110 | $125 | $90 |
| Absence Leave plans, accruals, time-off eligibility | $45 | $60 | $80 | $100 | $120 | $95 |
| Time Tracking Time entry, calculations, approvals | $40 | $60 | $80 | $105 | $120 | $90 |
| Benefits Plans, enrollment events, carrier files | $45 | $65 | $85 | $109 | $125 | $105 |
| Compensation Comp plans, merit and bonus cycles | $45 | $70 | $85 | $119 | $125 | $118 |
| Advanced Compensation Stock, bonus pools, complex eligibility | $52 | $64 | $80 | $100 | $114 | n/a |
| Core Compensation Grades, packages, one-time payments | $45 | $55 | $80 | $100 | $120 | n/a |
| Recruiting Requisitions, pipelines, offers, career sites | $48 | $70 | $85 | $110 | $125 | $115 |
| Talent and Performance Reviews, goals, succession, calibration | $50 | $80 | $95 | $120 | $140 | $120 |
| Learning Courses, campaigns, compliance training | $50 | $78 | $90 | $108 | $120 | $120 |
| Scheduling Shift scheduling, labor demand | $26 | $45 | $80 | $120 | $125 | n/a |
| Payroll (US and Canada) Pay groups, earnings, tax setup, retro | $50 | $80 | $90 | $115 | $125 | $120 |
| Payroll (UK) UK pay, HMRC, pensions | $60 | $80 | $80 | $90 | $150 | n/a |
Financials (11 modules)
| Module | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th | Cert. median |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core Finance Ledger, journals, close, allocations | $53 | $80 | $100 | $130 | $142 | $110 |
| Procurement Requisitions, POs, supplier contracts | $63 | $90 | $105 | $125 | $130 | $110 |
| Expenses Expense reports, policies, card feeds | $92 | $98 | $120 | $130 | $131 | n/a |
| Banking and Settlement Bank accounts, settlement runs, reconciliation | $80 | $88 | $100 | $130 | $147 | n/a |
| Business Assets Asset registration, depreciation, disposal | $80 | $95 | $110 | $130 | $150 | n/a |
| Customer Accounts Invoicing, receivables, collections | $74 | $95 | $110 | $130 | $150 | n/a |
| Revenue Contracts, recognition schedules | $62 | $91 | $110 | $130 | $148 | n/a |
| Budgets Budget structures, checks, amendments | $60 | $88 | $110 | $130 | $133 | n/a |
| Accounting Center Sub-ledger transformation, high-volume accounting | $43 | $80 | $95 | $135 | $144 | n/a |
| FDM Foundation data model, worktags, hierarchies | $94 | $95 | $120 | $149 | $168 | n/a |
| Supply Chain Inventory, receiving, par management | $90 | $95 | $110 | $128 | $135 | n/a |
Planning and analytics (3 modules)
| Module | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th | Cert. median |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adaptive Planning FP&A models, workforce and sales planning | $50 | $80 | $125 | $135 | $150 | $128 |
| Prism Analytics Data ingestion, blended datasets | $50 | $60 | $80 | $108 | $142 | $100 |
| Reporting Custom reports, dashboards, calculated fields | $45 | $65 | $85 | $115 | $130 | $100 |
Technical (4 modules)
| Module | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th | Cert. median |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Integrations EIB, Core Connectors, web services | $45 | $60 | $80 | $100 | $126 | $100 |
| Studio Complex integrations, orchestration | $50 | $80 | $95 | $120 | $130 | $110 |
| Extend Custom apps on the Workday platform | $50 | $80 | $90 | $100 | $120 | n/a |
| Security Domain and business-process policies, segregation of duties | $50 | $80 | $92 | $118 | $135 | $85 |
Other (1 module)
| Module | 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th | Cert. median |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project Management | $52 | $60 | $105 | $125 | $129 | n/a |
USD per hour, before any fee. Certified: consultants in the row holding a Turbin-validated certification for the module; certified median shown where ten or more do. A consultant listing several modules counts in each row.
How do rates change with years in Workday?
Median rates rise with experience through the 8 to 11 year band and then level off: $80 under 5 years, $90 at 5 to 7 years, $108 at 8 to 11 years and $105 at 12 years and up. The median consultant in the network has 7 years in Workday.
| Years in Workday | Median |
|---|---|
| Under 5 years | $80 |
| 5 to 7 years | $90 |
| 8 to 11 years | $108 |
| 12 years and up | $105 |
USD per hour, before any fee. 99% of profiles record years in Workday; the rest have no figure and sit outside the bands.
The flattening at the top matters for anyone budgeting a senior hire. Past the 8 to 11 year band the data does not show further tenure buying a higher rate, so the module and the work explain more of the difference between two senior consultants than their years do.
How do rates differ by country?
Country produces the widest spread of any breakdown in this report, from $100 in the United States to $35 in Argentina. The network spans 19 countries, and those with ten or more profiles are the United States (median $100), Canada ($90), India ($65), Mexico ($39), and Argentina ($35). The remaining profiles are in countries under the reporting minimum or carry no country on the profile.
| Country | Median |
|---|---|
| United States | $100 |
| Canada | $90 |
| India | $65 |
| Mexico | $39 |
| Argentina | $35 |
USD per hour, before any fee. Country as recorded on the consultant's profile. Countries with fewer than ten profiles are not reported.
What location means for a hire (time-zone overlap, payroll and tax localization, on-site needs) is covered in the rates by country guide.
What does a typical engagement look like?
Across engagements run through Turbin to date (active, finished and ended early), the median engagement is 15 hours a week for about 6 months. Contracts still running are measured up to the snapshot, which understates their final length, so treat 6 months as a floor rather than a ceiling.
Part-time is the norm, not the exception: the median contract is well under half a working week, and 72% of consultants take part-time work. Nearly all work remotely, 10% are open to on-site work, and 17% are open to a permanent role. The agency markup guide prices the median shape through an agency, through Turbin and direct.
How do you download and cite it?
The per-module table is a free CSV download:
workday-consultant-rates-2026-10-02.csv, 32 rows, one per module. The
columns are
module, family, p10, p25, median, p75, p90, certified_median.
Rates are in USD per hour, and certified_median is blank where fewer than ten consultants in the
row are certified.
To cite the report: Turbin, Workday Consultant Rate Report, October 2026, https://turbin.ai/guides/workday-consultant-rate-report. This edition is the snapshot of Oct 2, 2026: 32 modules, 19 countries.
Questions we get asked.
Because consultants list every module they work in, and a profile counts once in each. A consultant who lists Core HCM, Absence and Time Tracking appears in all three rows, which is why the Core HCM and Reporting pools together already exceed the network. Compare rates within a module using its row, and use the headline figure (median $92) for the network as a whole.
Any module with fewer than ten profiles is left out rather than published, because a median from five or six rates swings with a single consultant. Grants, Capital Projects, Project Billing and PSA fall under that minimum in this edition. Consultants who list them are still counted in the headline distribution, and a later edition will add a module once its pool reaches ten.
They are the hourly rates consultants set on their own Turbin profiles, the same figure a client sees before the first conversation. When a consultant is hired through Turbin they receive their full rate; the client pays it plus a flat 20%