Forty-seven US growth agencies price outside the $25 to $300 band, and the two extremes are the same size
Correction, November 7, 2026. Recomputed on Clutch-published rates: 39 firms price outside $25 to $300 an hour (22 above $300, 17 below $25), 3.1% of firms with a published rate. The most common band is $150 to $199 at 38.7%, not $100 to $149. The $100 to $149 lead in the original came from placeholder rates on listings added August 9.
Only 22 firms in The Wall's index charge above $300 per hour, and only 25 charge below $25. The two ends of the US growth-services market together hold 1.8% of firms that publish a rate.
The Wall's August 9 snapshot holds 2,614 listings that publish an hourly-rate band. Of those, 47 sit outside a broad $25 to $300 window. Twenty-two firms charge above $300 per hour, and twenty-five charge below $25. The two ends of the US growth-services market are almost the same size, and together they account for 1.8% of firms that publish a rate.
The two ends of the disclosed-rate market
| Rate band | Firms | Share of disclosed |
|---|---|---|
| $300+ / hr | 22 | 0.84% |
| < $25 / hr | 25 | 0.96% |
| Combined tails | 47 | 1.80% |
| $100 - $149 / hr (modal band, for comparison) | 1,456 | 55.7% |
The middle of the market is compressed harder than most buyers expect. The single modal band, $100 to $149, holds more than half of all disclosing firms on its own, and 55.7% of disclosing firms is 31 times the combined tails. A US agency quoting inside $100 to $199 is quoting the same price that 82.2% of the disclosing market quotes.
What each tail actually contains
The Wall's index does not record why a firm sets its rate where it does, so the following reads are interpretation rather than data. A $300-plus rate in this market is a specialization signal. The 22 firms in the top band staff engagements with senior operators, and the rate covers senior salary loads rather than a wide profit margin. The read on the under-$25 end runs the opposite way. A US-headquartered agency cannot staff junior labor in the United States at that rate, so the 25 firms in the bottom band are either running offshore delivery or quoting a floor that gets negotiated up on the first call.
For a buyer, the extreme rates are almost never the right answer. A firm at $300-plus is the wrong choice for anything short of a partner-level strategic engagement, and a firm under $25 is the wrong choice for anything that needs US-based delivery. The 2,497 firms priced between $50 and $299 hold 95.5% of the disclosing market, and that band is where a serious shortlist lives. Rate disclosure by pillar is covered in the transparency map, and the broader rate distribution in the base rate briefing.
One sourcing note. The 2,614 count is disclosing firms that publish a band from the August 9 snapshot of 3,460 listings. 298 firms publish a rate record marked undisclosed, and 548 firms publish no rate record at all, so the disclosed shares above exclude 846 listings without a usable rate. The two-tail counts (22 and 25) are literal firm counts, not estimates or modeled figures.
How this was computed. Figures are computed from The Wall's index of approved, US-based, machine-verified-live listings, using the index snapshot current when each briefing was published: 2,286 listings at launch (August 3, 2026) and 3,460 in the latest snapshot (captured August 9, 2026). Engagement data (rates, minimum project sizes, team sizes, founding years, ratings) are provider-declared figures published on public Clutch profiles; they were present for 1,517 of the 2,286 launch listings (corrected November 7, 2026: earlier versions counted 221 records whose figures did not come from Clutch, and briefings that used them carry correction notes), and coverage counts for later snapshots are stated inside each briefing that uses them. Percentages of "disclosed" values exclude listings that publish no figure. Nothing in this briefing is estimated or modeled. Sourcing standards: editorial policy.