Make smarter rate decisions with interactive market intelligence
Program teams make rate decisions in a constantly changing environment—where market conditions, rate cards, and role definitions evolve quickly. Without reliable benchmarks, it’s difficult to know whether your bill rates are aligned with the market.
Rate Intelligence in Beeline Analytics gives Program Management Office (PMO) users an interactive, visual way to compare contingent labor rates to the market. Instead of relying on static reports or outdated rate cards, you can explore your market rates, assess the quality of your taxonomy, and take action using real, current market benchmarks.
With one analytics experience, you can move from guessing to knowing—understanding how your rates align with the market, where gaps exist, and what actions to prioritize.
Why it matters
Rate Intelligence delivers clear, data-driven benchmarks to keep rate cards up to date, roles aligned, and decisions grounded in real market conditions. Rate Intelligence helps you take control with clear, data-driven insights.
- Identify when assignment rates drift above or below market
- Validate whether your bill rate strategy aligns with business goals
- Detect outdated rate cards before they impact cost or hiring
- Improve your ability to attract and retain contingent talent
- Increase consistency in job titles, levels, and benchmarking
- Replace guesswork with real, current market data
Who it’s for
Access to Beeline Analytics is limited to Program Management Office (PMO) users responsible for workforce programs and overseeing contingent workforce performance.
How it helps
- Explore your program data through an interactive analytics dashboard
- See how assignment rates compare to market at a glance (above, below, within)
- Understand how much of your data is benchmark-ready and where gaps exist
- Drill into roles, suppliers, locations, and cost centers to identify issues
- Detect outliers and prioritize high-impact opportunities
- Analyze market bill rate trends across roles, levels, industries, and locations
- Make confident decisions using real, recent market data
- Trust insights backed by sufficient, high-quality data
How it works
Rate Intelligence guides you through three connected dashboard pages that help you assess, compare, and act.
| Dashboard area | What you do | Questions you can answer | What it means for you |
|---|---|---|---|
| Market rate exploration | Analyze market bill rates, ranges, and trends across roles, levels, locations, and time |
| Understand market dynamics and plan future workforce strategy |
| Market alignment | Compare assignment rates to market benchmarks and analyze results by job title, supplier, location, or cost center |
| Identify overspend or risk areas and validate your rate strategy |
| Data quality assessment | Evaluate how much of your program can be benchmarked by reviewing assignment eligibility, job title classification, level usage, and data completeness |
| Increase benchmark coverage and improve insight accuracy |
Why you can trust the data
Rate Intelligence is built on real, high-quality market data so you can make decisions with confidence.
- Uses real bill rates, not advertised or estimated ranges
- Includes only data from the last 12 months to reflect current market conditions
- Applies strict thresholds before showing benchmarks to ensure reliability
- Aggregates data across multiple companies to protect privacy and improve accuracy
- Draws from transactions across the ~250 companies and ~250,000 rate records for strong market representation
- Covers the United States, Canada, and India, with ongoing global expansion
Action steps
Use Rate Intelligence to validate your data quality first. Start with the Data Quality Assessment page. Improving job titles, levels, and location data increases how much of your program you can benchmark—and improves every insight downstream.
- Ensure you have:
- Standardized job titles and levels
- Valid location and rate data
- Available as a premium feature in Beeline Analytics for Contingent Staffing data only
- Contact your Relationship Manager to learn more or purchase
- Your COM will enable the dashboard in Beeline Analytics in your Enterprise VMS
How to steps
Information in this article reflects a standard Enterprise configuration. Your Enterprise platform is based on your organization’s configuration. Settings and/or data visibility rules may vary slightly from what is described.
To accomplish your task, complete these steps from your Enterprise dashboard.
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Open Beeline Analytics
- Navigate to the Rate Intelligence dashboard
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Review data quality
- Check how many assignments are benchmark-ready
- Identify gaps in job titles, levels, or locations
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Evaluate market alignment
- Review where rates are above, within, or below market
- Use filters to analyze by role, supplier, location, or business unit
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Explore market trends
- Select job roles to view market benchmarks
- Compare rates by level, location, and time
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Take action
- Adjust rates or refresh rate cards
- Improve data quality and taxonomy
- Align your strategy with market insights
| Persona Program office users | Modules Beeline Analytics | Documentation release Beeline Enterprise | Q2 2026 | Feedback? Email us: |