Industry guide
Facilities Management contract price increases
CPI or the Employment Cost Index, almost always with a floor and a cap. The billing systems this work collides with: the FM agreement and the customer's AP portal.
A facilities management fee is larger, and the clause is usually more careful: a named index, a floor, a cap, and a notice. The fee is not the same thing as the pass-through of a subcontracted repair. Mixing them double-counts. Employment Cost Index clauses are not CPI clauses. ECI is quarterly, has its own base, and is the wrong series to paste a CPI percent into.
The management fee is often a standing monthly line that accounts payable approves by habit. Changing it requires the calculation, the cap check, and a notice the portal will accept. If any of the three is missing, the line stays at last year's amount by default.
Clause guides
- Annual price escalator — a fixed percentage added once each contract year, usually on the anniversary
- CPI adjustment clause — an adjustment tied to a named Consumer Price Index series and two named months
- Auto-renewal price increase — a price change that takes effect because the contract renewed, not because someone sent a separate amendment
- Wage pass-through clause — a right to pass a mandated wage increase through to the customer, on the formula and the notice the clause states
- Price increase notice period — the number of days of written notice required before an increase is allowed to hit an invoice
- Escalation cap and floor — a collar around an index adjustment: a maximum increase, a minimum increase, or both
By state
Each state page carries the 2026 minimum-wage position and the BLS metros, then applies them to a fictional monthly management fee. States without a 2026 wage step say so, instead of inventing one.