Industry guide
Security Guard Services contract price increases
A pass-through of a mandated wage increase plus the markup the clause actually states, sometimes beside a CPI adjustment of the bill rate. The billing systems this work collides with: the scheduling system and QuickBooks. NAICS 561612.
Security is billed by the hour. When a state or city minimum wage moves, the post still has to be filled, and the officer's wage moves on the effective date whether or not the bill rate does. The clause is the only thing that says whether the bill rate moves with it, by how much, and how much notice the customer gets. A one-dollar wage increase is not automatically a one-dollar bill increase. The contract's formula decides.
The bill rate lives on the site card. Payroll can be updated for the new wage on Monday while the invoice on Friday still uses Friday's old rate. Those two systems do not reconcile themselves. The gap is the officer-hours in between.
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 hourly bill rate. States without a 2026 wage step say so, instead of inventing one.