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title: "Professional Services Payment Practices: 5-Year Analysis (2020-2025)"
date: 2025-11-13T00:00:00+00:00
url: https://paymentcheck.co.uk/blog/reports/professional-services-payment-practices-2020-2025-analysis
description: "Professional Services Payment Practices: 5-Year Analysis (2020-2025) - Payment practices analysis from PaymentCheck"
category: "Reports"
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# Professional Services Payment Practices: 5-Year Analysis (2020-2025)

# Professional Services Payment Practices See Minor Improvement: 70.1/100 in 2020 to 74.5/100 in 2025

## The Comparison

Here's a look at payment practice data for the professional services sector:

*   **2020:** Analysis of 172 companies yielded an average payment score of 70.1 out of 100.
*   **2025:** An assessment of 140 companies revealed a modest improvement, with the average payment score reaching 74.5 out of 100.

## What This Means

The professional services sector has witnessed a relatively small uptick in payment performance over five years. A gain of just 4.4 points suggests incremental improvements rather than a significant overhaul in payment behaviors, perhaps linked to wider economic factors that affect how businesses make and receive payments, or gradual adoption of digital systems. Businesses can use a [late payment calculator](/free-late-invoice-calculator) to understand the actual financial impact of those remaining late payments.

Overall, professional services firms showed a slight positive change in payment practices, moving from an average score of 70.1 in 2020 to 74.5 in 2025.