Standard Rates & Service Policies

Straightforward pricing.
No surprises.

Our standard rates apply to professional services and authorized work outside the scope of fixed-fee or recurring services.

Your Associated Agreement contains the Services and pricing specific to your organization. Where it does not state otherwise, these Standard Rates & Service Policies apply.

Effective: September 2026 Last Updated: September 2026 View Master Services Agreement →
Engineer
$175 / hour
Implementation, support, troubleshooting, and standard technical work.
Senior Engineer
$250 / hour
Advanced engineering, migrations, escalations, and complex implementation.
Principal Architect
$375 / hour
Architecture, discovery, solution design, complex scoping, and senior technical leadership.
Outside Normal Service Hours

After-Hours & Emergency Services

Unless your Associated Agreement states otherwise, work requested outside Modern IT’s normal service hours is billed using the following multipliers applied to the applicable standard role rate.

1.5×
Monday–Friday, 5:00 PM–12:00 AM, and all day Saturday
12:00 AM–8:00 AM, Sundays, and recognized holidays
4-hour minimum
Emergency after-hours call-ins, when available

After-hours Services are subject to resource availability and Customer authorization. Modern IT may decline non-emergency after-hours work where appropriate staffing is unavailable or the work would create unreasonable operational or security risk.

Service Policies

What to expect when work falls outside your recurring scope

Billable Service Time

Billable time includes time reasonably spent performing authorized work that is not included within a fixed-fee or recurring Service, whether remote or onsite. This may include preparation, troubleshooting, vendor coordination, documentation, change implementation, testing, telephone or manufacturer support, and Customer-caused waiting time or access delays.

Travel & Expenses

Unless your Associated Agreement states otherwise, travel time to and from Modern IT’s La Verne, California office for Customer-specific onsite work is billable at the applicable role rate. Customer is responsible for reasonable Customer-specific tolls, parking, shipping, freight, and other direct travel expenses. Airfare, lodging, meals, and other overnight travel expenses will be agreed as applicable.

Scheduled Work & Cancellations

Customer should provide reasonable advance notice when rescheduling onsite work, workshops, project sessions, or other reserved resources. Customer-caused delays, access restrictions, unavailable personnel, missed appointments, or other circumstances that prevent Modern IT from performing scheduled work may be billable at the applicable rate.

Projects & Out-of-Scope Requests

Projects, changes, and requests outside Customer’s recurring scope may be quoted separately or performed at the applicable standard rate with Customer authorization. Material scope changes may require a written change order and may affect schedule and cost.

Microsoft, Cloud & Software Subscriptions

Subscription pricing follows the publisher and the commitment you authorize.

Microsoft 365, Azure, cloud services, SaaS subscriptions, and other third-party products are priced according to the applicable publisher, distributor, subscription term, and Customer order.

Billing frequency does not necessarily equal commitment term. A subscription billed monthly may still carry an annual, multi-year, or other minimum financial commitment.

Subscription commitments, renewals, cancellation rights, transfers, Microsoft CSP/NCE obligations, and publisher-driven price changes are governed by the Master Services Agreement.

Read Microsoft & Cloud Subscription Terms →

Rate Changes

Modern IT may update its standard service rates in accordance with the applicable Master Services Agreement and Associated Agreement. Publisher, distributor, tax, telecommunications, shipping, marketplace, cloud-consumption, licensing, currency, and other third-party price changes may be passed through when effective and are not considered a Modern IT-initiated service-rate increase.

How Our Agreements Work Together

Clear order. Clear expectations.

01 — ASSOCIATED AGREEMENT
Defines the Services, commitments, and pricing specific to your organization.
02 — MASTER SERVICES AGREEMENT
Establishes the legal, operational, security, subscription, data, and payment framework governing the relationship.
03 — STANDARD RATES & SERVICE POLICIES
Provides standard pricing and service policies where the Associated Agreement is silent.

If these documents conflict, the Associated Agreement controls over the Master Services Agreement, and the Master Services Agreement controls over these Standard Rates & Service Policies.

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