NAICS 541618 other management consulting services obligations

Residual management advice at $6.4 billion

Other management consulting services is the leftover six-digit class after more specific management-consulting codes are assigned. Residual status still sums to $6,352,040,564.62 on 1,882 awards. Process, physical distribution, and logistics consulting (541614) is a specific neighbor with its own hub; those dollars are not inside 541618.

The mean of about $3.4 million sits between environmental consulting’s ~$648,221 mean and logistics consulting’s ~$3.9 million mean in this extract — useful as a ranking coordinate, not as a billable-hour rate. The packet does not count consultants or hours.

Catch-all management vehicles can include strategy, operations advice, and other professional work the officer declined to tag more tightly. Award descriptions on the industry page carry that mix; this guide does not invent it.

Residual management consulting (541618) holds $6,352,040,564.62 on 1,882 awards, about $3.4 million per award. Logistics consulting (541614), environmental consulting (541620), residual scientific consulting (541690), and CPA offices (541211) each have their own hubs. None of those totals is a subset of 541618. Leftover is a filing label, not “all consulting.”

Professional-services obligations

Management-consulting contracts obligate estimated labor and pay as hours are billed. Unused task orders leave obligated balances unpaid. Treating $6.4 billion as advice already delivered would overstate cash.

The 1,882-award count is not a headcount. One award can cover a large team. Dividing dollars by awards is not a loaded labor rate.

The ~$3.4 million mean is a mean award size, not an hourly rate. Neighboring 541 consulting codes have their own means on their own hubs. The packet has no labor-hour field.

Specific 541 codes are not included

Logistics consulting (541614), environmental consulting (541620), residual scientific consulting (541690), architectural services (541310), advertising agencies (541810), and CPA offices (541211) each have their own pages. None of those totals is a subset of $6,352,040,564.62.

Assistance that funds technical assistance at non-federal recipients often lacks NAICS and does not enter this industry figure.

How to use the 541618 hub

Read $6.4 billion and 1,882 awards as the leftover management-consulting tag, then rank 541 codes on the all-industries index. Open the other management consulting services industry page for rows.

Do not treat residual as “all consulting.” It is one six-digit leftover class.

Catch-all limits

Coding practice can shift similar advisory work among 541618, 541690, and 541614. SpendingVault does not recode those choices. The published sum is the tagged 541618 total.

Extract updates will move $6,352,040,564.62 and 1,882 with USAspending.

How to use a leftover management-consulting hub

Open the other management consulting services industry page and read descriptions before concluding what “management” meant. Catch-all vehicles can include strategy, operations advice, and other professional work the officer declined to tag more tightly.

Rank 541 codes on the all-industries index by dollars and by award count. Cite USAspending.gov. Assistance that funds technical assistance at non-federal recipients often lacks NAICS and stays outside $6.4 billion. Obligations remain distinct from outlays on unused task orders. SpendingVault does not recode leftover management consulting into logistics or environmental classes.

Residual management consulting at $6,352,040,564.62 on 1,882 awards is a leftover 541 class, not “all consulting.” The mean of about $3.4 million is not an hourly rate. Logistics, environmental, scientific-residual, and CPA-office codes have their own hubs.

Open the other management consulting services industry page and read descriptions before concluding what “management” meant on a given award. Cite USAspending.gov. Assistance that funds technical assistance at non-federal recipients often lacks NAICS. SpendingVault does not recode leftover advisory work into a tighter 541 class.

One thousand eight hundred eighty-two leftover management-consulting awards at $6,352,040,564.62 are the residual 541618 book, not a roll-up of every 541 code. Logistics, environmental, scientific-residual, and CPA-office tags have their own pages. Hourly rates are not in the packet. Open the other management consulting services industry page. Cite USAspending.gov. SpendingVault does not recode leftover advice into a tighter class.

The 1,882-award count next to $6,352,040,564.62 is leftover management-consulting thickness. Rank 541618 among 541 codes without rolling neighboring consulting NAICS into this residual total. Those two packet facts — 1,882 awards and $6.4 billion obligated — are the whole quantitative claim this guide is allowed to make.

Questions

What is NAICS 541618 in USAspending?

It is the residual Other Management Consulting Services class. SpendingVault’s aggregate is $6,352,040,564.62 in obligations across 1,882 contract awards. Logistics, environmental, and scientific consulting NAICS codes are separate hubs. The total is obligations, not outlays, and it excludes assistance without NAICS.

What is the average 541618 award?

Dividing $6,352,040,564.62 by 1,882 awards yields about $3.4 million. That mean mixes modest advisory orders with large management vehicles. It is not an hourly rate. The packet does not publish a median or a labor-hour total. Inspect award-level amounts on the industry page rather than treating $3.4 million as an hourly rate.

Is this the same as logistics consulting?

No. Process, physical distribution, and logistics consulting is NAICS 541614. Other management consulting is NAICS 541618. The $6.4 billion here does not include 541614 dollars. Use each industry page for its tagged total. Use the 541614 hub for logistics consulting and this hub for the residual management-consulting tag.

Do technical-assistance grants appear here?

Usually no. Assistance awards often omit NAICS and therefore do not enter $6.4 billion. This aggregate is built from contract awards tagged 541618. Program pages are the better surface for grant-funded advisory work. Program pages remain the better surface for grant-funded advisory work that never received NAICS 541618.