Growth Metrics

Upwork (UPWK) Operating Margin (2017 - 2025)

Upwork has reported Operating Margin over the past 9 years, most recently at 14.26% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Operating Margin at 14.26% for Q4 2025, up 717.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 16.41% (up 794.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 16.41%, up 794.0%.
  • Operating Margin for Q4 2025 was 14.26% at Upwork, down from 14.75% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Operating Margin for UPWK hit a ceiling of 20.08% in Q1 2025 and a floor of 16.73% in Q1 2022.
  • Median Operating Margin over the past 5 years was 0.48% (2023), compared with a mean of 0.55%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Operating Margin: tumbled -1655bps in 2021 and later surged 2256bps in 2023.
  • Upwork's Operating Margin stood at 15.93% in 2021, then rose by 20bps to 12.69% in 2022, then soared by 136bps to 4.58% in 2023, then soared by 55bps to 7.09% in 2024, then skyrocketed by 101bps to 14.26% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Operating Margin were 14.26% (Q4 2025), 14.75% (Q3 2025), and 16.71% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.