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Upwork (UPWK) Return on Sales (2017 - 2025)

Upwork has reported Return on Sales over the past 9 years, most recently at 0.08% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Sales at 0.08% for Q4 2025, down 69.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.15% (down 13.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.15%, down 13.0%.
  • Return on Sales for Q4 2025 was 0.08% at Upwork, down from 0.15% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Sales for UPWK hit a ceiling of 0.77% in Q4 2024 and a floor of 0.18% in Q1 2022.
  • Median Return on Sales over the past 5 years was 0.09% (2023), compared with a mean of 0.05%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Sales: skyrocketed 67bps in 2024 and later plummeted -69bps in 2025.
  • Upwork's Return on Sales stood at 0.16% in 2021, then surged by 38bps to 0.1% in 2022, then surged by 192bps to 0.09% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 713bps to 0.77% in 2024, then crashed by -90bps to 0.08% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Sales were 0.08% (Q4 2025), 0.15% (Q3 2025), and 0.17% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.