Robert Half (RHI) Earnings: Q3 2026 Results and Next Report Date

The quarter ended September 30, 2026 and Robert Half published the results on October 22, 2026. Revenue and diluted EPS are shown against Q3 2025, the same quarter a year earlier, which takes seasonal swings out of the comparison.

• Robert Half reports in thousands; figures here are in millions. It reports GAAP EPS only.
• Contract talent revenue by functional specialization includes work Robert Half's contract talent does for its own Protiviti segment (blended business solutions). That intersegment revenue is eliminated in one line.

Source: Robert Half Q3 2026 results, October 22, 2026. Also in the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2026. Figures as reported; checked against the release on November 10, 2026.

How Robert Half splits revenue in its own release, under its own labels, for Q3 2026 against Q3 2025. Indented lines are parts of the line above them.

• Robert Half's Contract talent solutions revenue was $759 million in Q3 2026, up 2% from $746 million in Q3 2025, 56% of total revenue.
• Robert Half's Permanent placement talent solutions revenue was $117 million in Q3 2026, up 6% from $110 million in Q3 2025, 9% of total revenue.
• Robert Half's Protiviti revenue was $484 million in Q3 2026, down 3% from $498 million in Q3 2025, 36% of total revenue.

Segment lines are the figures writers cite most often, because they show where the growth in a quarter came from. Companies redraw their segments from time to time and restate the prior year to match, so a year-ago figure here can differ from the one printed a year ago. When that has happened, the note above says so.

Revenue and diluted EPS for the last 5 quarters. Each date links to that quarter's release.

GAAP service revenues and diluted net income per share, each as first reported in that quarter's release.

Robert Half's next report is expected around January 28, 2027, a date estimated from its reporting history that the company has not yet confirmed. This page will show Q3 2026 until those results are out and have been checked against the release.

Each quarter keeps its own page with the figures as reported, so a link to one stays pointed at the same numbers after the next report.

• Q3 2026 (this page), reported Oct 22, 2026

Robert Half reported service revenues of $1,359.3 million in Q3 2026, against $1,354.5 million a year earlier. Contract talent solutions brought in $758.8 million, permanent placement talent solutions $116.9 million and Protiviti, its consulting subsidiary, $483.5 million. (Robert Half Q3 2026 release, Oct 22, 2026)

Contract talent revenue rose 1.7%, which Robert Half put down mainly to a 2.5% increase in average bill rates, offset by a 1.0% decrease in hours worked by its engagement professionals. Finance and accounting is the largest specialization at $565.6 million; technology rose to $165.1 million and administrative and customer support fell to $154.4 million. (Robert Half Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 30, 2026; Robert Half Q3 2026 release, Oct 22, 2026)

Permanent placement revenue rose 6.2% on a 5.3% increase in average fees per placement and a 0.9% increase in the number of placements. Fees are generally a percentage of the new employee's annual compensation, and Robert Half notes that permanent placement demand is even more sensitive to economic and labor market conditions than contract work. (Robert Half Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 30, 2026)

Protiviti revenues fell 2.9% because billable hours dropped 10.4%, partly offset by a 7.5% increase in average hourly bill rates. Protiviti works on a time-and-material, fixed-fee or unit basis, and had offices in the U.S. and 13 other countries at the end of 2025. (Robert Half Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 30, 2026; Robert Half Form 10-K, 2025, Feb 13, 2026)

U.S. operations accounted for 77.5% of revenue and international operations for $306 million, or 22.5%. On an adjusted basis, which removes billing-day and currency effects, total revenue fell 0.2% while total talent solutions grew 1.6%, the first adjusted year-over-year growth for talent solutions since 2022 by the CEO's account. (Robert Half Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 30, 2026; Robert Half Q3 2026 release, Oct 22, 2026)

Robert Half reports GAAP EPS only: diluted net income per share was $0.49 in Q3 2026, against $0.43. Operating income rose to $74.8 million from $13.6 million, but much of that swing is the accounting for employee deferred compensation trusts. Trust gains and losses are shown below operating income while the matching change in the obligation sits in costs and SG&A, so they leave net income unchanged. (Robert Half Q3 2026 release, Oct 22, 2026; Robert Half Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 30, 2026)

On Robert Half's adjusted basis, which moves trust results back beside the related costs, operating income was $72.6 million against $61.2 million, a margin of 5.3% against 4.5%. The provision for income taxes was 33.2% of pretax income, against 32.6%, which the 10-Q attributes primarily to lower tax credits. (Robert Half Q3 2026 release, Oct 22, 2026; Robert Half Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 30, 2026)

Diluted weighted average shares were 100,940 thousand, against 100,041 thousand. Robert Half bought back only 858 shares in the quarter, all tendered by employees under stock plans, and declared a dividend of $0.59 per share. Over nine months it paid $179.8 million of dividends and spent $6.8 million on repurchases. (Robert Half Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 30, 2026; Robert Half Q3 2026 release, Oct 22, 2026)

Diluted EPS divides net income by the weighted average number of shares outstanding in the quarter, plus the shares that options and other equity awards could add. Buybacks shrink that count and lift EPS for the same profit; share issuance and stock awards enlarge it.

Robert Half's earnings release contains no outlook. It gives quarterly guidance in the prepared remarks for its conference call, which it posts in the Investor Center of its website, and the CEO said in the release that third-quarter global enterprise earnings exceeded the midpoint of that guidance. (Robert Half Q3 2026 release, Oct 22, 2026)

The release adds that because long-term contracts are not a significant part of Robert Half's business, future results cannot be reliably predicted from past trends. (Robert Half Q3 2026 release, Oct 22, 2026)

A consensus figure is the average of the models published by the analysts who cover Robert Half, collected by a data provider and revised up to the day of the report. A quarter that lands above it says how expectations were set as much as how the business did, and the share price on the day also reflects the guidance and the lines no consensus covers.

The consensus figures on this page are Yahoo Finance's, as pulled on the date shown. Each comes with the number of analysts behind it; the smaller that number, the more one revised estimate can move the average.

The figures below are the ones Robert Half's own release and filings put weight on for Q3 2026, with the latest reported value for each.

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• The quarterly report (Form 10-Q) follows within a few weeks and carries the full financial statements, the segment note and management's discussion of what changed. The fourth quarter is covered by the annual report (Form 10-K) instead.
• Restated comparisons are flagged in the notes on this page. When a company redraws its segments or changes how it adjusts EPS, it restates the year-ago column, so the year-ago figure in a new release can differ from the one printed a year ago. This page always uses the comparison in the newer release, because that is the like-for-like one.

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