Benchmarks for Small Business

One gap when owning and operating a small business is to get a feel for how you are doing compared to your peers.

The ATO realises the importance of this and have developed a list of benchmarks to help. 

• Air conditioning, refrigeration and heating services
• Alarm systems installation – fire and security
• Architectural services
• Automotive electrical services
• Bakeries and hot bread shops
• Barber and men’s hairdressing
• Beauty services
• Blocklaying services
• Book retailing
• Bottle shops and liquor retailing
• Bricklaying services
• Cabinet makers
• Cake shops and patisseries
• Carpentry services
• Carpet laying services
• Catering services
• Cement rendering
• Chicken shops
• Child care services
• Chiropractic and osteopathic services
• Cleaning services – building and other industrial
• Cleaning services – carpet, rug and furniture upholstery
• Clothing retailing
• Coffee shops
• Computer retailing
• Concreting services
• Confectionery retailing
• Courier services
• Craft shops
• Delicatessen
• Delivery services
• Dental specialists
• Dental surgeons – general
• Discount and variety stores
• Domestic appliance repair and maintenance
• Driving schools and instructors
• Electrical and electronic product retailing
• Electrical services
• Entertainment media retailing
• Fence construction
• Fish and chips shops
• Fish and seafood retailing – fresh
• Floor covering retailing
• Florists
• Footwear retailing
• Fruit and vegetable retailing
• Fuel retailing
• Furniture removalists
• Furniture retailing
• Garden supplies retailing
• Gift stores
• Glazing services
• Grocery retailing and convenience stores
• Hairdressers
• Hardware and building supplies retailing
• Health and fitness centres
• Health food retailing
• Homewares retailing
• Ice cream retailing
• Kebab shops
• Landscape construction
• Laundry and dry-cleaning services
• Lawn mower retailing
• Lawn mowing and garden services
• Machinery and equipment repair and maintenance
• Manchester and other textile goods retailing
• Meat and poultry retailing – fresh
• Motor vehicle parts and batteries retailing
• Motor vehicle retail – new and used
• Musical instruments retail
• Newsagents
• Painting services
• Panel beating and smash repairs
• Pest control services
• Pets and pet supply retailing
• Pharmacy
• Physiotherapy services
• Picture framing retailing
• Pizza shops – takeaway
• Plastering and ceiling services
• Plumbing services
• Printing
• Printing support services
• Pubs, taverns and bars
• Restaurants
• Road freight transport services
• Roofing services – includes roof tiling, guttering and metal roofing
• Sports, camping and fishing retailing
• Sports and physical recreation instruction
• Stationery goods retailing
• Takeaway food services
• Tiling services – floor and wall
• Timber floor sanding
• Tobacco retailing
• Towing services
• Toy and game retailing
• Tutoring and coaching
• Tyre retailing
• Veterinary services
• Watch and jewellery retailing