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

 Source: ato.gov.au