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Employee Wages as a Percentage of Total Income Benchmark Calculation

What is ‘Employee Wages as a Percentage of Total Income’?

What is ‘Employee Wages as a Percentage of Total Income’? Home Articles Reviewing employee wages is a crucial activity for any business owner. When monitoring and evaluating employee wages, the owner’s wage should be excluded. Employee wages also excludes all superannuation and bonuses. Total income refers to the total revenue (being sales and other income) [...]

Financial Benchmarking Against Your Competitors

Competition in business can be challenging, but it also drives innovation and growth. The secret to thriving in a competitive market lies in understanding your competitors and using that knowledge to refine your strategies. This is where competitor benchmarking becomes invaluable. Competitor benchmarking is the process of systematically comparing your business to others in the [...]

Revenue Per Employee Benchmark Calculation

How it’s calculated Revenue Per Employee is calculated as: Revenue Per Employee = Total Revenue / Total Full Time Equivalent Employee See here for explanation of Full Time Equivalent Benchmark Calculation How it’s used Revenue per employee is an important financial benchmark because it aids in determining the relative average financial [...]

How to calculate FTE (Full Time Equivalent)

CALCULATE FTEs NOW - Jump to our FTE Calculator What's an 'FTE'? Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) is the measurement of how many full-time and part-time employees a company has. It is NOT headcount. Some people in your business may have only worked for part of the year, or are on part-time/casual arrangements. In these cases, the [...]

The Meaning of a Benchmark

A benchmark is often considered as the optimum performance to be strived for, or, the average performance which is either outperformed or fallen short of. The meaning of a benchmark, in a nutshell, is a reference point or a standard which something can be measured against. In the context of business, there are many benchmarks, [...]

5 Reasons For Benchmarking A Business

Top 5 Reasons For Benchmarking A Business Do you know how your business is performing when stacked up against competitors? How about your clients? Do you know what they need to do to improve their business performance? Do you know where the business is excelling? How it could improve? And what needs to be implemented [...]

The what and how of Benchmarking

The process for obtaining a measure – a benchmark: Simply stated, benchmarks are the “what,” and benchmarking is the “how,” of the process. Benchmarking without the right tools is not a simple process. Before undertaking a benchmarking opportunity, it is important to have a thorough understanding of the company’s guidelines around data and communications. You [...]

The Benefits of Benchmarking

Research clearly shows successful businesses aren’t afraid to compare themselves to their competitors and ask the hard questions. Businesses that do not make competitive comparison, furthermore, tend to be over optimistic about their relative position, preventing them from making realistic and fruitful changes. Hard data provided by benchmarking.com.au takes the guess work out of assessing [...]

Before you buy a business

Benchmarking is an essential resource if you are thinking about buying a business. The best starting point is to obtain a copy of the Australian Benchmark Report for the industry or sector your looking at buying into. It can help you to measure the past performance of a business to see how it performed against [...]