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Make better marketing decisions with clearer numbers

Use our marketing calculators to compare your spend, uncover the hidden cost of DIY marketing, and make clearer decisions about where your time and budget should go.

Marketing spend benchmark

What should I be spending on marketing?

Most businesses guess. Your industry already has a range.

*outputs are estimated on your inputs

$2M/yr

Estimated marketing spend of

$100k – $140k

a year for your industry at your scale

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How this is worked out. Annual revenue multiplied by the low and high ends of a working benchmark range for your industry. These are planning benchmarks, not audited averages, and where no Australian industry-specific figure exists the range is a documented proxy. Every figure and where it comes from is listed in full on the sources page. Sourced 19 August 2026; benchmarks change.

The cost of doing it yourself

What is DIY costing you?

Most businesses have never added it up.

*outputs are estimated on your inputs

$6,000/mth
$120/hr
30/mth

Costing you each month

$9,600

Your own time and marketing spend, costed

Hours back26
Over a year$115,200

Based on this, Growth is the right fit.

Agency vs In-house

Should I take my marketing in-house?

$6,000/mth
Services provided

Current agency spend

$72,000/yr
In-house cost $113,976/yr
Typical agency spend$5,000/mth

Might be worth staying with your agency.

*Disclaimer: The working, every source and the full assumptions are on the sources page. Figures current as at 25 August 2026; superannuation rates and salary benchmarks change. General information, not financial, workplace-relations or tax advice.

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