The Trade Economy Index · 2026 Edition

Where does your shop stand?

The index is the scoreboard for the whole trade. This is the same question one level down: where does your shop sit on it? Pick your trade, answer four plain questions, and see where each one lands against the retained source references. Their populations differ; the result is a prompt for checking your financial records. Not sure on one? Identify the records needed to answer it.

Four questions in plain numbers you already carry in your head. Answer one and we show you where your selected band compares with the retained references. Revenue uses a firmographic sample; job margin uses the blended Level contractor benchmark; net margin and recurring share use different trade-source populations. This is a comparison prompt, not a matched-peer diagnosis.

1/4Roughly what is your annual revenue?
Ballpark is fine.

Benchmarks are drawn from Level CFO’s aggregate contractor operating dataset and public labor and market data. Eligible sample sizes for the blended Level metrics are disclosed on the data page; those counts do not apply to every trade-source figure. Aggregate-only; no individual company is identified. Your selections stay in this page's local state and are not submitted as a lead record.

Built by Level CFO, the finance team for contractors and service businesses. The published metric populations and definitions, rather than a combined marketing count, establish the scope of each benchmark.