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My favorite benchmarking reports

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CJ Gustafson
Sep 5, 2023
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Me explaining my benchmarking comp set to my CEO

As a child I collected baseball cards. As an adult, I now collect benchmarking reports.

Do yourself a favor and bookmark this list in your Chrome browser (or Microsoft Edge browser, if you’re a complete psychopath) for ease of reference. It will be especially helpful during annual planning season when you’ll need to sanity check:

  1. Revenue Growth

  2. Productivity

  3. Profitability

Speaking of planning, this Thursday we’ll be releasing Part 4 of our 5 part series on Annual Planning. Here are the first 3:

Your Complete Guide to Annual Planning (Part 1): The Kickoff

Your Complete Guide to Annual Planning (Part 1): The Kickoff

Aug 17
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Your Complete Guide to Annual Planning (Part 2): Building Sales Capacity

Your Complete Guide to Annual Planning (Part 2): Building Sales Capacity

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Your Complete Guide to Annual Planning (Part 3): Marketing Budget

Your Complete Guide to Annual Planning (Part 3): Marketing Budget

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You can get access to the complete series and templates by upgrading to paid here:


Operational Benchmarks:

  • SaaS Benchmarks Report by OpenView (2022 results)

    • Financial and Operating Benchmarks Report by OpenView (2021 results)

    • Expansion SaaS Benchmarks by OpenView (2020 results)

    • Expansion SaaS Benchmarks by OpenView (2019 results)

  • SaaS Benchmarking Report by Chart Mogul (2023)

  • B2B SaaS Benchmarks Report by Benchmarkit (Q2 of 2023)

  • Topline Growth & Operational Efficiency by ICONIQ (As of September of 2022)

  • The Cloud 100 Benchmarks by Bessemer (2022 results)

    • Scaling to $100M by Bessemer (As of September of 2021)

    • The BVP Nasdaq Emerging Cloud Index by Bessemer (As of 2023)

  • Public SaaS Comparables by Meritech (As of 2023)

  • KBCM Private Company SaaS Survey by Keybanc (2022 results)

    • KBCM Private Company SaaS Survey by Keybanc (2021 results)

    • KBCM Private Company SaaS Survey by Keybanc (COVID) (2020 results)

    • KBCM Private Company SaaS Survey by Keybanc (2019 results)

    • KBCM Private Company SaaS Survey by Keybanc (2018 results)

    • KBCM Private Company SaaS Survey by Keybanc (2017 results)

    • Pacific Crest Private SaaS Company Survey by Pacific Crest (2016 results)

    • Pacific Crest Private SaaS Company Survey by Pacific Crest (2015 results)

    • Pacific Crest Private SaaS Company Survey by Pacific Crest (2014 results)

Procurement Benchmarks:

  • The SaaS Trends Report by Vendr (As of Q1 of 2023)

Talent and Compensation Benchmarks:

  • State of SaaS Talent by OpenView (As of 2023)

  • The Definitive Guide to Sales Compensation by ICONIQ (As of May 2023)

  • The SaaS Org Chart by David Sacks (As of July 2021)

  • Revenue per Employee Benchmarking by SaaS Capital (As of November 2021)

  • Employee equity benchmarking for startups by Index Ventures (As of 2022)


The “Run the Numbers” Podcast

If you’ve been granted equity in the company you work for, do yourself a big favor and listen to this episode. A couple of items we touched on:

  • Why employees should cash in on secondary transactions

  • How to ask your CFO about your equity

  • When someone once tried to expense a chainsaw (no, seriously)

Episode 2 with Ivan Makarov of Webflow live on:

  • Spotify

  • Apple

  • YouTube


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Sid Jain
Sep 6Liked by CJ Gustafson

Thanks for sharing, CJ

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Rich Holmes
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Sep 5Liked by CJ Gustafson

I was just starting a report on R&D budgets and some of these benchmarks are super useful - thanks for sharing!

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