Operating Benchmarks
An annual reference describing the operating economics of a defined US industry peer set — how it earns its margin, how it uses labor, how much capital it ties up, and how its costs are structured — with a current-conditions overlay covering the months after the structural year. Each edition applies a fixed analytical framework — four metric families: margin behavior, labor economics, capital efficiency, and cost structure — to observed operating data drawn from federal sources. Metrics are presented as distributions across the peer set with explicit interpretation boundaries.
Industry Structure Reference
A descriptive reference on the structural condition of US industries, anchored to the U.S. Economic Census. First Editions are available across the published industries. Each edition serves across the five-year census cycle. The reference describes industry structure across seven-to-ten dimensions: how many firms and establishments exist and how the population is composed; how firms and establishments are distributed by size; how concentrated ownership of activity is; how the establishment population enters and exits; where activity is located; how the population is composed by legal form; and how labour is structured. Each dimension is presented as a distribution across the peer set, not a single average.
Add-On Density Atlas
The Add-On Density Atlas maps where the universe of establishments in each peer-set NAICS code sits across the United States, and how that footprint has drifted over the trailing five years (with a three-year window added for industries where recent movement diverges from the longer trend). It is the spatial complement to the Operating Benchmarks (which describe the distribution of operating outcomes) and the Industry Structure Reference (which describes the structural context). Together the three modules answer how a peer set performs, how it is structured, and where it is.
