Editorial Process
PlainBizBench aggregates public IRS, Census, and SBA datasets through a documented, repeatable pipeline. Our editorial process writes the plain-language guides and methodology and is accountable for how the data is framed and corrected, not for hand-checking every one of the millions of underlying figures. These are the people behind that work.
Download the industry benchmark extract cited on this page: plainbizbench-industry-benchmarks.csv (IRS SOI + Census CBP · CC0).
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PlainBizBench is a data journalism portal that turns public government datasets, IRS Statistics of Income, Census County Business Patterns, and SBA lending data, into plain-language industry financial benchmarks. The editorial process writes the guides and methodology and is accountable for how the data is framed and corrected. To maintain editorial independence, the team does not accept payment from the businesses or industries it covers.
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PlainBizBench is a data-journalism publisher: we compile public datasets, verify them against their official sources, and present them in plain language. Editorial standards, sourcing, and how we handle corrections are described on our about and methodology pages.