Business Costs Trends and
Benchmarking Data


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DOL’s statistics on business costs.
Most frequently requested DOL employment cost trends.
Employment-related cost trends (IFEBP).
Employment-related cost trends (IBI).
Hospital costs trends.
Construction project and land costs trends.
Costs and supply management trends.
Supply chain cost trends.
Costs and benchmarking in purchasing.
Trends in company general costs.
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Employment cost trends from DOL.
Benchmarking data – IT costs.
Management Accounting Information Center

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Trends in labor cost per unit of output.
Cost data trends for various cities, US and other.
The links on this page are intended to take you to websites where you can gain access to business costs trend data.  Data at these sites generally have been aggregated, averaged, or in someway, compiled or assembled to give trends in costs for whatever activity the data represents.  Included in the concept of trends are cost comparisons and benchmarking cost data. The cost data information from these sites should be useful for looking at costs over a period of time to show trends, and comparing one's own cost trends against data found at these sites.
A Management Accounting Information Center article “Cost-Related Information Relevant to Management Accounting on the Internet” attempts to help those involved in cost management, accounting, and decision-making use the Internet for needed information. Please click the home logo at the top left of this page to access this article.
Cost trends.
Benchmarking costs.

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  A Yahoo Pipes Search Product
  US Government Press Releases
With Cost and Price Information


This Yahoo Pipes product sends the press releases and other feeds from more than 20 departments and agencies of the US Government down a Yahoo Pipe.  Then, using Yahoo Pipes technology, this pipe of feeds is filtered for only feeds released in the last 60 days.  Finally, the pipe of feeds is filtered to extract from the feeds, any information that the government is providing on costs and prices.

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Internal, outsourced, and inventory carrying benchmark costs in Canadian industry sectors.
Railroad cost trends.
A Management Accounting Information Center article “Finding Cost Data on the Internet (2008)” identifies ways in which the Internet can be a source of cost data for businesses.  Please click the home logo at the top left of this page to access this article.