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BizBuySell Insight Report
Quarterly transaction data for the small-business M&A market. Covers 70+ US markets and 65+ industries with median sale prices, SDE multiples, revenue multiples, and closed transaction counts. The only freely published dataset tracking lower-middle-market deal activity at scale.
BLS Employment Projections — Occupational Matrix
10-year US employment projections by occupation. Provides current employment, projected employment, numeric/percent change, annual openings, and worker characteristics (typical entry education, work experience required, on-the-job training). Companion to the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook. Released biennially.
BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics
Detailed wages and employment for 800+ US occupations, including 10th/25th/50th/75th/90th percentile wages, total employment, and historical wage trajectories. Data published annually each May since 1999.
BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages
Quarterly employment counts and wage data at county level by 6-digit NAICS, derived from unemployment insurance records. Covers ~97% of all US jobs going back to 1975. The most granular publicly available employment dataset — updated quarterly with a 5-month lag.
Census Business Dynamics Statistics
Annual counts of firm births, firm deaths, job creation, and job destruction by NAICS sector, state, MSA, and county — going back to 1978. The definitive dataset for understanding business formation, failure rates, and employment churn across industries and geographies.
Census County Business Patterns
Annual establishment counts, employment, and payroll by 6-digit NAICS code down to ZIP code level. Covers every employer establishment in the US — the best source for market-sizing by industry and geography at a granular level.
Census Statistics of US Businesses
Annual data on the number of businesses, employment, and annual payroll by firm size (employee count brackets) and industry. Published by the US Census Bureau and covers all employer firms in the US. Definitive source for sizing the LMM universe — shows exactly how many businesses fall in the 20–499 employee range that approximates $1M–$100M revenue.
NYU Stern Damodaran Dataset
Industry-level valuation multiples, margins, betas, cost of capital, growth, and leverage for US public companies across 94 industries. Now ingested as 15 separate datasets across 5 metric families (multiples, fundamentals, cost of capital, growth, leverage) plus a 5-year historical archive (2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2023) for the key headline metrics. Updated every January — the gold standard reference for public-market comparable transactions.
FRED Economic Data
840,000+ economic time series from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. 30 key series cached locally for LMM acquirers: deal financing (Fed Funds, Prime, 10Y, 30Y mortgage, T-bills), credit cycle (SLOOS lending standards, C&I loans, charge-off rates, HY spread, FCI, stress index), inflation & cost (CPI, PPI, oil), labor (unemployment, payrolls, JOLTS, claims, wages), sectors (housing starts, permits, industrial production, retail sales, capacity utilization), and macro (GDP, M2, sentiment).
IRS Statistics of Income — S-Corp Returns
Aggregate financial data for all S-Corporation tax returns filed in the US, broken down by size of business receipts (revenue bands) and by industry (NAICS). The single richest public source of financial benchmarks for private small-and-medium businesses — covers revenues, deductions, net income, total assets, and liabilities for ~4.8M S-Corps annually.
SBA FOIA Loan Data
Loan-level records for every SBA 7(a) and 504 loan approved since 1991. Covers approval amounts, borrower NAICS codes, lender names, geographic coordinates, loan terms, and SBA guarantee percentages. Updated quarterly — typically one month after quarter end.
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