How much is a business worth with $1,000,000 in sales?
General information, not financial, tax or legal advice. A licensed valuer or your accountant can value the business itself.
Businesses with about $1 million in yearly sales are listed on Signetry at $245,000 to $575,000, with a middle of about $385,000. That range comes from 146 listings and is what sellers ask, not what buyers pay. Profit moves the price more than sales do.
A business with $1,000,000 in yearly sales is listed at
$245,000 to $575,000
Middle of the range: $385,000. That is 0.25x to 0.57x yearly sales.
Rests on 146 listings with sales of $700,000 to $1,400,000. Asking prices, not sale prices.
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How much is a business worth with $500,000, $1m or $5m in sales?
| Yearly sales | Listed at | Middle | Of sales | Listings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $500,000 | $140,000 to $350,000 | $215,000 | 0.28x to 0.70x | 88 |
| $1,000,000 | $245,000 to $575,000 | $385,000 | 0.25x to 0.57x | 146 |
| $5,000,000 | $1,190,000 to $2,685,000 | $1,735,000 | 0.24x to 0.54x | 44 |
Each row uses listings with sales from 70% to 140% of its figure. The bigger the business, the more the price rests on profit, and the fewer the listings.
How many times revenue is a business worth?
Usually well under once. Across 509 listings, the middle half are asking 0.26x to 0.63x yearly sales, and the median is 0.40x. Small businesses are priced on profit, and profit is a slice of sales.
Too few for a range of their own (fewer than 20): Education and childcare (7), Agriculture (3), Ecommerce (3), Software and online (1). These industries are in the all-industries row. Accommodation is left out, as on the calculator: motels are priced on the lease, rooms and yield.
How many times earnings is a business worth?
By the calculator's own rule, businesses on Signetry are listed at 1.6x to 3.0x yearly profit (median 2.1x), from 232 listings that state a price and a profit, motels excluded. That is the number sellers price on, and the one to start from.
Use the business valuation calculator to turn your own yearly profit into a range, industry by industry, with stock added and every source named. The published Australian figure for most businesses under $5m is one to three times profit, per EEA Advisory (read on its page for the calculator, 6 Oct 2026).
Read these before you rely on it
- These are asking prices, not sale prices. No Australian source we have read publishes what businesses actually sell for, so we do not guess the gap. A business often sells for less than it is listed at.
- Sales are not profit. Two businesses with $1m in sales can earn $50,000 or $300,000. Among these listings the profit stated is 16% to 32% of sales for the middle half (156 listings state both), so the same sales figure can sit under very different prices. Profit is what a buyer pays for; the calculator starts there.
- It rests on 509 listings, not 3,462. Of 3,462 live listings, 2,969 state a price and 613 state yearly sales, and only 523 state both (15%).
- LINK Business Brokers lists 53% of the 509, so the range leans toward how that firm prices. We do not cap or reweight any firm's share.
- Sales are the broker's figure. 41 of the 509 are stated as approximate. What an asking price includes (stock, plant, a lease) varies by listing and is not recorded on the board.
The method, in full
- Each live listing on Signetry that states an asking price and a yearly revenue gives one figure: price divided by revenue.
- Accommodation is left out. Revenue under $50,000 is left out, as it is almost always a month or a week. A price under 0.05x or over 5x revenue is left out as a misread figure.
- A range is the middle half of what is left, from the 25th to the 75th percentile. Its middle is the median.
- A range needs at least 20 listings. Below that the range widens to the industry at any size, then to every industry near your sales, then to every listing, and the page says which. It never shows a single figure.
- For a sales figure, the listings used are those with sales from 70% to 140% of it. The range is then applied to your figure and rounded to the nearest $5,000.