Owners
Owners of design-only firms reported an average of 4 employees, and nearly 40% of owners responding are one-person firms. Ninety-three percent of those owners responding design themselves; 7% do not design.
Some 43% of owners of design-only companies gave themselves a raise in 2006, and 45% of those who did not gave themselves a raise in 2005. The average raise a design-only owner gave him or herself was $12,651.
Design-only owners took an average of eight vacation days (34% took none) and averaged one sick day (65% took no sick days at all) and four other paid holidays.
About 38% paid out a Christmas or year-end bonus, with the average bonus paid at $1,505; and 23% paid out a performance bonus averaging $2,218.
Nearly 60% of design-only owners have their own company car. Seventy percent of owners polled have a college degree or graduate school education.
Average total revenue for firms was reported at $920,275, and owners accounted for nearly half of that themselves, or $440,476.
Sixty two percent of those responding report having an arrangement to use other companies' showrooms, and 79% use more than one.
Respondents had been in the kitchen/bath industry an average of 14 years, but had owned their own companies an average of 11 years. Over 20% had been in the industry less than five years.