What information is held in this DBA microsite?

• a report analysing the fees, salaries, utilisation, income, recovery rates, benefits and trends of DBA Members written in conjunction with accountants Moore Kingston Smith
• dynamic data tables which allow users to isolate specific benchmarking data for fees, salaries, and utilisation rates depending on location, size of agency and design discipline. Data is provided as averages, lower quartiles, upper quartiles, highest and lowest.

Who can access this site?

All DBA members have exclusive access to the 2025 report and data in this microsite. Login details have been sent to senior staff in eligible member companies. If you want to take part in our next survey please let us know the name of the person in your organisation who we should send the survey to.

Senior contacts at all member agencies are sent the written report as a PDF, enabling them to share it amongst relevant staff within their teams. New copies can be requested from membership@dba.org.uk.

Not a DBA member? If you are interested in benefiting from access to information allowing you to benchmark your business against those at the top end of the design industry please contact us on membership@dba.org.uk or visit www.dba.org.uk for more details.