Brand budget planner /
What should we budget for this?
A defensible planning range for brand development and rollout, built from a review of 91 published sources. Three short steps, one range, and the sentence you’ll need when finance asks where it came from.
What are you budgeting for?
Published ranges before rollout. Each option sits on the same scale.
About your organisation
Revenue and structure select the closest published benchmark. Sector sizes the marketing-budget cross-check.
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Above US$100m, the published enterprise benchmark is defined by structure — multiple divisions, brands or markets — rather than revenue alone.
Add to the scope
Optional. Pre-filled quantities are starting assumptions; adjust them to your brief.
Rollout and the principal brand applications are already included in this benchmark, so they aren’t added again.
/ Where these numbers come from.
Sources behind the current selection
Evidence types: industry survey (primary survey or large-sample marketplace data), published rate card (a vendor’s actual shelf price), agency pricing guide (an agency’s own post about what things cost — most public design pricing, which is why this page shows a range, never a quote).
What the research could not find
- No Australian source publishes a price for a branding project. The branding ranges here are North American, converted where you switch currency, and rounded hard because a converted range is no more precise than its source.
- One source, Veloura’s 2026 guide, tiers rebrand pricing by size and defines its own bands: small business under about $5m revenue, mid-market $10m–100m, enterprise by structure (multi-division or multi-market), not revenue. The refresh and rebrand cards use those bands as written; where Veloura is silent ($5m–10m, above $100m) the nearest band is shown and labelled. Elsewhere, sector and revenue only size the budget cross-check.
- The cross-check uses marketing budget as a share of revenue (Gartner 2026 CMO Spend Survey; Deloitte/Duke/AMA CMO Survey) and a published 5–10% rebrand share of that budget. It measures capacity, not the price of a deliverable — a check, not a quote.
- Low and high are the published floor and ceiling. The midpoint is their average, offered for convenience; no source publishes a median.
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