averagecac.com

Benchmark · Services · Late Stage · Enterprise ($100k+ ACV)

Average CAC for Late Stage Enterprise Services Companies

CAC Payback Period · Services · EnterpriseSourced

30 months

Best-in-class (top quartile): 20 months

Methodology note: This source segments CAC payback by industry × customer size, not by company stage. The same 30-month payback applies across all 5 stages for services × enterprise. For more on this site's methodology, see methodology.


Sources

First Page Sage segments CAC payback by industry × customer size only; the same payback applies across all 5 company stages within this segment. For stage-segmented data, see the SaaS Capital benchmark survey (segments by ARR band but is paywalled for cell-level numbers).

How we define this cut

Services · Late Stage · Enterprise

Industry: ServicesProductised professional services with software leverage.
Stage: Late Stage$50M+ ARR or public, mature GTM, payback discipline.
ACV: Enterprise ($100k+ ACV)Enterprise buyers, field sales, long sales cycles, procurement gates.