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Benchmark · Services · Late Stage · Mid-Market ($25k-$100k ACV)

Average CAC for Late Stage Mid-Market Services Companies

CAC Payback Period · Services · Mid-MarketSourced

20 months

Best-in-class (top quartile): 14 months

Methodology note: This source segments CAC payback by industry × customer size, not by company stage. The same 20-month payback applies across all 5 stages for services × mid-market. 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 · Mid-Market

Industry: ServicesProductised professional services with software leverage.
Stage: Late Stage$50M+ ARR or public, mature GTM, payback discipline.
ACV: Mid-Market ($25k-$100k ACV)Mid-market buyers, inside-sales motion, multi-stakeholder evaluation.