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Bookkeeping for painters

Painters are paid by homeowners for repaints, by builders for new work and by agencies for maintenance on rental and strata properties, while paint and gear come from trade paint accounts. We look after day-to-day bookkeeping for painters across Australia.

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Businesses in Painting and Decorating Services (ANZSIC class 3244)

Actively trading businesses across Australia
24,357 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, June 2025, checked 15 October 2026
Of those, classified as non-employing
16,828 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, June 2025, checked 15 October 2026
Of those, with 1 to 4 employees
6,583 businessesAustralian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, June 2025, checked 15 October 2026

Businesses by main state or territory

  1. New South Wales8,242 businesses
  2. Victoria6,831 businesses
  3. Queensland4,635 businesses
  4. Western Australia2,069 businesses
  5. South Australia1,546 businesses
  6. Australian Capital Territory458 businesses
  7. Tasmania430 businesses
  8. Northern Territory146 businesses
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, June 2025. Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2: Businesses by main state by industry class by employment size ranges (8165DC02.xlsx). Checked 15 Oct 2026.

Businesses by number of employees

  1. Non-employing16,828 businesses
  2. 1 to 4 employees6,583 businesses
  3. 5 to 19 employees859 businesses
  4. 20 to 199 employees85 businesses
  5. 200 or more employees3 businesses
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, June 2025. Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2: Businesses by main state by industry class by employment size ranges (8165DC02.xlsx). Checked 15 Oct 2026.

What we look after

What the books involve

  • Residential repaints: a deposit taken when the quote is accepted and the balance invoiced once the painting is done, with both payments matched to the job so unpaid balances are easy to spot.
  • New homes and commercial work: painting stages claimed from builders under each contract, and any amount the builder holds back recorded until it is released.
  • Trade paint accounts: paint, primers, fillers, tape and drop sheets matched to the paint store's monthly statement, with tinted and colour-matched orders coded to the job they were mixed for.
  • Rental and strata maintenance: repaints and touch-ups ordered by agencies invoiced with the agency's reference and the property address, then listed each month until the agency pays.
  • Spray rigs, ladders and scaffold: equipment the business owns recorded as assets, and scaffold or lift hire charged to the project that needed it.
  • Subcontracted painters: invoices from other painters brought onto larger projects entered against those projects, so the labour cost of each project sits beside its quote.

Sources

  1. Counts of Australian Businesses, data cube 2: Businesses by main state by industry class by employment size ranges (8165DC02.xlsx)

    Australian Bureau of Statistics. Actively trading businesses at 30 June 2025, released 16 December 2025. Checked 15 October 2026.

    Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Counts of Australian Businesses, including Entries and Exits, June 2021 to June 2025, licensed under CC BY 4.0 Licence: CC BY 4.0.

  2. Correspondence, GCCSA 2021 to GCCSA 2026 (CG_GCCSA_2021_GCCSA_2026.csv)

    Australian Bureau of Statistics. ASGS Edition 4, July 2026 to June 2031, released 22 July 2026. Checked 15 October 2026.

    Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) Edition 4, licensed under CC BY 4.0 Licence: CC BY 4.0.

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