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Is your consultancy earning enough?
Type of firm	coefficient
architects	15.15
surveyors	19.7
civil and structural engineers	15.4
multidisciplinary practices	19.2
quantity surveyors	15.2
The survey discovered a strong relationship between fee income and number of employees. To work out how much you should be making, divide the number of people in your office (including non-professionals) by the coefficient and multiply by a million. So, an architect with 15 or so staff should have a turnover about £1m. Alternatively, multiply income by coefficient and divide by one million to find out if you need to fire anyone …