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Special Research Report · March 2026

Payment Yield Benchmarks
by Industry

Industry-level Payment Yield benchmarks derived from five independent sources. Current performance ranges, achievable targets, and the methodology behind every number.

Payment Yield Benchmarks by Industry: Research Report Cover
Special Research Report
Payment Economics Institute · March 2026
Free · PDF · 28 pages

B2B payment operations have no published performance benchmark. Organizations that measure Payment Yield have no external reference to compare against. This report fills that gap with figures derived from five independent research sources across nine industry verticals.

The methodology uses the $400 million reference organization that appears throughout Issues 14 to 17 of the Journal, producing fully reconciled calculations across Payment Yield, Payment Cost Ratio, and the Payment Efficiency Index. Every benchmark traces back to a cited source or a documented calculation from the discipline's own framework.

What the report covers
Payment Yield ranges by industry
Achievable targets by vertical
Four performance tier framework
Dollar-value translation per tier
Payment Efficiency Index benchmarks
Dollar gap at $400M addressable spend
Full methodology and source citations
Nine industry verticals analyzed
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About This Report

The Payment Economics Journal introduced the concept of Payment Yield benchmarks in Issue 5. This report expands that work into a cross-sector analysis, applying the full Payment Economics metric set to nine industry verticals and deriving performance ranges from five independent research sources.

The report uses the $400 million reference organization that appears throughout Issues 14 to 17 of the Journal, producing fully reconciled calculations across Payment Yield, Payment Cost Ratio, and Payment Efficiency Index. Every benchmark in the report traces back to a cited source or a documented calculation from the discipline's own framework.

The methodology section explains the derivation of each figure. Where a benchmark comes from third-party research, the source is cited. Where it comes from the discipline's own mathematical framework applied to the reference organization, that derivation is shown. No figure is asserted without a foundation.