While the North East comfortably exceeds the national average, the data exposes a significant chasm between the best and worst payers, demonstrating that a rising tide doesn't necessarily lift all boats. The concentration of top payers within specific sectors, notably Human Resources and Software (albeit based on a small sample), hints at industry-specific payment cultures.
These companies demonstrate exemplary payment practices, reaching near-perfect PaymentCheck scores:
These companies are significantly underperforming, which may be of concern to smaller business suppliers:
The data shows some variance between sectors, although the sector sample sizes are small:
The Human Resources and Software sectors appear to be the strongest payers based on the data, but only contain 1 company each so this isn't representative of those sectors as a whole. Education appears to be the lowest paying sector (79.0 avg), but more data points are needed for each sector to get a clearer picture.
One-line takeaway: Despite an average PaymentCheck score of 63.3/100, 4 companies scored less than 31/100, revealing a significant disparity in payment performance across the North East. late payment calculator
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