Changes to the pricing dataset

Every change to the pricing dataset is recorded here in date order, including changes that do not alter a figure — a revised scope or a corrected sample size changes what a figure means, which is the same thing as changing it.

The purpose is traceability. If someone cites a band from this site in six months, they should be able to establish what that band said on the day they read it, and whether it has moved since.

What gets recorded

• Any change to a band’s low, high or typical figure
• Any change to a band’s scope statement
• Any change to a band’s project count
• Any band added, excluded or reinstated
• Any change to the dataset’s GST treatment, date or collection method
• Any change to the publication state

Each entry states the date, what changed, and why.

Record

31 July 2026 — dataset created, unreleased

The file research/pricing-bands.json was created with seven bands, each carrying a label and an empty scope, no figures, and no project count. The dataset status was set to PLACEHOLDER_UNREVIEWED and its publication flag to false.

No figure has ever been published from this dataset. The pricing pages were built and released around it in this state deliberately, so that the refusal mechanism was proven in production before there was anything to refuse.

The criteria that must be satisfied before the first release, and which of them are currently met, are listed on how the pricing figures are gathered.