Build a Carpentry Business That Pays You ProperlyYou can frame, fix out and hang a door dead level. Nobody taught you the business side.

It depends on where you contract. Queensland triggers at $3,300 of contracted work, New South Wales at $5,000, Victoria at $10,000 and Western Australia at $20,000. South Australia licenses any contracted building work. New Zealand has no dollar threshold: carpentry sits under the Licensed Building Practitioner scheme for Restricted Building Work. Check your regulator, then use the Learning Hub to build the business behind the licence.

Both work, and most carpentry businesses run a mix. Subbying to builders gives steady volume and less selling, but the builder sets the rate, the schedule and the payment terms. Direct work carries better margin, and you carry the marketing and the quoting. Tradie Teams puts you in a small group of trade owners working through exactly that call.

Often yes. The ATO treats a contract that is wholly or principally for a person's labour as one where super is payable, and having an ABN does not change that. Get it wrong across a crew of subbies and the shortfall compounds quietly. Check each arrangement against the ATO guidance, then build the real cost into your rates. TSA coaching walks owners through that maths.

Sooner than most owners think. In New South Wales a small jobs contract applies from $5,000 and a large jobs contract from $20,000. In Queensland the QBCC sets level 1 domestic building contracts from $3,300 and level 2 from $20,000. Below those numbers a written scope still protects you. The Learning Hub covers the contract and variation process.