Margins and profitability in activities of employment placement agencies
37 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median company kept 1.8 % of every krone.
32 % of the companies in this industry posted a negative operating result that year.
The distribution
What companies in the industry earned
One tenth of companies fell below -7.9 %, and one tenth above 13.7 %. That is the real spread in the industry, not an average.
Top against weakest third
Size
Profitability by size
| Revenue | Companies | Median operating margin |
|---|---|---|
| 5 to 20 m | 12 | 0.3 % |
| 20 to 100 m | 18 | 2.9 % |
Companies are split into revenue bands, with the median margin in each. Bands with fewer than ten companies are omitted, because the median becomes too unstable to show.
Public contracts
Who in the industry wins public contracts
15 of 37 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 40.5 %.
Those that win have median revenue of 36.2 m kr, against 18.5 m kr for those that do not. That is 2× as much. Note that this describes who wins, not evidence that contracts make companies large; large companies also find it easier to bid.
The 102 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.
- Entur AS9
- Vygruppen AS5
- Politiets fellestjenester4
- Norges Bank4
- Norsk Tipping AS4
Contracts come from Doffin and TED. Our collection is not complete, and TED covers only contracts above the EEA threshold, so the figures are a floor and not a full count. We say what we find, not what exists.
Questions and answers
Common questions about activities of employment placement agencies
- What is a normal operating margin in activities of employment placement agencies?
- The median company kept 1.8 % of every krone. That means half of the 37 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
- What separates the best from the weakest in activities of employment placement agencies?
- The top third kept 12.0 % of every krone, against -4.9 % for the weakest third. The spread is 17 percentage points, and that is within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
- How many companies are there in activities of employment placement agencies in Norway?
- We hold filed accounts for 37 Norwegian companies on this industry code with at least one million kroner in revenue. The real number is higher, since dormant and very small companies are excluded.
- How many are loss-making in activities of employment placement agencies?
- 32 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
- How large is a typical company in activities of employment placement agencies?
- Median revenue is 23.2 m kr. Half of the companies fall between 8.5 m kr and 43.4 m kr.
- How much do public contracts matter in activities of employment placement agencies?
- 15 of 37 companies, that is 40.5 %, have won at least one public contract since 2022. They have median revenue of 36.2 m kr, against 18.5 m kr for the rest.
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