Margins and profitability in temporary employment agency activities and other human resource provisions
267 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median company kept 1.8 % of every krone.
27 % 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 -4.0 %, and one tenth above 8.5 %. 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 | 41 | 1.5 % |
| 20 to 100 m | 135 | 1.9 % |
| over 100 m | 86 | 1.8 % |
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.
Geography
Where the companies are based
- Oslo1
- Sandnes1
- Trondheim1
The six postal towns with the most companies in this industry, by registered business address.
Public contracts
Who in the industry wins public contracts
41 of 267 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 15.4 %.
Those that win have median revenue of 149.5 m kr, against 50.5 m kr for those that do not. That is 3× as much. Note that this describes who wins, not evidence that contracts make companies large; large companies also find it easier to bid.
The 197 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.
- Lørenskog kommune15
- Universitetet I Bergen14
- Malvik kommune14
- Oslo kommune v/ Utviklings- og kompetanseetaten9
- Indre Østfold kommune8
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 temporary employment agency activities and other human resource provisions
- What is a normal operating margin in temporary employment agency activities and other human resource provisions?
- The median company kept 1.8 % of every krone. That means half of the 267 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
- What separates the best from the weakest in temporary employment agency activities and other human resource provisions?
- The top third kept 6.3 % of every krone, against -1.8 % for the weakest third. The spread is 8 percentage points, and that is within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
- How many companies are there in temporary employment agency activities and other human resource provisions in Norway?
- We hold filed accounts for 267 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 temporary employment agency activities and other human resource provisions?
- 27 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
- How large is a typical company in temporary employment agency activities and other human resource provisions?
- Median revenue is 55.8 m kr. Half of the companies fall between 28.1 m kr and 143.4 m kr.
- How much do public contracts matter in temporary employment agency activities and other human resource provisions?
- 41 of 267 companies, that is 15.4 %, have won at least one public contract since 2022. They have median revenue of 149.5 m kr, against 50.5 m kr for the rest.
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