Trade and industry; employment and finance per sector, SIC 2008

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Sector/branches (SIC 2008) Jobs Employee (x 1 000) Jobs Employed person (x 1 000) Labour volume persons employed Employee (x 1 000) Labour volume persons employed Employed person (x 1 000) Operating returns Total (x mln euro) Operating returns Net turnover (x mln euro) Operating returns Other revenues (x mln euro) Operating costs Total (x mln euro) Operating costs Purchase value of sales Total (x mln euro) Operating costs Purchase value of sales Costs of raw and auxiliary materials Total (x mln euro) Operating costs Purchase value of sales Costs of raw and auxiliary materials Initial stock of raw and auxiliary mater (x mln euro) Operating costs Purchase value of sales Costs of raw and auxiliary materials Purchased raw and auxiliary materials (x mln euro) Operating costs Purchase value of sales Costs of raw and auxiliary materials Closing stock raw and auxiliary mat. (x mln euro) Operating costs Purchase value of sales Costs of commodities Total (x mln euro) Operating costs Purchase value of sales Costs of commodities Initial stock of commodities (x mln euro) Operating costs Purchase value of sales Costs of commodities Purchased commodities (x mln euro) Operating costs Purchase value of sales Costs of commodities Closing stock of commodities (x mln euro) Operating costs Purchase value of sales Payments to subcontractors (x mln euro) Operating costs Purchase value of sales Purchase value not elsewhere classified (x mln euro) Operating costs Personnel costs Total (x mln euro) Operating costs Personnel costs Gross wages and salaries (x mln euro) Operating costs Personnel costs Insurance premiums and other costs Total (x mln euro) Operating costs Personnel costs Insurance premiums and other costs Employer-paid social insurance premiums (x mln euro) Operating costs Personnel costs Other personnel costs (x mln euro) Operating costs Other operating costs Total (x mln euro) Operating costs Other operating costs Costs of energy use (x mln euro) Operating costs Other operating costs Housing costs (x mln euro) Operating costs Other operating costs Equipment and inventory costs (x mln euro) Operating costs Other operating costs Transport costs (x mln euro) Operating costs Other operating costs Sales costs (x mln euro) Operating costs Other operating costs Communication costs (x mln euro) Operating costs Other operating costs Costs of other services (x mln euro) Operating costs Other operating costs Other liabilities (x mln euro) Operating costs Depreciation fixed assets (x mln euro) Operating results (x mln euro) Net financial income (x mln euro) Balance of provisions (x mln euro) Net extraordinary income (x mln euro) Pre-tax results (x mln euro)
B Mining and quarrying 8.5 12.0 7.8 11.0 29,627 29,444 183 28,286 24,078 881 145 854 119 20,197 5,004 17,534 2,341 2,937 63 1,329 736 110 . 366 2,076 222 113 347 168 34 14 250 929 804 1,341 465 33 -198 1,642
C Manufacturing 773.2 967.2 694.0 862.3 487,744 475,413 12,331 450,765 305,552 240,266 . . . 42,106 . . . 20,317 2,863 64,511 41,052 6,207 . 12,548 68,359 10,294 5,709 6,164 3,040 5,231 475 15,288 22,158 12,343 36,979 9,536 -950 -38 45,527
D Energy supply 37.0 47.4 34.3 42.6 79,027 76,193 2,834 72,745 59,109 10,869 641 10,637 410 46,001 691 45,644 334 1,535 705 4,255 2,513 320 . 1,092 4,185 33 388 645 78 240 49 966 1,787 5,197 6,282 -1,697 315 -1,192 3,708
E Water supply and waste management 33.1 43.1 30.0 38.0 13,239 12,949 289 12,177 5,773 3,526 . . . 218 . . . 1,777 252 2,699 1,632 263 . 611 2,538 414 297 414 365 40 39 276 693 1,167 1,062 -166 -42 7 861
F Construction 386.4 755.2 342.9 679.3 153,467 148,335 5,132 133,521 85,119 40,996 . . . 1,385 . . . 42,314 424 30,800 18,347 2,944 . 7,649 14,160 521 1,715 2,070 2,996 793 301 1,728 4,034 3,443 19,946 127 -69 375 20,379
G Wholesale and retail trade 1,585.9 2,019.5 1,047.3 1,392.2 965,067 954,738 10,329 919,995 753,386 . . . . . . . . . . 70,207 48,082 7,697 . 10,470 83,851 2,959 12,316 2,448 4,350 16,333 1,035 15,696 28,714 12,551 45,072 4,794 -175 692 50,383
H Transportation and storage 436.7 602.7 356.3 492.1 132,959 128,272 4,687 120,938 49,642 . . . . . . . . . . 30,933 19,691 2,944 . 6,297 32,644 872 3,431 1,207 14,025 1,502 347 4,815 6,446 7,718 12,022 6 -39 1,210 13,199
I Accommodation and food serving 557.6 690.2 272.8 381.6 39,838 39,232 606 34,291 11,602 . . . . . . . . . . 10,799 7,566 1,377 . 1,520 9,929 1,198 3,679 561 268 1,111 135 750 2,227 1,961 5,547 -601 2 272 5,220
J Information and communication 354.8 482.9 315.9 424.1 110,310 103,046 7,263 100,383 34,625 . . . . . . . . . . 30,666 21,550 3,025 . 4,844 25,650 577 2,093 497 993 3,999 348 3,288 13,856 9,442 9,927 145 -107 -1,315 8,649
N Renting and other business support 1,212.0 606.7 758.0 460.3 124,792 123,880 913 108,094 35,765 . . . . . . . . . . 42,927 30,916 6,003 . 4,558 19,632 313 1,634 472 1,372 6,611 272 2,792 6,166 9,771 16,698 -183 -373 -119 16,023
Source: CBS.
Explanation of symbols

Table explanation


This table shows relevant economic data for trade and industry sectors, e.g. the number of persons employed, costs and revenues, turnover and other financial results. The figures can be divided by a number of sectors/ branches according to Statistics Netherlands' Standard Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities 2008 (SIC 2008).

Data available from: 2009.

Status of the figures:
All data in the table are definite.

Changes as of April 18, 2025:

Figures of 2023 have been added.


When will new figures be published?

Results are made available circa 15 months after the year under review. In March/April 2026, new figures will be published for 2024.


Description topics

Jobs
A job is an explicit or implicit employment contract between a person and an economic unit which specifies that labour will be carried out in return for (financial) remuneration.

A distinction is made between jobs of employees and jobs of self-employed persons.
Employee
A person who has a contract with an economic unit to carry out work in return for financial remuneration.
Employed person
Someone working for a company located in the Netherlands, or an
institution or private household in the Netherlands.
Labour volume persons employed
The volume of labour input in the production process, in terms of hours worked or full-time equivalents.
Employee
A person who has a contract with an economic unit to carry out work in return for financial remuneration.
Employed person
Someone working for a company located in the Netherlands, or an
institution or private household in the Netherlands.
Operating returns
The results from normal business activities, this is the sales of goods
and services, the value of stock changes, the activated production for the company, subsidies and damage claims.

Since 2007, wage cost subsidies are no longer included.
Total
Net turnover
Business returns, excluding VAT (value added taxes) from the selling of goods and services to customers. Turnover is calculated after deduction of discounts, bonuses, returnable deposits and on-charged freight costs

Customers could be private persons and companies outside (the Dutch part) of the concern.
Other revenues
Revenues that are not part of net turnover.

These are:
- the value of changes in stock, including work in progress;
- payments for personnel on loan;
- activated production for the company;
- subsidies and export restitutions;
- compensation for damages.
Operating costs
The costs made to achieve the operating profits, that is the purchase value of the turnover, labour costs, and depreciation on assets, and other business expenditure.

Since 2007, wage (cost) subsidies are no longer included in net
operating returns. Therefore, wage (cost) subsidies are deducted from operating costs.
Total
Purchase value of sales
The costs of raw materials and semi-manufactured goods, packaging materials, trading goods, wages for work hired for the production of the goods and services used in the production within the reporting years.
Total
Costs of raw and auxiliary materials
The costs are the total of the value of the initial stock plus the costs
of the purchased materials minus the value of the closing stock

Including import duties, costs of transport, import levies European Union,
transport insurance and temporary storage.
Total
Initial stock of raw and auxiliary mater
Initial stock of raw and auxiliary materials and packing material.

The value on the balance sheet of raw and auxiliary materials (including purchased semi-finished products), packing material at the start of the period under review.
Purchased raw and auxiliary materials
The value of purchased raw and auxiliary materials (including purchased semi-finished products) and packing material for single use in the production process.

Includes import duties, costs of transport, import
levies European Union, transport insurance and temporary storage.
Excludes discounts, bonuses, goods returned, returned packing, VAT and received repayments of import duties, excises and levies.
Closing stock raw and auxiliary mat.
Closing stock of raw and auxiliary materials and packing material.

The value on the balance sheet of raw and auxiliary materials (including purchased semi-finished products), packing material at the end of the period under review.
Costs of commodities
Costs of commodities sold in the year under review.

Commodities purchased for the purpose of resale without any
further processing,including import duties, costs of transport, import
levies European Union, transport insurance and temporary storage
The costs are the total of the value of the initial stock plus the costs
of the purchased commodities minus the value of the closing stock
Total
Initial stock of commodities
The value on the balance sheet of commodities at the start of the period under review.
Purchased commodities
Goods acquired for the purpose of reselling them without further
processing. Includes costs of single use packing material, import duties, costs of temporary storage.
Excludes discounts, bonuses, goods returned, returned packing and received repayments of import duties, excises and levies.
Closing stock of commodities
The value on the balance sheet of commodities at the end of the period under review.
Payments to subcontractors
Costs of outsourced activities, including costs of any materials supplied by the subcontractor.
Purchase value not elsewhere classified
Purchase value of commodities, services etc. not elsewhere classified.
Personnel costs
This category comprises expenses like
- gross wages and salaries of employees, including social
security and pension scheme contributions
- payments for temporary workers and hired personnel
- costs of schooling and training
- recruitment and selection costs
- canteen costs
- costs for health and safety provisions
- working clothes
- anniversary celebrations, etc.
Total
Gross wages and salaries
The category gross wages and salaries refers to employees on the payroll
and includes
- wages including employees' contributions to social insurances minus sick pay;
- bonuses, holiday allowances, thirteenth month payments and dismissal payments
- allowances for commuter traffic
- contributions to savings schemes
Insurance premiums and other costs
Employers' social contributions: The premiums paid by employers to social security on the gross wages.
These include imputed and actual social premiums and actual pension premiums, and payments made directly by the employer.



other social insurance costs:

- contributions to health insurance;

- costs of staff relocation and housing;

- costs of child care, etc.
Total
Employer-paid social insurance premiums
The part of social insurance premiums paid by employers.

From 2021 onwards this subject is only available as part of the 'Insurance premiums and other costs
Other personnel costs
Other personnel costs
This category includes:
- payments for temporary workers and staff on secondment;
- costs of schooling and training;
- recruitment and selection costs;
- canteen costs;
- costs for health and safety provisions;
- costs for work clothes;
- anniversary celebrations, etc.
Other operating costs
The sum of the energy costs, transport costs, housing costs, costs of machinery, inventory, installations etc, other personnel costs, sales costs, communication costs, service costs and other costs not specified elsewhere.
Total
Costs of energy use
The costs of fuels used to power an energy source, for light and/or heat.
Not included are the costs of fuels used by means of transport or that are
used as raw materials, and also the costs for the use of water and the
costs for technical or compound gasses.
Housing costs
Including rent, lease and repair and maintenance of housing and premises,
cleaning services and insurance premiums water consumption, furniture, etc
Equipment and inventory costs
Rent and lease of machinery, equipment and computers (excluding software)
and (office) furniture and equipment.
Transport costs
Costs related to means of transport, including
- rental costs and lease costs
- repair and maintenance
- costs of insurances and road tax
- fuel costs.
Sales costs
Costs of sales and promotion, including advertising, commercial fairs,
representation, goodwill, travel and hotel costs and costs of research and
development by third parties.

Since 2006 costs of research and development by third parties are
included in the group 'Costs of other services'.
Communication costs
Walkie-talkies, (mobile) phones, fax machines, Internet, e-mail, messenger
services, etc.
Costs of other services
Costs of services provided by others not classified elsewhere.

These costs include:
- banking costs (excluding interest costs and currency losses)
- insurance premiums paid to third parties (not classified elsewhere)
- research and development costs by third parties, - -
- accountancy, legal aid and assistance, etc.
- ICT services provided by third parties, including hardware and software
- separately paid transport costs
- costs of waste disposal and waste processing
Since 2006 costs of research and development by third parties are
included in this group.
Other liabilities
This category includes costs and payments for activities like licenses,
copyright, royalties, lease and rent of software, overhead costs and
taxes, office supplies, etc.
Depreciation fixed assets
Depreciation of durable means of production, e.g. machinery buildings,
transport equipment, computers and software due to normal usage and
economic obsolescence. Depreciation of intangible assets, e.g. costs of
research and development, acquisition of intellectual rights and goodwill.
Operating results
Operating returns minus operating costs.
Net financial income
Total revenues and profits minus costs and losses of:
- interest;
- participations;
- dividends;
- loans;
- investments;
- other financial items.
Balance of provisions
The additions to provisions minus released provisions such as run-up and reconstitution funds, maintenance reserves, guarantee provisions, etc.
Net extraordinary income
Revenues minus costs not related to normal operational management, such as costs resulting from reorganisations, book profits and losses from the sale of a company or other assets, including tangible and intangible fixed assets. Depreciation of questionable debtors also is included in this item.
Pre-tax results
The sum of the operating results, the financial results, the balance of
provisions and extra-ordinary results.