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)
10 Manufacture of food products 146.1 193.9 123.2 162.4 108,146 106,307 1,838 103,144 77,154 66,171 4,297 65,432 3,558 7,453 770 7,513 830 2,647 883 11,468 6,731 998 . 3,000 12,243 2,106 1,152 1,265 377 939 60 2,399 3,946 2,279 5,002 1,423 -109 41 6,357
105 Manufacture of dairy products 18.7 23.4 18.3 22.2 19,734 19,801 -66 19,476 15,256 14,078 701 14,010 633 743 145 765 167 426 9 1,912 1,184 144 . 440 1,826 376 129 254 22 189 10 585 263 482 258 94 -100 -7 246
106 Grain milling and starch products 4.9 5.3 4.5 4.9 3,833 3,700 133 3,615 2,477 1,947 109 1,910 73 500 31 496 27 30 1 423 287 42 . 47 611 129 55 109 9 38 3 147 121 104 218 12 1 54 285
1061 Manufacture of grain mill products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
107 Manufacture of bakery products 43.9 53.1 30.4 37.8 7,530 7,459 71 6,803 3,402 2,962 171 2,952 161 401 10 402 10 37 2 1,844 1,150 188 . 400 1,298 261 217 191 117 105 9 194 205 259 728 -38 -1 -5 685
12 Manufacture of tobacco products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
13-15 Man. of textile-, leatherproducts 15.5 19.0 13.5 16.8 4,489 4,456 33 4,158 2,428 1,934 315 1,891 272 419 92 440 113 59 16 950 668 99 . 124 656 90 95 65 25 96 8 121 155 124 331 -64 -5 -21 241
16 Manufacture of wood products 16.8 22.9 14.9 20.5 5,439 5,388 50 4,960 3,082 2,544 288 2,524 268 347 49 352 53 161 30 1,042 648 106 . 228 680 78 134 112 62 46 7 89 154 156 479 -52 -2 24 450
162 Manufacture of products of wood 15.4 21.1 13.6 18.8 4,797 4,755 42 4,366 2,683 2,200 226 2,184 210 309 37 312 40 145 29 952 589 97 . 209 600 65 125 96 52 42 6 76 138 131 431 -50 -2 24 404
18 Printing and reproduction 15.7 18.9 13.3 15.9 3,145 3,095 50 2,825 1,328 1,078 134 1,053 108 79 9 79 9 155 16 820 579 99 . 103 570 60 90 104 23 53 10 83 147 107 320 -18 -1 20 321
182 Reproduction of recorded media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
22 Manufacture rubber, plastic products 36.5 43.4 33.1 38.6 11,789 11,723 65 10,909 5,986 5,078 842 4,949 713 774 123 778 126 127 6 2,580 1,716 280 . 430 1,865 359 283 231 65 133 16 316 463 477 880 90 -18 -8 943
221 Manufacture of rubber products 2.8 3.4 2.6 3.1 880 872 8 824 462 332 58 321 47 125 8 137 21 5 1 214 151 21 . 30 105 26 10 14 4 10 1 22 19 43 56 0 0 1 56
222 Manufacture of plastic products 33.7 40.1 30.4 35.5 10,909 10,851 58 10,085 5,524 4,746 784 4,629 666 650 114 641 105 122 6 2,366 1,564 259 . 401 1,760 333 273 217 61 123 15 295 444 435 824 90 -18 -9 887
2229 Manufacture other plastic products 10.5 12.6 9.3 10.9 2,625 2,610 15 2,388 1,178 1,052 235 1,046 229 89 21 89 22 36 0 654 442 74 . 112 451 68 80 59 15 34 5 61 129 105 237 41 -9 0 269
236 Manufacture concrete etc. products 11.0 13.9 10.2 12.9 4,455 4,381 74 4,207 2,414 2,081 173 2,068 160 146 65 151 70 148 40 916 551 89 . 212 731 99 89 131 77 28 7 141 159 146 248 -24 -1 8 232
2361 Manufacture of concrete products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
24-25 Man. of basic metals and -products 116.2 149.6 105.3 135.8 39,270 39,191 79 36,797 20,702 17,256 3,765 16,415 2,923 1,326 292 1,351 318 2,079 42 8,876 5,653 886 . 1,720 5,918 978 778 1,193 331 659 64 803 1,114 1,301 2,473 -169 -23 1 2,283
25 Manufacture of metal products 96.6 127.8 86.8 115.2 29,241 28,850 391 26,319 14,830 12,027 2,758 11,907 2,638 1,168 214 1,203 248 1,599 37 6,886 4,326 695 . 1,408 3,686 420 662 559 267 255 51 489 985 916 2,922 -90 -14 0 2,818
259 Manufacture of other metal products 13.2 15.3 11.9 13.8 4,707 4,695 12 4,349 2,652 2,242 433 2,182 373 290 64 313 87 117 4 948 626 101 . 155 599 100 80 74 33 38 7 92 175 150 358 -26 5 -32 305
26 Manufacture of electronic products 29.7 34.6 27.7 31.6 20,021 19,070 951 17,281 10,167 8,273 1,169 8,341 1,237 1,638 474 1,670 506 150 107 2,894 1,888 259 . 481 3,743 78 163 101 42 261 49 1,541 1,508 477 2,740 -311 -101 -10 2,318
32 Manufacture of other products 18.5 25.3 15.4 21.5 3,644 3,509 135 3,284 1,493 1,224 . . . 192 . . . 73 5 1,035 737 114 . 131 623 31 102 33 36 97 15 123 187 132 360 15 0 18 393
329 Manufacture of other products n.e.c. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
3311 Repair of fabricated metal products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
462 Wholesale of agricultural products 39.0 57.5 31.3 46.8 73,117 72,734 383 71,949 66,239 . . . . . . . . . . 2,477 1,612 242 . 506 2,851 153 412 102 262 253 32 722 916 381 1,168 -455 -18 38 734
4675 Wholesale of chemical products 10.8 12.2 9.8 11.0 27,217 27,009 208 25,952 22,940 . . . . . . . . . . 929 667 97 . 105 1,899 32 96 57 305 194 11 719 487 183 1,265 808 1 115 2,189
59 Film, TV and music production etc 17.3 44.8 13.3 34.1 8,508 . . 7,263 2,016 . . . . . . . . . . 1,144 751 106 . 248 3,913 36 165 58 44 358 18 90 3,145 190 1,246 53 -12 -78 1,208
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.