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Office administrative, office support and other business support activities

NACE 822
Current registrations190
Starters, 12 months · division 82
4,552
Employment (FTE) · division 82
39,522
Median age · division 82
5.9 years

In NACE division 82, 11.1 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is higher than that of 84% of the 87 NACE divisions. Comparison: as of 08-10-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 82

fiscal year 2025 · median over 13,408 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
48.8%
higher than 73% of 79 divisions
Median equity
€76,442
lower than 76% of 79 divisions
Median net result
€18,038
higher than 56% of 79 divisions
Annual accounts in sample
13,408

Foreign control in NACE division 82

22,383 registered companies

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 82

1,313 employers
Median
€70,000
Belgium €61,300
Middle half
€51,800 to €92,200
half of the employers lie between
Place among sectors
26 of 78
by median staff cost per FTE
By size class
SizeMedianMiddle halfEmployers
fewer than 10 FTE €66,800 €50,300 to €91,000 823
10 to 49 FTE €72,600 €53,900 to €93,700 379
50 to 249 FTE €75,700 €53,800 to €97,800 90
250 FTE or more €76,100 €56,900 to €89,800 21

Bankruptcies

past five years
Bankruptcies (5y)
14
Historical share
7.37%

Nationally, 1.61% of current registrations have a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. This sector's historical share is higher than every NACE division. The median bankruptcy probability in NACE division 82 is 0.2%, against 0.2% nationally, over 20,907 scored companies. Comparison: as of 08-10-2026 05:30.

Bankruptcies still running

NACE division 82
Running bankruptcies
344
Half have run longer than
18 months
Belgium: 21 months
Longer than three years
25%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 107,750 bankruptcies of legal entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn; 20% were still open after five years. Half had ended after 26 months (a quarter after 15, three quarters after 51 months).

Counts companies with this main activity in the register on 9 October 2026. The outcome itself is not measured by sector: the activity of a company that leaves the register after its bankruptcy is too often not kept to compare closed cases fairly.

Outcome by court and division

Regional split

by region · 132 of 190 enterprises with a registered office on file
Flanders 93 · 70.5%
Wallonia 20 · 15.2%
Brussels 18 · 13.6%
Unknown 1 · 0.8%

Recent bankruptcies in this sector

8
Date Company
28-09-2026 IKANBI BELGIUM
BE 0445.248.212
15-06-2026 CHILD FOR LIFE
BE 1004.541.403
29-04-2026 Kamari
BE 0769.790.812
11-03-2026 Smets, Cynthia
BE 0656.612.596 · sole trader · Meise
28-01-2026 EMCC
BE 0647.904.075
13-10-2025 Soleo Contact Gent
BE 0466.878.420
13-10-2025 Soleo Contact Belgium
BE 0843.073.025
02-07-2025 Contact Solutions
BE 0690.894.871

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address
fewer moremax 27

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €365.3m awarded 2,711 recipients · 2022 to 2025 · largest: Vlaams Gemeentefonds
  • Federal transfers 34.9m amount as published 26 recipients · 2023 to 2025 · largest: Federale dotatie aan de meergemeentepolitiezones en aan de gemeenten tot dekking van de meerkosten voortvloeiend uit de politiehervorming
  • Wallonia-Brussels Federation €38.6m paid 94 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Dépense de toute nature relative au subventionnement des organes de représentation et de coordination
  • EU budget €618.9m attributed share 119 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Horizon Europe
  • EU research €161.9m eu contribution 88 recipients · 2008 to 2027 · largest: Horizon Europe

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How these figures are counted

Current enterprise registrations are counted through their registered main activities; establishment units are excluded. Counted in the KBO's NACE 2025 nomenclature, the one in which code 822 exists.

Share of currently registered companies with a published bankruptcy opening in the past five years. Registered main activities in the selected classification can overlap. This retrospective share is not a future bankruptcy probability.

The comparison with the country and with the other NACE divisions comes from a nightly overview of every division, each counted in the nomenclature in which it exists. A standing such as "higher than 80%" counts the other divisions that have the figure. The bankruptcy probability is the median of our nightly score over the division's companies that have one; the count is stated.

The key figures cover the whole NACE division 82, not NACE 822 on its own: there are too few filed annual accounts per five-digit code to compute them separately. The middle company of the sector, based on all filed annual accounts.