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Office administrative, office support and other business support activities

NACE 8220
Current registrations185
Starters, 12 months · division 82
4,542
Employment (FTE) · division 82
40,509
Median age · division 82
5.9 years

In NACE division 82, 11.2 companies per 100 started in the past twelve months, against 7.5 nationally; that is higher than that of 83% of the 87 NACE divisions. Comparison: as of 12-10-2026 05:30.

Key figures for NACE division 82

financial year 2025 · median over 13,381 filed annual accounts
Median solvency
48.6%
higher than 76% of 79 divisions
Median equity
€76,490
lower than 75% of 79 divisions
Median net result
€18,094
higher than 57% of 79 divisions
Annual accounts in sample
13,381

Foreign control in NACE division 82

22,389 registered companies

Staff cost per FTE in NACE division 82

1,319 employers
Median
€69,900
Belgium €61,300
Middle half
€52,000 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 €50,400 to €91,000 833
10 to 49 FTE €72,700 €54,000 to €93,700 376
50 to 249 FTE €75,400 €53,500 to €97,900 89
250 FTE or more €76,100 €56,900 to €89,800 21

Bankruptcies

past five years
Bankruptcies (5y)
13
Historical share
7.03%

Nationally, 1.60% 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 20,678 scored companies. Comparison: as of 12-10-2026 05:30.

Bankruptcies still running

NACE division 82
Running bankruptcies
336
Half have run longer than
18 months
Belgium: 21 months
Longer than three years
26%
Belgium: 31%

Measured nationally: Of 107,714 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entities across Belgium, 49% were closed within five years for insufficient assets and 28% after liquidation, 3% were withdrawn; 20% were still open after five years.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 12 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 · 130 of 185 enterprises with a registered office on file
Flanders 91 · 70.0%
Wallonia 20 · 15.4%
Brussels 18 · 13.8%
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
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
12-05-2025 ALLSTARS IT BELGIUM
BE 0794.133.951

Geographic distribution

by province · based on the establishment address
fewer moremax 26

Subsidies in this sector

per register · legal entities with an enterprise number
  • Flemish subsidies €312.6m awarded 2,719 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 93 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Dépense de toute nature relative au subventionnement des organes de représentation et de coordination
  • EU budget €618.1m attributed share 116 recipients · 2021 to 2025 · largest: Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument, Global Europe
  • EU research €160.8m eu contribution 86 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 8220 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 8220 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.