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SOFICS: employer check

SOFICS (Aalter) averaged 23 full-time equivalents in fiscal year 2025. Is the workforce growing, do people stay, and how does the employer compare with its sector?

SOFICS
BE 0472.687.037AalterNACE 72.109, Other research and development on natural sciences
Social balance 2025 · abbreviated schemaOther company
Staff
22.7 FTE
24 people on 31-12-2025+2% on 2024
Sector median 8.4 FTEmiddle half
Turnover
11%
4 joined, 3 left
Sector median 17%middle half
Staff cost per FTE
€106,700
fiscal year 2025 · cost to the employer, not a salary
Training
153.3 hours per FTE
3,481 hours in total · €237,000
Sector 41% report trainingmedian 14.2 hhighest quarter

Staff cost per FTE over the years

euro per full-time equivalent

From 2020 to 2025 the staff cost per FTE rose by 20%.

Best-paying employers in Research and development

Staff over the years

average FTE

From 2020 to 2025 staff grew by 51%. Years before the social balance in this form come from the accounts themselves.

Entries and exits

joinedleft

Make-up on 31-12-2025

24 people
Full-time and part-timesector: 16% part-time
full-time 23 (96%)part-time 1 (4%)
Men and womensector: 51% women
men 21 (88%)women 3 (13%)
Type of contractsector: 100% permanent
permanent 24 (100%)
Job category
white-collar 24 (100%)

Training in 2025

ParticipantsHoursCost
Formal 13 234 €34,800
Less formal 26 3,247 €202,200

Training cost is 9.8% of personnel cost.

Every figure per fiscal year

as filed
20212022202320242025
Average staff (FTE)1716.71922.322.7
Full-time / part-time (average)15.8 / 1.315.8 / 1.118.3 / 0.821.2 / 1.522.7 / -
People at the closing date1719212324
Hours worked27,68727,61131,55837,69238,462
Personnel cost€1,457,300€1,437,200€1,760,100€2,070,200€2,422,500
Joined (people)25844
Left (people)23623
Exit rate12%17%29%7%11%
Training hours8621,3811,9623,8843,481

Recognised training company

dual learning, Flanders

Not in the Flemish register of recognised dual-learning workplaces.

Employer stability

  • Status Active; no open bankruptcy or judicial reorganisation.
  • Financial health Checked score 77/100 (excellent), accounts 2025
  • Filing of accounts Accounts for 2025 filed on time.
  • In business since 05-09-2000 (26 years)

How to read these figures

  • Source: the social balance in the annual accounts the company filed with the National Bank of Belgium. It covers its own staff, not that of its subsidiaries.
  • Personnel cost is the employer's total cost (gross pay, employer contributions, insurance and other benefits), not an employee's pay.
  • The staff costs of the annual accounts (item 62) divided by the average staff in full-time equivalents of the same fiscal year: what one full-time employee costs the employer, social contributions included. Neither a gross nor a net salary. Under 10 FTE an average approaches one person's pay; we do not show that figure.
  • The sector is the NACE division of the main activity. Percentages are compared with employers of at least 5 FTE; the middle half runs from the first to the third quartile.
  • Exits are the number of leavers in full-time equivalents against average staff. Students, flexi-jobs and seasonal work are included and can make the percentage high.