France paid employment: administrative & support services
France paid employment: administrative & support services stood at 2,354 thousand persons in 2025, according to INSEE – Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (BDM). It is one of the indicators in the Annual national accounts table (Value · Annual), with a complete series running from 1959 to 2025. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the Annual national accounts table
| Indicator | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paid employment (persons) | |||||||||||
| Administrative and support service activities | 2,354 | 2,376.1 | 2,395.6 | 2,408.1 | 2,299.3 | 2,119.1 | 2,280.9 | 2,330.2 | 2,231.7 | 2,077.8 | |
| Arts, entertainment and recreation | 627.6 | 619.5 | 603 | 583.3 | 554.9 | 529 | 551.2 | 550.2 | 558.3 | 556.8 |
Understanding france paid employment: administrative & support services
Enumerating salaried individuals providing operational support, office administration, security, travel agency services, and cleaning, this metric records headcounts specifically bound to tertiary business services. Employees working on temporary contracts or agency assignments are attributed according to the industry governing their direct payroll rather than the client firm where tasks are executed. Part-time schedules count identically to full-time roles, which requires analysts to review full-time equivalent sibling measures when assessing actual labor volume.
Interpreting figures properly entails examining shifts in outsourcing patterns, since enterprises frequently transition internal staff to specialized vendors, boosting headcount tallies in this classification without altering total economic employment. Revisions often occur when annual tax filings and social security declarations replace preliminary estimation models, occasionally shifting personnel numbers between adjacent service categories. Annual comparisons serve as the standard verification method because seasonal fluctuations driven by tourism and temporary facility management projects distort shorter intervals.
Frequently asked questions
- How are temporary workers counted in administrative and support service activities?
- Workers are tallied under the sector of their direct employer, meaning agency staff appear under employment agencies rather than client businesses.
- Why does this series fluctuate throughout the year?
- Demand for facility support, security, and travel services shifts according to seasonal business cycles and tourism flows.
- Does this headcount distinguish between part-time and full-time administrative workers?
- No, each individual counts as a single unit regardless of weekly hours worked, making full-time equivalent measures necessary for precise labor volume comparisons.