What is it?
The share of gross margin that goes to wages and social charges.
If this share rises year after year, wages grow faster than what the company earns.
How to read it
Above 80 percent little is left for the rest. Naturally higher in services than in trade.
On Nummo you find this figure in the Figures tab of every company that filed annual accounts, over the years. In the tables, a small card gives this explanation in short.
How to calculate it
staff costs ÷ gross margin (in belgian annual accounts: 62 ÷ 9900)
The item numbers follow the official format of Belgian annual accounts, which builds on the European Accounting Directive.
Was this helpful?