The administrative & support service activities sub-sector is the second smallest and hires the second most number of workers.

Types Of Businesses
Sub-Sector Highlights
Sub-Sector Snapshot (2006)
Business Costs
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Types Of Businesses

• Businesses that offer administrative & support services fall into this sub-sector. They include:
  
  
  • labour recruitment and provision of personnel 
  • management of human resource functions 
  • travel agencies and other reservation activities
  • investigation and security activities
  • building-cleaning and landscape care & maintenance activities
  • office administrative and call centre activities
  • direct mailing, stenographic and duplicating activities
  • activities of collection agencies and credit bureaus
  • exhibition fair and convention activities
  • other support activities (such as auction-sale services, packaging activities and agents for artistes, athletes, models and other performers)

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Sub-Sector Highlights

• The administrative & support service activities sub-sector, compared to other sub-sectors:
  
  
  • is the second smallest in terms of number of establishments
  • hires the second most number of workers
  • has the second lowest value added
  • has the lowest average remuneration per employee

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Sub-Sector Snapshot (2006)

Number of Establishments	5,859
Number of Workers	90,273
Operating Receipts	S$6.1 billion
Operating Expenditure	S$5.7 billion
Operating Surplus	S$533 million
Value Added	S$2.8 billion
Average Annual Remuneration per Employee	S$25,200

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Economic Surveys Series 2006: The Services Sector*
Department of Statistics (DOS)

* For more statistics on the Real Estate and Business Services sector, you can submit a data request form to DOS to check on the availability and cost of the data (if any).

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