NACE 85.310

Margins and profitability in general secondary education

40 Norwegian companies in this industry. The median operating margin was 4.4 %, meaning what was left of revenue once every cost had been paid.

13 % of the companies in this industry posted a negative operating result that year.

In kroner

Revenue and operating profit

Revenue and operating profit
Median companyTop third
RevenueNOK 40,490,219NOK 34,807,830
Operating profitNOK 2,057,131NOK 5,070,227
Revenue per employeeNOK 912,021NOK 1,023,760

Revenue per employee is calculated on the 39 of 40 companies that report an employee count, as the median of the ratio within each company.

Median, not mean. A mean would be pulled up by the largest companies in the industry, and would say little about a typical one.

The distribution

What companies in the industry earned

One tenth of companies fell below -1.4 %, and one tenth above 15.0 %. That is the real spread in the industry, not an average.

Top against weakest third

Top third
12.2 %
Weakest third
1.3 %
Spread
11 percentage points
Equity ratio
47.1 %median of 40

Geography

Where the companies are based

Where the companies are based
Oslo7
Bergen4
Drammen2
Sandvika2
Grimstad2
Stranda1

The six postal towns with the most companies in this industry, by registered business address.

Public contracts

Who in the industry wins public contracts

1 of 40 companies in the industry have won at least one public contract since 2022, that is 2.5 %.

Only 1 companies in the industry have won a public contract since 2022. That is too few for us to say how large they are compared with the rest.

Who puts them out to tender

The 1 contracts we find come most often from these buyers.

Who puts them out to tender
Høgskulen på Vestlandet1

Contracts come from Doffin and TED. Our collection is not complete, and TED covers only contracts above the EEA threshold, so the figures are a floor and not a full count. We say what we find, not what exists.

Questions and answers

Common questions about general secondary education

What is a normal operating margin in general secondary education?
The median operating margin was 4.4 %, meaning what was left of revenue once every cost had been paid. Half of the 40 companies in the sample were above it, and half below.
What separates the best from the weakest in general secondary education?
The top third had an operating margin of 12.2 %, against 1.3 % for the weakest. The spread is 11 percentage points, within the same industry, the same country and the same year.
How many companies are there in general secondary education in Norway?
We hold filed accounts for 40 Norwegian companies on this industry code with at least one million kroner in revenue. The real number is higher, since dormant and very small companies are excluded.
How much revenue does a company in General secondary education generate per employee?
The median company in General secondary education turns over NOK 912,000 per employee. The figure is calculated on the 39 of 40 companies that report an employee count.
How many are loss-making in general secondary education?
13 % of the companies in the sample posted a negative operating result.
How large is a typical company in general secondary education?
Median revenue is NOK 40.5m. Half of the companies fall between NOK 30m and NOK 63.4m.
How much do public contracts matter in general secondary education?
We find almost no public contracts in this industry since 2022, so public procurement appears to play little role here.

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Method. 40 companies registered on industry code 85.310 (General secondary education) with filed accounts and at least one million kroner in revenue. The figures come from the Norwegian Register of Business Enterprises and are public. Operating margin is operating profit divided by operating revenue.

All figures are from the 2025 accounts as filed with the Brønnøysund Register Centre. The year comes from the accounting period, not from the filing date, so every company appears with the year its figures actually cover.

We show one cross-section and no trend line. Our database has broad coverage for 2024 and 2025, but only a small and non-random sample for the years before. A curve over a longer period would therefore measure who we happened to collect, not what happened in the industry.

Companies with under one million in revenue are excluded, because dormant limited companies would otherwise pull the median down. We do not publish an industry page until we hold at least 30 companies.

This is a description of an industry, not a ranking of companies. We name no individual company here.

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