{"id":9229,"date":"2017-11-12T17:40:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T15:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/?p=9229"},"modified":"2017-11-13T19:03:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T17:03:21","slug":"company-demography-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/company-demography-employment\/","title":{"rendered":"The IT companies in Sofia: a profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The number of large companies with over 250 employees grew from 15 to 20 between 2011 and 2015. The total number of people employed in such companies is now over 12 000 people, or an average of 623 employees per company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9230 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/distribution-it-cimpanies-sofia-by-type.png\" alt=\"distribution-it-cimpanies-sofia-by-type\" width=\"495\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/distribution-it-cimpanies-sofia-by-type.png 495w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/distribution-it-cimpanies-sofia-by-type-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/distribution-it-cimpanies-sofia-by-type-260x140.png 260w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/distribution-it-cimpanies-sofia-by-type-50x27.png 50w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/distribution-it-cimpanies-sofia-by-type-140x75.png 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Almost as many people were working in the 107 medium-sized companies (50-249 employees) \u00a0in the sector. A little less than 10 000 people were employed in the 441 small firms (10 to 49 employees).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Micro-companies (up to 9 employees) accounted for \u00a089% of all IT companies in Sofia. The number of micro-companies grew by 55% in 2015 compared with 2011, to reach a total of 4,810 firms. A total of 7,703 people worked in micro-companies in Sofia, or an average of 1.6 people per company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #333333;\">\u00a0State and Development of the IT Industry in Sofia Report<\/span><\/b><\/em><em><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; color: #333333;\">\u00a0contains data about the share of the IT sector in the economy of Sofia Municipality, the segmentation in the sector, profile of the companies and the employees, average wages and productivity rate, investments in the IT sector and\u00a0future trends for development of the industry in Sofia.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can download the full report with detailed data, analysis and graphs\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IT_Sector_Analysis_Sofia_Sept_2017_ENG.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you have further questions regarding the report or other data on the investment climate in Sofia, please contact our team at contact@investsofia.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of large companies with over 250 employees grew from 15 to 20 between 2011 and 2015. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsletter-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}