Administrative and support services
Administrative and support service activities: cleaning, security, staffing, call centres. It is the branch that declares the most formal employment in Chile — one in seven dependent workers in the register — and the one that added the most over the twenty years, a million people more than in 2005. It is also where outsourcing leaves its trace: the worker appears on the payroll of the firm that hired them, not of the place where they work.
Maps exactly onto CIIU Rev. 4 section N.
Territorial distribution
340/346 communesShaded by how much of each commune's own formal payroll this sector is — not by headcount, which would draw the same map of where people live for every sector.
Counted at the firm's registered address, not the workplace. SII assigns a company's whole payroll to the commune of its tax domicile, so a head office in Santiago carries the shifts worked everywhere else. Read this as where the sector files, and the count below as where its workers live.
Communes with at least 200 workers in the sector, so a village with one firm does not top the list.
What the branch is made of
19 divisions · 33 activitiesA section of twenty-one parts says what this page is called. The register files firms two levels below it, and those parts are not one economy: actividades de servicios de apoyo a las empresas n.c.p. and arrendamiento de propiedad intelectual y similares, excepto obras protegidas por derechos de autor share a letter and little else. Each division has a page of its own.
- Actividades de servicios de apoyo a las empresas n.c.p. 490,074
- Actividades de seguridad privada 268,423
- Otras actividades de dotación de recursos humanos 230,048
- Actividades de limpieza 172,568
The list stops where 4 divisions have accounted for 81% of the branch's employment. The other 15 are together 19.3% of it and are drawn above, each as its own tile: every division of the register.
Two ways to count the jobs
SII 2024 · Casen 2024Series 2005–2024
2005–2024Who the sector runs on
SII 2024Artificial intelligence
estimate · 2026-05By region
| Region | Workers | Of the sector | Of its own payroll | Living here | Firms | Since 2005 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitana | 1,057,933 | 73.5% | 18.3% | 150,351 | 34,147 | +245% |
| Valparaíso | 64,535 | 4.5% | 9.5% | 22,274 | 6,115 | +169% |
| Biobío | 58,347 | 4.1% | 10.5% | 19,632 | 5,558 | +122% |
| Maule | 49,210 | 3.4% | 10.3% | 8,202 | 3,542 | +264% |
| Los Lagos | 45,446 | 3.2% | 12.3% | 11,597 | 3,630 | +254% |
| O'Higgins | 45,049 | 3.1% | 10.3% | 9,329 | 3,105 | +194% |
| Antofagasta | 35,415 | 2.5% | 15.4% | 18,691 | 3,015 | +310% |
| Araucanía | 17,736 | 1.2% | 5.8% | 8,925 | 2,958 | +281% |
| Coquimbo | 17,589 | 1.2% | 7.8% | 11,093 | 2,863 | +207% |
| Tarapacá | 10,785 | 0.7% | 9.6% | 5,654 | 1,168 | +296% |
| Ñuble | 9,875 | 0.7% | 6.4% | 5,239 | 1,378 | +97% |
| Atacama | 8,796 | 0.6% | 9.5% | 4,556 | 1,077 | +135% |
| Magallanes | 5,553 | 0.4% | 7.1% | 2,533 | 1,084 | +53% |
| Los Ríos | 4,877 | 0.3% | 4.5% | 4,906 | 1,305 | +25% |
| Arica y Parinacota | 4,251 | 0.3% | 7.8% | 3,006 | 651 | +481% |
| Aysén | 3,291 | 0.2% | 9.3% | 1,054 | 726 | +678% |
"Workers" is SII's count at the firm's registered address; "living here" is Casen's count of employees of this branch who live in the region. They are different measurements of different things and the columns are read side by side, not subtracted. A dash is a cell with fewer than 30 sampled workers.