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Earnings and labour costs

A full-time employee in industry and services in Germany earned a gross EUR 41,509 on average in 2008. That was 2.8% more than in 2007. In the new Länder, the increase in earnings (+3.0% to EUR 30,151) was slightly larger than in the former territory of the Federal Republic (+2.8% to EUR 43,310). Employees in eastern Germany thus reached 70% of the earnings level in western Germany.

 

Women earned 23% less than men in 2006

Average gross hourly earnings of women were EUR 13.91 in Germany in 2006 and hence 23% below average gross hourly earnings of men, which were EUR 17.99.

The highest pay differential between women and men in 2006 was recorded for enterprise-related services (30%), the credit and insurance industry (29%), and for manufacturing (28%). Low pay differenttials between the genders were observed for mining (5%), transport and communication (9%), and hotels and restaurants (13%). However, only 7% of all women worked in those three industries. There was no industry in which women earned more than men on average.




 


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