Press release No. 203 of 14 June 2016
WIESBADEN – At the end of April 2016, nearly 5.4 million people worked in local units of manufacturing with 50 or more persons employed in Germany. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on the basis of provisional results, that was a rise by about 49,000 persons or 0.9% against April 2015.
The number of hours worked in April 2016 increased 4.9% from a year earlier, reaching 723 million – here it has to be considered that there was one working day more than in April 2015.
The earnings amounted to 23.6 billion euros; that was 2.9% more than in April 2015.
Basic data and long time series are available in tables Persons employed and turnover of local units in manufacturing (42111-0002) and 42111-0004 in the GENESIS-Online database.