Press release No. 248 of 15 July 2016
WIESBADEN – At the end of May 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 May 2015.
The number of hours worked in May 2016 increased 3.4% from a year earlier, reaching 653 million – here it has to be considered that the month of May 2016 had up to two working days more in some Länder.
The earnings amounted to 23.9 billion euros; that was –0.2% less than in May 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.