Press release No. 323 of 15 September 2016
WIESBADEN – At the end of July 2016, 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 41,000 persons or 0.8% against July 2015.
The number of hours worked in July 2016 decreased 6.8% from a year earlier, reaching 673 million – here it has to be considered that there were two working days less than in July 2015.
The earnings amounted to 22.2 billion euros; that was 2.6% more than in July 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.