Press release No. 096 of 15 March 2017
WIESBADEN – At the end of January 2017, 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 52,000 persons or 1.0% against January 2016.
The number of hours worked in January 2017 increased 5.7% from a year earlier, reaching 704 million – here it has to be considered that there were two working days more than in January 2016.
The earnings amounted to 21.9 billion euros; that was 3.6% more than in January 2016.
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.