Press release No. 202 of 16 June 2017
WIESBADEN – At the end of April 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 73,000 persons or 1.4% against April 2016.
The number of hours worked in April 2017 decreased 9.7% from a year earlier, reaching 653 million – here it has to be considered that there were three working days less than in April 2016.
The earnings amounted to 24.5 billion euros; that was 3.9% more than in April 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.