Press release No. 278 of 15 August 2017
WIESBADEN – At the end of June 2017, 5.5 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 88,000 persons or 1.6% against June 2016.
The number of hours worked in June 2017 decreased 6.3% from a year earlier, reaching 685 million – here it has to be considered that the month of June 2017 had up to two working days less in some Länder.
The earnings amounted to 24.8 billion euros; that was 2.9% more than in June 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.