Press release No. 365 of 16 October 2017
WIESBADEN – At the end of August 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 97,000 persons or 1.8% against August 2016.
The number of hours worked in August 2017 increased 2.8% from a year earlier, reaching 690 million – at equal numbers of working days.
The earnings amounted to 21.9 billion euros; that was 3.6% more than in August 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.