Press release No. 015 of 15 January 2018
WIESBADEN – At the end of November 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 116,000 persons or 2.1% against November 2016.
The number of hours worked in November 2017 increased 1.7% from a year earlier, reaching 748 million – at equal numbers of working days.
The earnings amounted to 29.3 billion euros; that was 3.6% more than in November 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.
