Press release No. 187 of 29 May 2018
WIESBADEN – Agreed earnings in Germany rose an average 2.5% in the first quarter of 2018, year on year. The items included in the calculation were agreed basic remuneration and agreed extra payments such as one-off payments, annual extra payments or agreed back payments. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that, excluding extra payments, the year-on-year increase in the first quarter of 2018 was 2.3%. Consumer prices were up 1.6% over the same period.
Basic data and long time series are available in tables Indices of agreed earnings, weekly working hours (62221-0001), (62221-0003) and Monthly index of agreed earnings and working hours (62231-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database.
