Press release No. 348 of 17 September 2018
WIESBADEN – At the end of July 2018, 5.6 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 150,000 persons or 2.7% against July 2017.
The number of hours worked in July 2018 increased 4.8% from a year earlier, reaching 716 million – here it has to be considered that there was one working day more than in July 2017.
The earnings amounted to 24.3 billion euros; that was 5.8% more than in July 2017.
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.
