Press release No. 442 of 15 November 2018
WIESBADEN – At the end of September 2018, 5.7 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 145,000 persons or 2.6% against September 2017.
The number of hours worked in September 2018 decreased 1.1% from a year earlier, reaching 699 million – here it has to be considered that there was one working day less than in September 2017.
The earnings amounted to 22.9 billion euros; that was 4.7% more than in September 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.
