Press release No. 052 of 15 February 2019
WIESBADEN – At the end of December 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 140,000 persons or 2.5% against December 2017.
The number of hours worked in December 2018 decreased 1.2% from a year earlier, reaching 604 million – at equal numbers of working days.
The earnings amounted to 24.1 billion euros; that was 4.3% more than in December 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.
