Press 2nd quarter of 2019: real earnings up 1.3% year on year

Press release No. 368 of 20 September 2019

WIESBADEN – The index of nominal earnings in Germany rose by 3.0% in the second quarter of 2019 on the same quarter a year earlier. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that consumer prices increased by 1.6% over the same period. The resulting real (price adjusted) growth in earnings amounted to 1.3%.

Basic data and long time series are available in tables Gross earnings, weekly working hours (62321-0001) and Indices of agreed earnings, weekly working hours (62231-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database.

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