Press release No. 407 of 17 October 2019
WIESBADEN – In 2017 a total of 554,000 enterprises active in the German crafts sector employed 5.2 million persons. Almost 3.9 million of them were employed subject to social insurance contribution. Roughly 718,000 were employed in marginal employment. As the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) further reports, these enterprises realised a turnover of about 574 billion Euros.
Information about the number of enterprises, turnover and persons employed in the German crafts sector is published annually. It can be obtained from the GENESIS-Online Database tables Census of Crafts (53111). Detailed information on federal state level is published by the statistical offices of the Länder.
