Press release No. 486 of 16 December 2019
WIESBADEN – At the end of September 2019, 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 about 9,000 persons or 0.2% less than in October 2018.
The number of hours worked in October 2019 decreased 2.7% from a year earlier, reaching 733 million – at equal numbers of working days.
The earnings amounted to 23.8 billion euros; that was 0.7% more than in October 2018.
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.
