Press release No. 170 of 18 May 2020
WIESBADEN – At the end of March 2020, 5.6 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 73,000 persons or 1.3% less than in March 2019.
The number of hours worked in March 2020 decreased 3.4% from a year earlier, reaching 717 million – here it has to be considered that there was one working day more (in Berlin two days more) than in March 2019.
The earnings amounted to 23.8 billion euros; that was 2.1% less than in March 2019.
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.
