Press release No. 193 of 29 May 2020
WIESBADEN – Agreed earnings in Germany rose by an average of 3.2% in the 1st quarter of 2020 compared with the same quarter a year earlier. The statistics take into account the agreed basic remuneration and agreed extra payments such as one-off payments, annual extra payments or agreed back payments. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that, excluding extra payments, the year-on-year increase was 3.1% in the 1st quarter of 2020. Consumer prices increased by 1.6% over the same period.
Basic data and long time series are available in tables Indices of agreed earnings, weekly working hours (62221-0001), (62221-0002) and Monthly index of agreed earnings and working hours (62231-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database.
