Press release No. 143 of 24 March 2021
WIESBADEN – According to final results of the quarterly survey of earnings, the index of nominal earnings in Germany decreased by an average of 0.7% in 2020 compared with a year earlier. The index reflects the development of gross monthly earnings including extra payments. Consumer prices rose by just under 0.5% in the same period. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that real earnings declined by 1.1% compared with 2019. The provisional results published on 17 February 2021 were corrected downwards by 0.1 percentage points.
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.
