Press release No. 169 of 14 April 2022
Persons employed in manufacturing, February 2022
+0.7% on the same month a year earlier
+0.4% on the previous month
WIESBADEN – At the end of February 2022, 5.5 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 39,400 persons or 0.7% more than in February 2021.
The number of hours worked in February 2022 was unchanged from a year earlier, reaching 681 million – at equal numbers of working days.
The earnings amounted to 24.8 billion euros; that was 10.6% more than in February 2021.
Basic data and long time series are available in the tables on Persons employed and turnover of local units in manufacturing (42111-0002) and (42111-0004) in the GENESIS-Online database.
