Press release No. 247 of 15 June 2022
Persons employed in manufacturing, April 2022
+0.6% on the same month a year earlier
0.0% on the previous month
WIESBADEN – At the end of April 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 33,400 persons or 0.6% more than in April 2021.
The number of hours worked in April 2022 decreased 4.7% from a year earlier, reaching 645 million – here it has to be considered, that there was one working day less than in April 2021.
The earnings amounted to 26.5 billion euros; that was 6.5% more than in April 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.
