Press release No. 302 of 15 July 2022
Persons employed in manufacturing, May 2022
+0.7% on the same month a year earlier
+0.1% on the previous month
WIESBADEN – At the end of May 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 37,900 persons or 0.7% more than in May 2021.
The number of hours worked in May 2022 increased 8.9% from a year earlier, reaching 693 million – here it has to be considered, that there were two working days more than in May 2021.
The earnings amounted to 27.3 billion euros; that was 7.3% more than in May 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.
