Press release No. 023 of 17 January 2023
Persons employed in manufacturing, November 2022
+1.2% on the same month a year earlier
+0.1% on the previous month
WIESBADEN – At the end of November 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 65,200 persons or 1.2% more than in November 2021.
The number of hours worked in November 2022 increased 2.2% from a year earlier, reaching 720 million – at equal numbers of working days.
The earnings amounted to 31.5 billion euros in November 2022. In the past 12 months (December 2021 to November 2022), the earnings increased by 4.7% compared to the same period last year.
Basic data and long time series are available in tables Persons employed and turnover of local units in manufacturing (42111-0002) and (42111-0004) in the GENESIS-Online database.
