Press release No. 062 of 15 February 2023
Persons employed in manufacturing, December 2022
+1.3% on the same month a year earlier
-0.2% on the previous month
2022
+0.8% on the previous year
WIESBADEN – At the end of December 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 69,700 persons or 1.3% more than in December 2021.
The number of hours worked in December 2022 decreased 0.6% from a year earlier, reaching 600 million – here it has to be considered, that there were two working days less than in December 2021.
On average, the number of employees increased by 0.8% to 5.5 million in 2022. The number of hours worked increased 0.4% from 2021, reaching 8.1 billion. The earnings amounted to 310 billion euros in 2022; that was 5,1% more than in 2021.
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.
