Press release No. 188 of 16 May 2023
Persons employed in manufacturing, March 2023
+1.6% on the same month a year earlier
+0.5% on the previous month
WIESBADEN – At the end of March 2023, 5.6 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 87,200 persons or 1.6% more than in March 2022. The last time such a high increase in employment was achieved was in March 2019 (91,200 or 1.6%).
The number of hours worked in March 2023 increased 2.8% from a year earlier, reaching 766 million – at almost equal numbers of working days (Mecklenburg western Pomerania had one working day less).
The earnings amounted to 25.9 billion euros in March 2023. In the past 12 months (April 2022 to March 2023), the earnings increased by 5.1% 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.
