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Press release No. 496 of 25 November 2022 Number of low-wage jobs down by 0.5 million in April 2022 from April 2018
Nearly one in five persons in dependent employment (19%) worked in the low-wage sector in Germany in April 2022. This means that roughly 7.5 million jobs were low-wage jobs earning less than a gross 12.50 euros per hour. The number of low-paid jobs …
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Press release No. N 008 of 23 February 2022 Minimum wages in the EU: between 332 euros and 2,257 euros in gross terms per month
The statutory minimum wage in Germany has stood at 9.82 euros per hour since 1 January 2022. Arithmetically, this corresponds to a minimum wage level of 1,621 euros per month (in gross terms) for a full-time job. The Federal Statistical Office ( …
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Press release No. 416 of 21 October 2020 8 million low-wage jobs in 2018
Slightly more than one in five persons in dependent employment (21%) worked in the low-wage sector in Germany in April 2018. This means that roughly eight million jobs were low-wage jobs (pay of less than a gross 11.05 euros per hour). The Federal …
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Press release No. 354 of 29 June 2020 Wage differentiation: declining differences in earnings between low-paid and high-paid workers
The earnings gap between low-paid and high-paid workers declined slightly between 2014 and 2018. In 2014 the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reported that the increasing wage differentiation had stopped. The results of the 2018 structure of …
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Press release No. 238 of 29 June 2020 Just under two million jobs benefit from minimum wage increase in 2019
In April 2019, there were 1.4 million jobs in Germany for which workers were paid the statutory minimum wage. That is 3.5% of all jobs in Germany.
The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that, mathematically, for 527,000 jobs (1.3% of …
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Press release No. 060 of 27 February 2020 Number of minimum wage jobs continuously down between 2015 and 2018
In April 2018, there were 930,000 jobs in Germany for which workers were paid the statutory gross minimum wage of 8.84 euros per hour worked. The number of minimum wage jobs more than halved between 2015 and 2018 (2015: 1.91 million jobs). The …
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Press release No. 322 of 14 September 2016 Trend of increasing wage differentiation has stopped
The earnings gap between low-paid and high-paid workers remained nearly constant between 2010 and 2014. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the long-term trend of increasing wage differentiation has stopped. In 2014, the …
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Press release No. 121 of 6 April 2016 4 million jobs covered by minimum wage
In April 2014, that is, not long before the statutory minimum wage was introduced in Germany, the pay for 5.5 million jobs in the country was lower than the new gross minimum wage of 8.50 euros per hour worked. The Federal Statistical Office …
