Press release No. 017 of 15 January 2016
WIESBADEN – At the end of November 2015, nearly 5.4 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 a rise by about 54,000 persons or 1.0% against November 2014.
The number of hours worked in November 2015 increased 4.0% from a year earlier, reaching 724 million – here it has to be considered that there were one working day more than in November 2014.
The earnings amounted to 27.2 billion euros; that was 2.5% more than in November 2014.