Press release No. 048 of 15 February 2016
WIESBADEN – At the end of December 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 55,000 persons or 1.0% against December 2014.
The number of hours worked in December 2015 increased 2.7% from a year earlier, reaching 618 million – here it has to be considered that there was one working day more than in December 2014.
The earnings amounted to 21.7 billion euros; that was 3.8% more than in December 2014.