Press release No. 095 of 15 March 2016
WIESBADEN – At the end of January 2016, 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 56,000 persons or 1.1% against January 2015.
The number of hours worked in January 2016 decreased 1.6% from a year earlier, reaching 665 million – here it has to be considered that there was one working day less than in January 2015.
The earnings amounted to 21.2 billion euros; that was 3.5% more than in January 2015.