Press release No. 135 of 15 April 2016
WIESBADEN – At the end of February 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 55,000 persons or 1.0% against February 2015.
The number of hours worked in February 2016 increased 5.6% from a year earlier, reaching 714 million – here it has to be considered that there was one working day more than in February 2015.
The earnings amounted to 20.6 billion euros; that was 3.8% more than in February 2015.
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.