Press Number of employees in manufacturing in August 2019: +0.4% year on year

Press release No. 403 of 15 October 2019

WIESBADEN – At the end of August 2019, 5.7 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 21,000 persons or 0.4% against August 2018.

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The number of hours worked in August 2019 decreased 3.7% from a year earlier, reaching 676 million – here it has to be considered that there was one working day less than in August 2018.

The earnings amounted to 23.5 billion euros; that was 1.9% more than in August 2018.

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.

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