Labour costs, non-wage costs Detailed structure of labour costs in industry and the services sector in 2020

Labour cost survey 2020
Type of costsLabour costs per full-time unit1
Euro%

1: Excluding apprentices.

The complete range of up-to-date information available on the labour cost survey is provided in the GENESIS -database (GENESIS-Online) (only in German).

Total gross labour costs62 632100.0
Compensation of employees62 27399.43
Gross wages and salaries48 03876.70
Gross wages and salaries (excluding apprentices)47 32475.56
Direct remuneration36 20357.80
Bonuses4 1866.68
Payments to employees saving schemes800.13
Payments for days not worked6 27510.02
Wages and salaries in kind5810.93
Gross wages and salaries of apprentices7141.14
Employers' social constributions14 23522.73
Employers' actual social constributions (excluding apprentices)9 89315.80
Statutory social security contributions8 34613.32
Contributions to company pension schemes1 5482.47
Employers' imputed social constributions (excluding apprentices)4 1316.60
Remuneration in the event of sickness2 1333.41
Old-age pension and health care provisions for public servants1 3812.21
Payments to employees leaving the enterprise4140.66
Other optional social constributions of the employer2030.32
Employer's social contributions for apprentices2100.34
Vocational education and training costs2330.37
Other expenditures950.15
Taxes on the sum of wages or on the number of employee310.05
Memorandum item
Wagegrants (wage and salary payments reimbursed to the employer)560.09
Non-wage costs14 59323.30

As at 20 March 2023

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