This page will no longer be updated. It contains results from the continuous household budget surveys and the sample survey of income and expenditure up to the 2021 survey year.

The European EU-SILC survey is the official main data source for measuring income, the risk of poverty and living conditions. Therefore, current results for household income can be found under income, living conditions, risk of poverty.

Current results for household expenditure from the continuous household budget surveys and the sample survey of income and expenditure can be found under consumption expenditure.

Receipts, expenditure Income, receipts and expenditure of households, Former territory

Continuous household budget surveys (LWR)

Income, receipts and expenditure of households1 in the time comparison2
Former territory of the Federal Republic excluding Berlin-West
Income, receipts and expenditure20162017201920202021

1: Excluding households of farmers and self-employed persons as well as households with a monthly net household income of EUR 18,000 and over.
2: In the year 2018 not part of the survey.

Source: Continuous household budget surveys.

Averages per household and month in EUR
Gross household income4,5554,6874,9504,9165,173
Gross income from employment2,8933,0053,2113,1093,257
Gross income from dependent employment2,8572,9693,1753,0843,221
Gross income from self-employment3637362436
Property income471486449450474
Income from public transfer payments9639841,0351,0751,162
Income from non-public transfer payments and receipts from subletting227212256283282
Minus:
Taxes and expenses1,1241,1781,2661,2011,270
Income tax, wage tax, church tax and solidarity surcharge514536593548570
Compulsory social security contributions610641672652701
Plus:
Employers’ subsidies towards voluntary or private health insurance and towards long-term care insurance in cases of voluntary or private health insurance3742464148
Subsidies of pension insurance funds towards voluntary or private health insurance33434
Net household income3,4703,5543,7343,7603,955
Plus:
Receipts from selling goods and other receipts6563667169
Disposable income and receipts3,5353,6173,8013,8324,024
Income from property change and loans9889151,1421,2121,155
Private consumption expenditure2,5872,6202,6682,6002,703
Other expenditure1,8231,7932,1452,2242,349

As at December 2, 2022

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Sample Survey of Income and Expenditure (EVS)

Income, receipts and expenditure of households
Former territory of the Federal Republic excluding Berlin-West1
Income, receipts and expenditure19982003200820132018

1: Until 2009: Former territory of the Federal Republic including Berlin-West, from 2010: Former territory of the Federal Republic excluding Berlin-West.

2: Since 1 January 2009 including contri­butions to private health insu­rance and voluntary contri­butions to statutory health insu­rance.

3: Other taxes, voluntary contri­butions to statutory pension, insu­rance premiums, other transfers and expen­ditures, interest paid on loans, and statisti­cal difference.

| = Funda­mental change within a series affecting compari­sons over time.

– = No figures or magni­tude zero.

Source: Sample Survey of Income and Expenditure.

Averages per household and month in EUR
Gross household income3,4523,7293,899| 4,3215,086
Gross income from employ­ment2,1092,1912,426| 2,7423,290
Gross income from dependent employ­ment1,8661,9612,165| 2,4512,963
Gross income from self-employ­ment243230261291328
Property income439438425464508
Income from public transfer pay­ments748897846898990
Income from non-public transfer pay­ments and receipts from sub­letting156203202218297
minus:
Taxes and social charges7197728431,0571,298
Income tax, wage tax, church tax and solidarity surcharge385404454504628
Compulsory social security contri­butions2334368389| 553670
plus:
Employers’ subsidies towards voluntary or private health insu­rance and towards long-term care insu­rance in cases of volun­tary or private health insu­rance- - - | 3038
Subsidies of pension insu­rance funds towards volun­tary or private health insu­rance- - - | 44
Net household income2,7332,9573,056| 3,2973,830
plus:
Receipts from selling goods and other receipts5356555069
Disposable income and receipts2,7853,0133,111| 3,3473,899
Income from property change and loans8768741,1011,0641,231
Private consump­tion expen­diture2,1442,2572,3332,5562,802
Other expen­diture1,5631,6331,887| 1,8192,247
memo­randum item:
Remaining expen­diture3311411443441513
Savings330344335350584

As at February 28, 2020

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