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 in the time comparison, Germany

Continuous household budget surveys (LWR)

Income, receipts and expenditure of households1 in the time comparison2
Germany
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 income4,3374,4744,7344,7154,979
Gross income from employment2,7512,8643,0632,9793,136
Gross income from dependent employment2,7182,8313,0302,9583,104
Gross income from self-employment3333332132
Property income421437404410434
Income from public transfer payments9619801,0311,0751,155
Income from non-public transfer payments and receipts from subletting205193236252253
Minus:
Taxes and expenses1,0581,1141,1981,1431,213
Income tax, wage tax, church tax and solidarity surcharge475500553516538
Compulsory social security contributions583615644627675
Plus:
Employers’ subsidies towards voluntary or private health insurance and towards long-term care insurance in cases of voluntary or private health insurance3337413744
Subsidies of pension insurance funds towards voluntary or private health insurance23333
Net household income3,3143,3993,5803,6123,813
Plus:
Receipts from selling goods and other receipts6061656967
Disposable income and receipts3,3743,4613,6453,6813,880
Income from property change and loans9138491,0181,0871,053
Private consumption expenditure2,4802,5172,5742,5072,623
Other expenditure1,6981,6781,9592,0492,171

As at December 2, 2022

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Sample Survey of Income and Expenditure (EVS)

Income, receipts and expenditure of households in Germany
Income, receipts and expenditure199820032008 20132018

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

2: 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 income3,2993,5613,707| 4,0864,846
Gross income from employ­ment2,0072,0722,295| 2,5803,122
Gross income from dependent employ­ment1,7821,8622,056| 2,3162,817
Gross income from self-employ­ment225210239264304
Property income390399385415458
Income from public transfer pay­ments761906842893993
Income from non-public transfer pay­ments and receipts from sub­letting140185184198272
minus:
Taxes and social charges6837287939841,222
Income tax, wage tax, church tax and solidarity surcharge355370416458580
Compulsory social security contri­butions1328358377| 526642
plus:
Employers’ subsidies towards voluntary or private health insu­rance and towards long-term care insu­rance in cases of volun­tary or private health insu­rance- - - | 2634
Subsidies of pension insu­rance funds towards volun­tary or private health insu­rance- - - | 33
Net household income2,6152,8332,914| 3,1323,661
plus:
Receipts from selling goods and other receipts4851514865
Dispo­sable income and receipts2,6642,8852,965| 3,1803,726
Income from property change and loans8028071,0159781,124
Private consump­tion expen­diture2,0612,1772,2452,4482,704
Other expen­diture1,4501,5121,746| 1,6742,069
memo­randum item:
Remaining expen­diture2287386408413484
Savings316321312319539

As at February 28, 2020

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