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Date: June 16, 2025 Quality Report - Earnings Survey

Quality Report - Earnings Survey

Purpose of the statistics: Data input for several sets of short-term economic and structural statistics, representation of short-term trends in gross earnings and working hours (by sex and requirement level) as well …

Date: April 3, 2025 Collective bargaining coverage

Tables on the subject: Collective bargaining coverage, by enterprises and economic branch, in Germany 2024

Date: April 3, 2025 Collective bargaining coverage

Tables on the subject: Collective bargaining coverage, by enterprises and economic branch, in Germany 2024

Date: January 23, 2025 Unadjusted Gender Pay Gap (GPG) by Länder

Tables on the subject: Gender Pay Gap by Länder 2014 to 2024 (unadjusted)

Date: January 30, 2023 Unadjusted Gender Pay Gap (GPG) by Länder

Tables on the subject: Gender Pay Gap by Länder 2014 to 2022 (unadjusted)

Date: August 2, 2019 Gender Pay Gap by länder from 2006 to 2013 (unadjusted)

Tables on the subject: Gender Pay Gap by länder from 2006 to 2013 (unadjusted)

Date: August 2, 2019 Gender Pay Gap by länder from 2006 to 2013 (unadjusted)

Tables on the subject: Gender Pay Gap by länder from 2006 to 2013 (unadjusted)

Press release No. 036 of 30 January 2023 Gender pay gap 2022: hourly earnings of women 18% lower than those of men

...When measurement started in 2006, the gender pay gap was 23%. The unadjusted gender pay gap in eastern Germany is still markedly smaller than in western Germany. In 2022 it was 7% in eastern Germany and 19% in western Germany (2006: eastern Germany: 6%, western Germany: 24%)....

Press release No. 209 of 31 May 2023 Agreed earnings in 1^st quarter of 2023 up 2.7% year on year

...Agreed earnings in Germany rose by an average of 2.7% in the first quarter of 2023 compared with the same quarter a year earlier. This is shown by the index of agreed monthly earnings including extra payments. Agreed earnings excluding extra payments rose by 2.5% compared with the same quarter of the previous year. ...

Press release No. N 020 of 23 March 2023 Short-distance transport: Proportion of the 55 plus age group among bus and tram drivers above average

...Smoothly running short-distance transport is crucial for the envisaged transformation of mobility. This requires bus and tram drivers especially for the introduction of the Germany ticket in public short-distance passenger transport. However, many of the roughly 137,000 people in that job in Germany will probably withdraw from economic activity in the next few years. In 2021, just over one third (36%) of the bus and tram drivers were aged 55 or over. ...

Date: June 1, 2023 Collective agreements

Tables on the subject: Selected agreed pay rises

Press release No. 166 of 27 April 2023 After revision: real earnings down 4.0% in 2022 from 2021

...According to revised results, nominal earnings in Germany rose by an annual average of 2.6% in 2022 on a year earlier. The increase is 0.9 percentage points lower than published on 1 March 2023 on the old basis. On account of the redesign of the earnings survey with data collection starting in January 2022, the indices of nominal and real earnings have now been rebased to 2022 and earlier results revised. ...

Press release No. 481 of 16 November 2022 Christmas bonus in 2022 for just under 86% of employees covered by collective agreements

...On average, the Christmas bonus of employees covered by collective agreements is 6% higher in western Germany (2,768 euros) than in eastern Germany (2,611 euros)....

Press release No. 081 of 2 March 2023 Agreed earnings in 2022 up 2.2% on the previous year

Agreed earnings in Germany rose by an average 2.2% in 2022 compared with the annual average of 2021. This is shown by the index of agreed monthly earnings including extra payments. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that agreed …

Press release No. 078 of 1 March 2023 Real earnings down 3.1% in 2022 year on year

...The index of nominal earnings in Germany rose by 3.5% in 2022 compared with a year earlier. The index reflects the development of gross monthly earnings of employees including extra payments. .The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that real earnings in 2022 thus decreased by 3.1% compared with 2021, following their previous downward trend in the last two crisis years. ...

Press release No. 496 of 25 November 2022 Number of low-wage jobs down by 0.5 million in April 2022 from April 2018

...The share of low-wage jobs as a proportion of all employment relationships thus fell from 21% to 19% in Germany as a whole. The pay gap between low-paid and high-paid workers, however, remained almost unchanged....

Press release No. 497 of 29 November 2022 High inflation led to a 5.7% decrease in real earnings in the 3^rd quarter of 2022

...The continuing high inflation in Germany again led to a decrease in real earnings in the third quarter of 2022. The index of nominal earnings was up 2.3% in the third quarter of 2022 on a year earlier according to provisional results of the new earnings survey but consumer prices rose 8.4% in the same period. ...

Press release No. 048 of 7 February 2023 Real earnings down 4.1% in 2022 year on year

...According to provisional results of the earnings survey, the index of nominal earnings in Germany increased by an annual average of 3.4% in 2022 compared with a year earlier. The index reflects the development of gross monthly earnings of employees including extra payments. This has been the largest increase in nominal earnings since the beginning of the time series in 2008. ...

Press release No. 361 of 29 August 2022 High inflation led to a 4.4% decrease in real earnings in the 2^nd quarter of 2022

The continuing high inflation in Germany again led to a decrease in real earnings in the second quarter of 2022. The index of nominal earnings was up 2.9% in the second quarter of 2022 on a year earlier according to provisional results of the new …

Press release No. 088 of 7 March 2022 Gender pay gap 2021: hourly earnings of women again 18% lower than those of men

...The difference had been 4.16 euros a year earlier. The gender pay gap has declined in Germany in the past 15 years. It stood at 23% in 2006, which was five percentage points higher than in 2021....