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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....

Press release No. 220 of 30 May 2022 Agreed earnings in the 1^st quarter of 2022: +4.0% on the same quarter of the previous year

...Agreed earnings in Germany rose by an average of 4.0% in the first quarter of 2022, year on year. The result includes the agreed basic remuneration and the extra payments provided for in wage settlements. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that, excluding extra payments, the year-on-year increase amounted to 1.1%. ...

Press release No. 219 of 30 May 2022 Real earnings in 1^st quarter of 2022: -1.8% on the same quarter of the previous year

The high inflation in Germany led to a decrease in real earnings in the first quarter of 2022. The index of nominal earnings in the first quarter of 2022 was up 4.0% on a year earlier according to first provisional results of the new earnings survey …

Press release No. N 008 of 23 February 2022 Minimum wages in the EU: between 332 euros and 2,257 euros in gross terms per month

The statutory minimum wage in Germany has stood at 9.82 euros per hour since 1 January 2022. Arithmetically, this corresponds to a minimum wage level of 1,621 euros per month (in gross terms) for a full-time job. The Federal Statistical Office ( …

Press release No. 504 of 1 November 2021 Nearly 9 in 10 employees covered by collective agreements will receive a Christmas bonus in 2021

...On average, the Christmas bonus of employees covered by collective agreements is 5.5% higher in western Germany (2,695 euros) than in eastern Germany (2,554 euros)....

Press release No. N 026 of 11 May 2022 Number of people working in hospital nursing care up 18% in ten years

...To mark International Nurses Day on 12 May, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that just under 486,100 people worked in hospital nursing care in Germany on 31 December 2020. This was an increase of 18% compared with ten years earlier. The majority of them (434,400 nurses and auxiliary staff or 89%) had undergone specific nursing training. Almost half (49%) of the people employed in nursing care worked part-time – a total of 238,000 persons....

Press release No. N 023 of 4 May 2022 Truck traffic: one third of all professional drivers are aged 55 or over

...The current shortage of supplies and the problems regarding global supply chains have drawn the attention to the importance professional drivers have for keeping the economy running – about three quarters of the transport performance in freight transport is achieved on the road, according to most recent figures. In Germany, roughly 480,000 people worked in this occupation in 2021. Many of them are expected to retire in the next few years. More than one third (35%) were aged 55 or over, as reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). ...

Press release No. 080 of 1 March 2022 Agreed earnings in 2021 up 1.3% on the previous year

...Agreed earnings in Germany rose by an average 1.3% in 2021 compared with the annual average of 2020. This is shown by the index of agreed monthly earnings including extra payments. The provisional result published by press release on 16 December 2021 is thus confirmed. ...

Press release No. 065 of 16 February 2022 Real earnings expected to be down 0.1% in 2021 year on year

...According to provisional results of the quarterly survey of earnings, the index of nominal earnings in Germany increased by an annual average of just under 3.1% in 2021 compared with a year earlier. The index reflects the development of gross monthly earnings including extra payments. Consumer prices rose by just over 3.1% in the same period. ...

Press release No. 127 of 24 March 2022 Real earnings down 0.1% in 2021 year on year

According to final results of the quarterly survey of earnings, the index of nominal earnings in Germany increased by just under 3.1% in 2021 compared with a year earlier. The index reflects the development of gross monthly earnings including extra …

Press release No. 164 of 29 April 2019 Labour costs in the EU: Germany ranked sixth again in 2018

...Time series on labour costs in Germany in a breakdown by economic branch are available in the GENESIS-Online database under the search word “Jahresschätzung Arbeitskosten”. Further official EU statistics are available under "Europe in Figures"....