WIESBADEN- At the end of November 2016, 5.4 million people worked in local units of manufacturing with 50 or more persons employed in Germany. As reported by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) on the basis of provisional results, that was a rise by about 40,000 persons or 0.7% against November 2015.
The number of hours worked in November 2016 increased 1.1% from a year earlier, reaching 732 million - here it has to be considered that the month of November 2016 had one working day more in some Länder.
The earnings amounted to 28.1 billion euros; that was 2.6% more than in November 2015.
Basic data and long time series are available in tables Persons employed and turnover of local units in manufacturing 42111-0002 and 42111-0004 in the GENESIS-Onlinedatabase.
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