Germany: professional & technical activities employees 2021

The number of employees in the professional, scientific, and technical industry in Germany increased by 91,584 employees (+4.49 percent) in 2021 in comparison to the previous year. In total, the number of employees amounted to 2,129,502 employees in 2021.
According to Eurostat employed persons are all persons aged 15 and over who performed work, even for just one hour per week, for pay, profit or family gain during the reference week or were not at work but had a job or business from which they were temporarily absent because of, for instance, illness, holidays, industrial dispute, and education or training.

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Total number of employees in the professional, scientific, and technical activities industry in Germany from 2012 to 2021

Characteristic	Number of employees
2021	2,129,502
2020	2,037,918
2019	2,217,605
2018b	2,144,276
2017	2,264,895
2016	2,191,556
2015	1,986,434
2014	1,936,268
2013	1,772,947
2012	1,686,010

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Release date

March 2024

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Germany

Survey time period

2012 to 2021

Supplementary notes

b: Break in time series.
The source adds the following information: Number of employees is defined as those persons who work for an employer and who have a contract of employment and receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, piecework pay or remuneration in kind. A worker from an employment agency is considered to be an employee of that temporary employment agency and not of the unit (customer) in which they work
Data coverage corresponds to code M of CE Rev 2.

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