Statistical Offices of the Länder and the Federal Statistical Office

Earnings, Labour costs – Net labour costs per hour worked in industry and the services sector in 2008 (incl. apprentices)

Regional breakdown	Net labour costs ³⁾ per hour worked in industry and the services sector in 2008 (incl. apprentices)
	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J
	Mining and quarrying	Manu- facturing	Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply	Water supply, sewerage, waste manage- ment ⁴⁾	Construc- tion	Wholesale and retail trade ⁵⁾	Transpor-tation and storage	Accommo-dation and food service activities	Information and communi- cation
	EUR
Baden-Württemberg	30.56	35.25	41.72	23.50	24.93	25.11	22.48	14.71	39.93
Bayern	25.49	34.35	43.64	22.69	22.95	24.38	24.33	15.96	38.96
Berlin	.	35.23	.	.	22.19	20.80	26.53	13.37	35.10
Brandenburg	36.71	22.21	39.48	20.46	17.02	17.31	21.03	11.33	24.82
Bremen	.	37.48	.	.	24.91	23.17	26.33	14.60	30.44
Hamburg	.	37.09	.	29.64	29.06	30.23	30.97	13.82	40.68
Hessen	28.14	35.08	45.41	26.06	23.83	26.15	31.03	17.17	41.36
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	17.93	19.73	34.78	19.80	21.65	16.61	18.18	10.67	24.14
Niedersachsen	39.01	30.77	41.41	23.69	22.41	20.73	21.03	12.88	30.89
Nordrhein-Westfalen	39.58	33.46	46.24	30.57	24.13	24.79	23.29	13.96	39.61
Rheinland-Pfalz	28.32	32.84	40.05	24.17	23.74	22.23	19.90	12.80	38.22
Saarland	.	32.46	43.57	.	22.93	22.19	21.85	13.07	39.37
Sachsen	26.60	20.41	34.63	20.90	18.82	17.09	18.58	11.34	27.54
Sachsen-Anhalt	28.84	20.77	33.72	20.95	17.96	16.87	17.70	10.24	27.93
Schleswig-Holstein	25.95	31.26	38.22	25.06	21.55	22.44	20.27	14.42	30.45
Thüringen	21.33	19.19	32.41	20.16	18.92	16.34	17.40	10.83	25.51
Germany	35.92	32.33	42.76	25.62	22.71	23.37	23.63	14.15	37.49
Western Germany ¹⁾	37.15	33.95	44.08	27.25	23.68	24.27	24.47	14.72	38.52
Eastern Germany ²⁾	29.74	20.36	35.09	20.58	18.72	16.92	18.67	10.98	26.30

Regional breakdown	continued: Net labour costs ³⁾ per hour worked in industry and the services sector in 2008 (incl. apprentices)
	K	L	M	N	O	P	Q	R	S
	Financial and insurance activities	Real estate activities	Professional, scientific and technical activities	Administra- tive and support service activities	Public administra- tion ⁶⁾	Education	Human health and social work activities	Arts, entertain- ment and recreation	Other service activities
	EUR
1) including Berlin 2) without Berlin 3) Results of the Labour Cost Survey; economic activities classified according to WZ 2008 4) Water supply, sewerage, waste management and remediation activities 5) Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles 6) Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
Baden-Württemberg	38.25	26.75	36.87	17.01	29.70	32.07	23.46	26.56	23.00
Bayern	39.93	31.03	35.95	16.98	29.96	32.82	25.11	29.10	25.87
Berlin	42.60	27.44	32.56	15.18	31.15	30.84	23.50	26.93	26.06
Brandenburg	31.61	25.45	24.30	13.15	28.36	28.29	20.61	21.49	15.96
Bremen	44.56	35.81	28.72	13.49	31.33	33.80	25.57	22.32	22.95
Hamburg	45.49	32.97	39.27	19.16	31.97	34.52	26.68	27.00	26.06
Hessen	60.29	41.83	41.90	18.11	30.04	32.64	24.55	26.64	27.78
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern	31.72	23.81	23.36	12.72	27.25	25.58	20.85	18.32	14.90
Niedersachsen	38.64	22.96	30.52	15.41	29.16	30.94	22.52	21.27	20.54
Nordrhein-Westfalen	40.92	31.40	35.25	16.05	30.85	32.09	24.47	28.58	25.36
Rheinland-Pfalz	34.16	28.06	30.38	15.82	30.02	33.37	24.09	24.55	23.64
Saarland	34.05	25.18	28.77	14.28	30.21	32.06	24.47	24.16	23.39
Sachsen	32.15	24.53	24.17	13.07	28.12	26.67	20.65	21.53	14.41
Sachsen-Anhalt	30.10	27.25	21.06	12.10	27.90	26.78	22.73	26.33	18.50
Schleswig-Holstein	38.56	26.51	25.96	14.35	28.76	33.01	22.80	19.81	19.50
Thüringen	29.85	24.42	20.31	12.35	27.31	28.36	22.00	20.57	14.70
Germany	42.34	29.34	34.20	15.80	29.76	31.36	23.68	25.58	23.27
Western Germany ¹⁾	43.23	30.35	35.49	16.40	30.17	32.23	24.16	26.52	24.80
Eastern Germany ²⁾	31.19	25.01	23.11	12.73	27.85	27.13	21.33	21.60	15.72

Explanation of symbols

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