17. Personnel expenses
Personnel expenses can be broken down as follows:
€ million |
|
2016/17 |
|
2017/18 |
Wages and salaries |
|
2,363 |
|
2,294 |
Social security expenses, expenses for post-employment benefits and related employee benefits |
|
590 |
|
600 |
thereof for post-employment benefits |
|
(29) |
|
(43) |
|
|
2,953 |
|
2,894 |
Wages and salaries include expenses relating to restructuring measures and severance payments of €20 million (2016/17: €31 million). Variable remuneration declined from €68 million in financial year 2016/17 to €52 million in financial year 2017/18. Wages and salaries also include expenses for long-term remuneration components totalling €18 million (2016/17: €29 million).
The discontinued operations incurred personnel expenses in the amount of €1,033 million (2016/17: €1,063 million).
Annual average number of group employees in the continued segment:
Number of employees by headcount |
|
2016/17 |
|
2017/18 |
Blue collar/white collar |
|
117,086 |
|
115,008 |
Apprentices/trainees |
|
2,213 |
|
2,070 |
|
|
119,299 |
|
117,078 |
This includes an absolute number of 17,270 (2016/17: 17,821) part-time employees. The number of employees working outside of Germany stood at 96,592 (2016/17: 98,557). This includes 95,434 blue- and white-collar employees (2016/17: 97,316). An additional 1,158 (2016/17: 1,241) apprentices were employed outside of Germany.
In addition, 34,280 blue- and white-collar employees (2016/17: 34,691) and 1,068 apprentices/trainees (2016/17: 1,092) were employed in the discontinued segment.