17. Personnel expenses
Personnel expenses can be broken down as follows:
€ million |
2017/18 |
2018/19 |
|---|---|---|
Wages and salaries |
2,173 |
2,264 |
Social security expenses, expenses for post-employment benefits and related employee benefits |
552 |
552 |
thereof for post-employment benefits |
(43) |
(41) |
|
2,725 |
2,816 |
Wages and salaries include expenses relating to restructuring measures and severance payments of €23 million (2017/18: €19 million). The variable remuneration rose from €52 million in financial year 2017/18 to €81 million in financial year 2018/19. Wages and salaries also include expenses for long-term remunerationcomponents totalling €7 million (2017/18: €16 million).
Annual average number of group employees in the continuing segment:
Number of employees by headcount |
2017/18 |
2018/19 |
|---|---|---|
Blue collar/white collar |
103,072 |
99,843 |
Apprentices/trainees |
1,840 |
1,811 |
|
104,912 |
101,654 |
This includes an absolute number of 16,902 (2017/18: 17,245) part-time employees. The number of employees working outside of Germany stood at 81,607 (2017/18: 84,425). This includes 80,660 blue and white collar employees (2017/18: 83,498). In addition, 947 trainees were employed abroad (2017/18: 927).