17. Personnel expenses

Personnel expenses can be broken down as follows:

€ million

2019/20

2020/21

Wages and salaries

2,256

2,229

Social security expenses, expenses for post-employment benefits and related employee benefits

537

539

(thereof for post-employment benefits)

(37)

(42)

 

2,793

2,768

Wages and salaries include expenses relating to restructuring measures and severance payments of €85 million (2019/20: €84 million). The variable remuneration rose from €66 million in financial year 2019/20 to €119 million in financial year 2020/21. Wages and salaries also include expenses for long-term remuneration components totalling €17 million (2019/20: €13 million).

Annual average number of group employees:

Number of employees by headcount

2019/20

2020/21

Blue collar/white collar

95,906

93,344

Apprentices/trainees

1,733

1,797

 

97,639

95,141

This includes an absolute number of 15,422 (2019/20: 16,160) part-time employees. The number of employees working outside of Germany stood at 76,597 (2019/20: 78,199). This includes 75,660 blue- and white-collar employees (2019/20: 77,341). In addition, 937 (2019/20: 858) trainees were trained abroad.