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.