17. Personnel expenses
Personnel expenses can be broken down as follows:
€ million |
2018/19 |
2019/20 |
|---|---|---|
Wages and salaries |
2,264 |
2,256 |
Social security expenses, expenses for post-employment benefits |
552 |
537 |
thereof for post-employment benefits |
(41) |
(37) |
|
2,816 |
2,793 |
Wages and salaries include expenses relating to restructuring measures and severance payments of €84 million (2018/19: €23 million). The variable remuneration dropped from €81 million in financial year 2018/19 to €66 million in financial year 2019/20. Wages and salaries also include expenses for long-term remuneration components totalling €13 million (2018/19: €7 million).
Annual average number of group employees in the continuing segment:
Number of employees by headcount |
2018/19 |
2019/20 |
|---|---|---|
Blue collar/white collar |
99,843 |
95,906 |
Apprentices/trainees |
1,811 |
1,733 |
|
101,654 |
97,639 |
This includes an absolute number of 16,160 (2018/19: 16,902) part-time employees. The number of employees working outside of Germany stood at 78,199 (2018/19: 81,607). This includes 77,341 blue- and white-collar employees (2018/19: 80,660). In addition, 858 trainees were employed abroad (2018/19: 947).
- The personnel figures for discontinued operations are explained in no. 43 – discontinued operations.