Construction wages and salaries in Germany increased slightly in 2023. According to the latest figures, the annual labor costs amounted to roughly 48,620 euros per employee in 2021. However, labor costs increased in the two following years. In 2021, Norway was one of the countries with the highest construction labor costs in Europe.
Labor costs per employee and year-to-year growth rate of wages and salaries in the construction industry in Germany from 2010 to 2023
Labor cost figures in thousands of euros are for full-time equivalent employees from 2021 onwards.
Supplementary notes
The personnel costs per employee from 2010 to 2020 were directly obtained from Eurostat, while the figures for 2021 were obtained from another table in Eurostat. The year-over-year growth rate was calculated using the quarterly cost index figures. That last indicator was calculated by averaging the quarterly data and calculating the annual growth rate.
The time series of the cost per employee was broken in 2018 and 2021, while the figures for the quarterly cost index were provisional.
*It does not include data for the 4th quarter of 2023.
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