In the fiscal year of 2021, BMW Group employed about 118,909 people worldwide. This figure is considerably lower than that of other vehicle manufacturers: General Motors employed around 157,000 people in 2021.
Global number of BMW Group employees from FY 2006 to FY 2021
As of year-end. Figures exclude dormant employment contracts, employees in the non-work phases of pre-retirement part-time arrangements and low wage earners.
The figures for 2006 to 2016 were taken from previous annual reports. *From 2019 definition of workforce size readjusted to include employees with permanent and fixed-term contracts. Figures prior to 2019 include temporary staff, postgraduate students, interns, apprentices and those on extended sick leave/sabbaticals
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