The personnel costs of the information sector in Germany decreased by 1.4 billion euros (-8.79 percent) in 2021 in comparison to the previous year. Nevertheless, the last two years in this industry recorded significant higher personnel costs than the preceding years. Personnel costs are made up of wages, salaries and employers' social security costs. They include taxes and employees' social security contributions retained by the employer, as well as the employer's compulsory and voluntary social contributions.
b: Break in time series. The source adds the following information: Personnel costs are defined as the total remuneration, in cash or in kind, payable by an employer to an employee (regular and temporary employees as well as home workers) in return for work done by the latter during the reference period. Personnel costs also include taxes and employees' social security contributions retained by the unit as well as the employer's compulsory and voluntary social contributions. Personnel costs are made up of wages and salaries and employers' social security costs. Data coverage corresponds to aggregate INF of CE Rev2.
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Eurostat. (March 22, 2024). Personnel costs of the information sector in Germany from 2012 to 2021 (in million euros) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 09, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/421788/personnel-costs-information-sector-germany/
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