The Germany subscription is also available as a job ticket variant: If the employer gives a 25 percent discount on the public transport subscription, the federal government gives another five percent. Employees of large cities save in this way.
According to a survey, many large cities offer their employees the Deutschlandticket in the discounted job ticket version. Of 83 large cities in Germany surveyed, 63 said they made such an offer to their employees, as the environmental organization Greenpeace announced on Friday. She made a corresponding request to the 100 largest German cities, to which more than 80 responded. “17 of the 83 responding cities do not yet offer it and do not want to change this in the short term,” it said. “Three more say they will introduce it in the next six months.”
However, there are differences in the amount of funding. Basically, the following applies to the Deutschlandticket: If the employer grants employees a minimum subsidy of 25 percent of the issue price, the federal government covers a further five percent. At the current full subscription price of 49 euros per month, employees could save up to 14.70 euros with the job ticket.
But many cities give their employees an even greater discount. Employees in the cities of Mainz and Freiburg, for example, only pay nine euros to use public transport throughout Germany, according to Greenpeace. “The city of Munich even covers the costs for its employees in full.”
The Deutschlandticket was introduced on May 1, 2023 and has since enabled nationwide travel on local and regional buses and trains. The Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) took another stock on Thursday shortly before the one-year anniversary of the Deutschlandticket. According to this, an average of around 11.2 million people used the public transport subscription per month in the first year. Around 17 percent of these were job tickets.
Source: Stern
