Annual earnings 2024: On average, Germans deserve this

52,159 euros – the middle gross annual earnings were so much in Germany in Germany, including special payments last year. Thus, half of the employees earned more than or exactly this amount, while the other half received less. As the Federal Statistical Office continued on Tuesday, the top percent of full -time employees came to a gross annual earnings of 213,286 euros or more. That is around four times as much as median earnings. The ten percent at the lower end of the distribution, on the other hand, received 32,526 euros gross or less.

An alternative calculation on the median value is the average gross annual earnings. This is a gross of 62,235 euros for full -time employees including all special payments. The big difference to the median shows that “particularly high merits influence the average earnings upwards,” as the statisticians explained. Here the sum of the wages paid are shared by the number of recipients. In contrast, the distribution is halved in the median: this means that 50 percent are or below the median.

If all full -time employees are sorted according to the amount of their gross annual earnings, the so -called percentile value indicates how much percent of the employees have earned smaller or equal value. For example, the earnings were 42,000 euros last year, around 30 percent of full -time employees earned the same or less. With earnings of 66,000 euros, the 30 percent were among the highest merits.

The data comes from the merger of earnings and refer to the entire year 2024. Taxable special payments such as vacation or Christmas bonuses are also shown. Only full -time employees were used for the analysis. Likewise, only employment relationships with seven or more work months in the reporting year were used for the calculation.