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Care workers' salaries in Germany up by one third since 2010


Xinhua
11 May 2021

BERLIN, May 11 (Xinhua) -- Average gross monthly earnings of full-time skilled staff in Germany's hospitals and nursing homes rose by around one third over the past ten years, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) announced on Tuesday.

Earnings of skilled workers in nursing homes in Germany saw the highest rise with an increase of 38.6 percent in 2020 over 2010, according to Destatis, while earnings for full-time professionals in hospitals, such as nurses, rose by 32.9 percent and that for skilled workers in old people's homes rose by 32.8 percent.

The wage increase in nursing professions was "markedly larger" than that for overall industry and services sector which only saw wages go up 21 percent at the same time, Destatis noted.

Germany's healthcare sector was "one of the few industries that was not affected by a decline in employment" during the COVID-19 crisis last year, the Federal Employment Agency (BA) said last week.

Almost 1.8 million employees in healthcare and geriatric care were subject to social insurance contributions in Germany in October 2020, around 43,000 more than a year earlier, according to the latest official data.

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