Xinhua, Berlin :
German manufacturing industry continued a hiring spree in April, figures by the Federal Statistical Office showed on Friday.
According to Wiesbaden-based government agency, 5.6 million people were employed by German manufacturing firms with a headcount of at least 50 staff at the end of April.
It marked a 2.7 percent increase compared to April 2017 and the highest overall employment since the beginning of official measurements by the Federal Statistical Office in 2005.
The fastest rate of increase in staff numbers was recorded in firms producing data processing-, electronic- and optical devices (plus 4.1 percent), followed by engineering products (plus 3.4 percent) and metal products (plus 3.3 percent).
The number of hours worked in the German manufacturing industry rose 9.5 percent from a year earlier, to 712 million hours, while the earnings rose by 5.7 percent to a total of 25.9 billion euros (30 million U.S. dollars).
German manufacturing industry continued a hiring spree in April, figures by the Federal Statistical Office showed on Friday.
According to Wiesbaden-based government agency, 5.6 million people were employed by German manufacturing firms with a headcount of at least 50 staff at the end of April.
It marked a 2.7 percent increase compared to April 2017 and the highest overall employment since the beginning of official measurements by the Federal Statistical Office in 2005.
The fastest rate of increase in staff numbers was recorded in firms producing data processing-, electronic- and optical devices (plus 4.1 percent), followed by engineering products (plus 3.4 percent) and metal products (plus 3.3 percent).
The number of hours worked in the German manufacturing industry rose 9.5 percent from a year earlier, to 712 million hours, while the earnings rose by 5.7 percent to a total of 25.9 billion euros (30 million U.S. dollars).
