Personnel expenses can be broken down as follows:

In the financial year 2012, wages and salaries shown in personnel expenses include expenses relating to severance payments of €68 million (previous year: €55 million). In addition, wages and salaries reflect restructuring expenses of €119 million (previous year: €42 million), which also contain severance components. Personnel expenses include income from share-based payments totalling €3 million (previous year: €19 million) are also included in wages and salaries.

Annual average number of Group employees:

The above figure includes an absolute number of 76,749 (previous year: 79,229) part-time employees. The percentage of employees working outside of Germany (full-time equivalents) stood at 64.1percent compared to 63.5 percent in the previous year.