16. Personnel expenses
Personnel expenses can be broken down as follows:
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€ million |
12M 2012 |
9M 2012 |
9M 2013 | ||
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Wages and salaries |
6,124 |
4,575 |
4,414 | ||
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Social security expenses, expenses for post-employment benefits and related employee benefits1 |
1,365 |
1,023 |
1,023 | ||
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thereof post-employment benefits1 |
(66) |
(57) |
(66) | ||
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7,489 |
5,598 |
5,437 | ||
Wages and salaries shown in personnel expenses include expenses relating to severance payments of €55 million (9M 2012: €29 million; 12M 2012: €68 million). In addition, wages and salaries include restructuring expenses of €20 million (9M 2012: €119 million; 12M 2012: €119 million), which also comprise severance components. Wages and salaries also include expenses for share-based payments totalling €7 million (9M 2012: income of €2 million; 12M 2012: income of €3 million).
Annual average number of group employees:
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Number of employees |
12M 2012 |
9M 2012 |
9M 2013 |
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Blue collar/white collar |
278,811 |
277,418 |
269,493 |
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Apprentices/trainees |
9,296 |
9,146 |
9,101 |
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288,107 |
286,564 |
278,594 |
This includes an absolute number of 75,144 (9M 2012: 76,329; 12M 2012: 76,749) part-time employees. The percentage of employees working outside of Germany (full-time equivalents) stood at 63.5 per cent (9M 2012: 64.0 per cent; 12M 2012: 64.1 per cent).