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Supermarkets and discounters in comparison: Lidl and Aldi really pay that much salary

2020-04-06T14:39:41.040Z


Food retail is considered systemically important in the Corona crisis. But how much do employees at Lidl, Aldi, Rewe, Edeka and Kaufland earn at all?


Food retail is considered systemically important in the Corona crisis. But how much do employees at Lidl, Aldi, Rewe, Edeka and Kaufland earn at all?

  • Lidl, Aldi, Rewe, Edeka and Kaufland are employers for many employees - even in the Corona crisis * .
  • How much do the employees at the individual dealers compare?
  • The job portal Glassdoor has evaluated data. Here is the result.

Employees in the discounter - this is how high Lidl and Aldi are

In the Corona crisis *, the food retail trade is considered systemically important for basic services. Last but not least, the employees * in the supermarkets ensure that we can continue to buy food despite the initial restrictions.

How well do employees at individual retailers earn? This is the question pursued by the Glassdoor job portal, which, according to its own information, evaluated current salary information (in the period from August 1, 2018 to July 31, 2019) of professionals in the food retail sector.

This resulted in a ranking of the five chains in Germany that pay their employees the highest basic salaries (gross) in Germany, as the portal currently reports. One of the results is: " Lidl is at the top with a gross annual salary of 41,780 euros." The median of the salary information on Glassdoor is decisive for the order.

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The discounters Lidl and Aldi are, according to the portal, "top in terms of payment in the food retail sector": "While Lidl with a gross annual salary of 41,780 euros distances itself quite clearly from the competition, Aldi with 37,780 euros and Rewe with 37,224 euros are head to head -Race for second place. "

Glassdoor also reports on the evaluation: " Edeka with € 27,269 and Kaufland with € 26,777 land quite clearly behind the other players." Depending on the profession and area of ​​responsibility, earnings can vary greatly, however, the experts concede. While a sales manager at Lidl could earn an average of EUR 83,134 gross annually, a seller had to make do with around 29,000 EUR according to the salary information on Glassdoor.

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Food retail: Other industries better paid

There has been a lot of discussion about the level of salaries in the food retail trade in the last few weeks - "and in fact it is rather low compared to other industries", the portal takes stock and makes a comparison: The Finnish telecommunications company Nokia , the company according to Glassdoor currently highest gross basic salary in Germany, pays its employees a median of EUR 93,440 annually, more than twice as much as Lidl. Deutsche Bank, as the "prime" in terms of salary among financial companies, still transfers EUR 68,544 gross per year to its employees, the statement said.

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According to Glassdoor, another aspect is "also remarkable": "According to the evaluation, all the companies in the food retail sector are below the average gross basic salary of full-time employees in Germany, which was 47,928 euros in 2019."

According to the portal, this "large gap" between earning potential and the current importance that all employees in the industry have "has probably also caused a large number of supermarket chains to pay extra bonus payments in view of the Corona crisis *". For example, Rewe has announced payments totaling EUR 20 million, reports Glassdoor.de. "The Schwarz Group also wants to reward its employees for their efforts." As reported, the Federal Minister of Finance has announced that bonuses of 1,500 euros per employee could be treated tax-free.

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Felix Altmann, a career expert at Glassdoor, emphasizes: "Now employers can use appreciation, also of a financial nature , to lay the foundations for a lasting change in the perception of the industry. Then the jobs without question could soon be perceived not only as systemically relevant and crisis-proof , but also arouse desires among talents in normal times. "

With regard to the methodology of the above-mentioned evaluation, Glassdoor specifically states: "The analysis of the ranking has included salary information on Glassdoor that was submitted to the companies by employees in Germany between August 1, 2018 and July 31, 2019. This serves as a measure of the order The median of all gross basic salaries specified for the respective company. Using the salary information, which is located in the middle of all information (median), prevents distortions due to very high or low salary information. To be considered, companies had to submit at least 25 salary information to Glassdoor in Period under consideration. "

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* merkur.de is part of the nationwide central Ippen editorial network

Source: merkur

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