Bad news for pensioners: This is how long you theoretically have to work to get a civil service pension. Full-time employees in Germany earn an average of 4,323 euros gross per month, according to the Federal Statistical Office.

Based on this value, employees must earn more than twice the average salary to reach the average pension value. Federal Office of the Interior and Homeland warns against comparison of average pensions and pensions is a comparison of apples and pears.” Because while pensions cover the entire or the majority of a working life, flow into the pension.