Most overtime is in these professions - what about in your industry?

According to a recent analysis, 54 percent of all employees in Germany work overtime.

Some industries are particularly affected.

What role does age also play.

• According to a study, 54 percent of employees in Germany work

  overtime

  .

• The evaluation also shows the sectors in which employees work particularly long

  hours

  - and where comparatively little

  overtime occurs

  .

• There are in some cases considerable differences, and

  not just between the

  professions

  .

Throughout their careers,

9,655 and

15,390 overtime *.

But that is not the only finding from a study recently published by the Hamburg remuneration analyst Compensation Partner, for which the experts evaluated 215,403 data.

Study: 54 percent of employees work overtime

This “

” provides interesting comparative figures that many employees could find themselves in: a total of 54 percent of all employees in Germany work overtime - an

, as the company announced for the study.

would work an average of 2.2 and

3.7

.

The bad news for employees: According to the study, a third of the skilled workers are not compensated for the additional working hours.

You will therefore work for free for 13 months in your career.

In addition, 74 percent of the managers receive no compensation.

The good news: The number of overtime hours is falling in Germany overall, according to another finding.

Since 2009 there has been less and less overtime.

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Business consultants work the most overtime

According to the evaluation, employees in

work

.

Accordingly, they work an average of

.

Employees in the

follow in second place

with an average of 4.49 hours of overtime per week.

Followed by employees in

with 4.23 hours of overtime.

According to the study, employees in the

with an average of 4.11 hours of overtime and the

with 4.03 hours of overtime per week

occupy fourth and fifth place

.

Less overtime for employees in tax advice and public administration

According to the evaluation, the

worked by

those

employed in

, they work an additional 1.85 hours per week on average.

Comparatively few overtime also make therefore employees of the

(an average of 1.95 overtime), the

s

(2.13) as well as employees of

(2.24) and

(2.29).

Of course, there are also gradations within the individual industries and groups.

“

The number of

also increases

in

” according to one of the findings, according to the report.

“While skilled workers with an annual salary of up to 20,000 euros work 1.9 hours of overtime per week, those with over 120,000 euros work an additional 6.8 hours on average,” it says there.

Managers "with over 120,000 euros a year" would work more than ten hours of overtime per week.

Read here:

Arbeitsmonitor 2019: The number of overtime hours increases with age

And

impact on the number of

: “Young professionals under the age of 20 work an average of 1.7 hours of overtime per week,” the company reports on the study.

Employees between the ages of 30 and 39 would work 3.1 hours overtime.

After the age of 60, employees stayed in the office around 3.7 hours longer per week.

Those interested can find further details on the study here.

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