Salary report 2022: These professions, sectors and companies currently have the most money
Created: 2/9/2022Updated: 2/9/2022 12:07 p.m
By: Andrea Stettner
The 2022 salary report shows that if you want to be one of the top earners, you should choose your profession, industry and company carefully.
Where employees expect the best salary.
The best-
paid jobs in Germany
are in medicine, as well as in the tech and financial sectors.
This is shown by the joint salary report 2022 of the portals
content.de
and
Stepstone.de,
for which more than 600,000 salary data were analyzed
.
But not only profession and industry decide on a top salary*.
The location and size of the company also have a decisive influence on the level of income, as the study shows.
Salary report 2022 at a glance: How much do Germans earn?
The 2022 Salary Report provides exciting insights into how much Germans are currently earning.
Facts at a glance:
The
average salary in Germany
is 51,009 euros gross
per year.
The annual median salary (mean value) is 44,074 euros gross.
Women
earn a median of EUR 40,533 gross per year,
men
EUR 47,320 gross.
Personnel responsibility is rewarded: The gross salary of
managers
is 86,349 euros per year, while specialists without personnel responsibility earn a median of 43,628 euros gross.
In
Hesse
, the average median salary is the highest in Germany at 47,840 euros.
Baden-Württemberg follows in second place with 47,806 euros, Bavaria comes in third place (46,800 euros).
The ranking of the big cities is dominated by
Frankfurt am Main
with 54,100 euros.
Munich (53,900 euros) and Stuttgart (53,600 euros) follow.
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The salary report 2022 shows where you currently have the best chance of a good salary.
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These are the best-paid professions in Germany in 2022
As in previous years, the best-paid profession in Germany comes from the professional group of academics.
Doctors
are among the top earners with a median salary of
78,317 euros
.
No wonder: they bear a lot of responsibility for the health of their patients and the professional requirements are high.
This job is rewarded accordingly.
They earn around 78 percent more than the average.
In second place are employees in
sales
(e.g. key account management), who end up in the upper range of the ranking, mainly due to flexible salary components such as bonuses.
Management consultants
master complicated challenges that need to be solved quickly and flexibly.
They are paid top wages for this - and accordingly end up in 3rd place. The salaries at a glance:
place | job | Annual gross salary (median) |
1 | Doctor | 78,317 euros |
2 | salespeople | 62,379 euros |
3 | management consultants | 62,119 euros |
Source: Stepstone Salary Report 2022
In the professions without academic training, financial experts earn
the
best: They can look forward to a median gross annual salary of EUR 43,175, followed by
IT
experts (EUR 42,758) and
HR
managers (EUR 42,011).
What is the median?
The median is the value that is exactly in the middle of all values.
This means that there are exactly the same number of salaries that are lower and higher than the median salary.
Also interesting:
Do you earn less than 50,000 euros a year and are you satisfied with that?
Then you are not part of the majority of Germans*.
Best paid industries in Germany 2022
If you want to earn a lot of money, you should not only make the right career choice, but also keep an eye on the industry.
According to the salary report, the best-paid sectors in Germany include the
semiconductor
sector, biotechnology and banks:
place | industry | Annual gross salary (median) |
1 | semiconductor | 62,963 euros |
2 | biotechnology | 61,542 euros |
3 | banks | 58,341 euros |
The
retail sector
, on the other hand, does relatively poorly with 32,000 to 35,000 euros per year.
Employees in
hotels and restaurants
(EUR 31,2000) and in
call centers
(EUR 28,916) can also expect the lowest salaries across all sectors.
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salary check: 100 popular professions in comparison.
Ranking: salaries by company size
As a rule of thumb when it comes to salaries,
the bigger the company, the better the pay
.
The salary report 2022 shows that you can count on a dream salary, especially in corporations:
Number of employees in the company | Annual gross salary (median) |
More than 5,000 employees | 59,280 euros |
501-5,000 employees | 50,756 euros |
51-500 employees | 44,163 euros |
1-50 employees | 37,440 euros |
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Salary report 2022: This is how the study was created
More than 600,000 compensation data from the last 12 months were evaluated for the StepStone Salary Report 2022.
Of these, 64 percent come from men and 36 percent from women.
The proportion of employees with personnel responsibility is 13 percent.
All salary figures refer to the gross annual salary including bonuses, commissions and bonuses, for example
By the way, in 2022 many employees can expect a higher net salary on their payslip - are you one of them?
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