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The salary is made up of several factors.
Location and region also play a role.
But where do you earn the most in Germany?
Professional experience, industry, training.
What is on your pay slip at the end of the month is influenced by various factors.
Location and region also play a role.
But in which German cities do you get the highest salaries?
At the beginning of 2024, Stepstone.de
published
the 2024 salary report. In addition to salary data for various industries and professional groups, the job platform also lists the cities and federal states where salaries are highest.
An overview.
Salary report 2024: Where do people earn the best in Germany?
According to the Stepstone salary report, Munich is the city with the highest salaries in Germany.
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According to the Stepstone salary report, the average salary in Germany is 50,250 euros gross per year.
As
Finanz.de
calculates, this corresponds to an income of around 2,741 euros net per month in tax class 1. However, the median is significantly behind at 43,750 euros gross per year (2,443 euros net per month).
Since the average value can be influenced by extremely high or low values, the salary figures in the Stepstone report refer to the median salary.
The median is the value that lies exactly in the middle of all values.
This means that there are exactly the same number of salaries that are lower and that are higher than the median salary.
According to Stepstone, 921,973 compensation data collected between January 2021 and November 2023 were evaluated for the statistics.
All evaluations are based on salary information collected from full-time employees.
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Salaries in a city comparison: The most people earn the most in these cities
In the ranking of top-earning cities, the Bavarian capital Munich leads with a median salary of 56,250 euros per year.
Stuttgart (54,500 euros) and Frankfurt am Main (54,250 euros) follow in second and third place.
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The top 10 by salary:
Munich: 56,250 euros
Stuttgart: 54,500 euros
Frankfurt am Main: 54,250 euros
Wiesbaden: 53,500 euros
Bonn: 51,250 euros
Düsseldorf: 50,750 euros
Mannheim: 50,500 euros
Karlsruhe: 50,250 euros
Cologne: 50,000 euros
Hamburg: 49,750 euros
Where do you earn the most?
The top 10 federal states by salary
The ranking of the federal states with the highest salaries looks somewhat different.
With a median salary of 49,750 euros, Hamburg earns the best, closely followed by Hesse with 47,500 euros and Baden-Württemberg with 47,000 euros.
Hamburg: 49,750 euros
Hesse: 47,500 euros
Baden-Württemberg: 47,000 euros
Berlin: 46,500 euros
Bavaria: 46,000 euros
North Rhine-Westphalia: 44,000 euros
Bremen: 42,500
Rhineland-Palatinate: 42,000
Lower Saxony: 40,750 euros
Schleswig-Holstein: 40,250 euros
Saarland: 40,000 euros
Brandenburg: 38,000 euros
Saxony: 38,000 euros
Thuringia: 37,000 euros
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: 36,500 euros
Saxony-Anhalt: 36,500 euros
Salary differences in Germany: These sectors pay the most
But in which professions do you earn the most money?
If you look at the different industries, the highest salaries are paid in banking (63,250 euros), aerospace (57,750 euros) and the pharmaceutical industry (57,250 euros).
Behind this are science & research (57,000 euros) and insurance (56,000 euros).
In the individual professional groups, doctors are ahead with a gross median salary of 94,750 euros.