Overview: These are the best-paid apprenticeships

Created: 01/24/2022, 11:31 am

By: Lisa Mayerhofer

In 2021, German trainees earned an average of 987 euros gross per month over all training years.

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In 2021, German trainees earned an average of 987 euros gross per month over all training years.

However, trainee salaries vary greatly depending on the apprenticeship.

Bonn - 2022 has started with good news for trainees*: Starting this year, the minimum training allowance in the first year of training will increase from 550 to 585 euros per month.

In many apprenticeships, however, the trainee salary is much higher even in the first year of apprenticeship.

Trainees earned an average of 987 euros in 2021

According to the Federal Institute for Vocational Training (BIBB), all trainees in 2021 received an average of 987 euros gross per month over all training years.

For trainees in western Germany, the average value was slightly higher at 989 euros than for eastern German trainees at 965 euros.

According to its own information, the BIBB evaluates the collectively agreed training allowances annually as of October 1 - and has done so since 1976. The average values ​​for 173 occupations in western Germany and 115 occupations in eastern Germany are shown.

The evaluation for 2021 also showed that trainee salaries in Germany have risen more slowly on average than in previous years.

At 2.6 percent, the increase in remuneration is roughly the same as in the previous year and is therefore significantly weaker than in the years before the start of the corona pandemic*.

Between 2012 and 2019, with the exception of 2017, wage increases of well over three percent were always recorded.

Budding carpenters earn the best

In 2021, the carpenter trainees received the highest collectively agreed training allowance on average in Germany, with an average of 1,251 euros per month.

In the first year, the prospective carpenters only start with a salary of 889 euros in western Germany and 805 euros in eastern Germany.

In the second and third year of training, however, their salary increases to an average of EUR 1,228 and EUR 1,493 in the West and EUR 1,000 and EUR 1,210 in the East.

The occupations of tile, slab and mosaic layers also offer high trainee salaries with an average of 1,221 euros (East: 983 euros), followed by bricklayers with an average of 1,215 euros (East: 976 euros).

Pipeline builders with 1,210 (east: 1,029) and road builders (industry and trade) with an average of 1,208 euros in the west and 1,019 euros in the east.

Orthopedic shoemaker trainees get the lowest salary

Prospective orthopedic shoemakers are paid the worst with four years of training and an average of 632 euros per month.

In the east, the orthopedic shoemaker trainees earn an average of 733 euros more than a hundred euros.

Trainee salaries* are also very low in the hairdressing profession, averaging EUR 660 in the West and only EUR 415 in the East.

The floor layers with 686 euros (east: 688 euros) as well as parquet layers with 688 euros (also in the east: 688 euros) and interior decorators with 704 euros (east: 698 euros) also earn below average.