Annual Report 2023

13. Personnel expenses

Personnel expenses

in € thousand

 

2023

 

2022

Wages and salaries

 

422,725

 

405,723

Social security contributions and benefits

 

67,680

 

72,943

Staff deployment

 

61,401

 

79,174

Service expense

 

4,041

 

11,927

Other retirement benefit expenses

 

812

 

735

 

 

556,659

 

570,502

More details on direct remuneration paid to the members of the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board for the reporting year and the previous year can be found in Note 48.

The rise in wages and salaries in the reporting year is essentially due to increases in union wage rates and additions to the group of consolidated companies.

Expenses for staff deployment decreased year-on-year due to the lower storage load at the Hamburg container terminals and the lower container throughput.

As in the previous year, social security contributions and benefits include a partial reversal of a provision for restructuring as part of an efficiency programme. Social security contributions include payments towards the public pension scheme amounting to € 35,388 thousand (previous year: € 33,729 thousand) and payments to the German pension insurance scheme.

Service cost includes payments from defined benefit pension commitments and similar obligations; see Note 36.

Average number of employees of fully consolidated companies

 

 

2023

 

2022

Employees receiving wages

 

3,411

 

3,418

Salaried staff

 

3,245

 

3,119

Trainees

 

66

 

75

 

 

6,722

 

6,612

In addition, the Group used an annual average of 530 employees (previous year: 705) of Gesamthafenbetriebs-Gesellschaft m.b.H., Hamburg (GHB).

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