13. 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.
|
|
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).