13. Personnel expenses
in € thousand |
|
2024 |
|
2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Wages and salaries |
|
456,185 |
|
422,725 |
Social security contributions and benefits |
|
68,432 |
|
67,680 |
Staff deployment |
|
67,544 |
|
61,401 |
Service expense |
|
5,820 |
|
4,041 |
Other retirement benefit expenses |
|
366 |
|
812 |
|
|
598,347 |
|
556,659 |
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.
Following the partial reversal in the previous year, social security contributions and benefits expenses include a full reversal for non-contractual restructuring provisions in the Container segment. Social security contributions include payments towards the public pension scheme amounting to € 37,701 thousand (previous year: € 35,388 thousand) and payments to the German pension insurance scheme.
Expenses for staff deployment increased year-on-year due to the higher storage load at the Hamburg container terminals.
Service cost includes payments from defined benefit pension commitments and similar obligations; see Note 36.
|
|
2024 |
|
2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Employees receiving wages |
|
3,421 |
|
3,411 |
Salaried staff |
|
3,379 |
|
3,245 |
Trainees |
|
80 |
|
66 |
|
|
6,880 |
|
6,722 |
In addition, the Group deployed an annual average of 553 employees (previous year: 530) of Gesamthafenbetriebs-Gesellschaft m. b. H., Hamburg (GHB).