Teller Report

Income 2021: wages rise - these are the winners

1/11/2021, 1:29:28 PM

Companies in Germany want to raise wages by a median of 2.5 percent in 2021. However, incomes develop quite differently. Which industries benefit most - and which don't.


In the spring, hardly an expert would have dared to predict that the corona crisis would hardly leave any traces on the incomes of most employees.

A lockdown later, there is more clarity: Hundreds of thousands of employees still have to worry about their jobs, most recently around two million people were on short-time work.

But where there is little or no loss of sales due to Corona, employees can increase their wages and salaries at a pace that is well above the inflation rate. WELT shows who can expect more money in the next year.