13 – Personnel expenses and employees
Personnel expenses
The BASF Group spent €10,165 million for wages and salaries, social security contributions and expenses for pensions and assistance in 2016 (2015: €9,982 million). This represented an increase in personnel expenses of 1.8%. This was particularly due to higher expenses for the long-term incentive (LTI) program in addition to wage and salary increases. Countering this was the lower average number of employees (2016: 111,975 employees; 2015: 113,249 employees) as well as currency effects.
Personnel expenses (million €) |
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|
|
2016 |
2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
Wages and salaries |
|
8,170 |
7,943 |
Social security contributions and expenses for pensions and assistance |
|
1,995 |
2,039 |
Thereof for pension benefits |
|
627 |
658 |
Personnel expenses |
|
10,165 |
9,982 |
Number of employees
As of December 31, 2016, the number of employees increased to 113,830 employees due to the acquisition of Chemetall compared with 112,435 employees as of December 31, 2015.
It was distributed over the regions as follows:
Number of employees as of December 31 |
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|
|
2016 |
2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
Europe |
|
70,784 |
70,079 |
Thereof Germany |
|
53,318 |
52,837 |
North America |
|
17,583 |
17,471 |
Asia Pacific |
|
18,156 |
17,562 |
South America, Africa, Middle East |
|
7,307 |
7,323 |
BASF Group |
|
113,830 |
112,435 |
Thereof apprentices and trainees |
|
3,120 |
3,240 |
temporary staff |
|
2,334 |
2,294 |
Employees from joint operations are included in the number of employees at year end relative to BASF’s share in the respective company. In total, this included 432 employees in 2016 (2015: 392 employees).
The average number of employees was distributed over the regions as follows:
Average number of employees |
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|
|
2016 |
2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
Europe |
|
69,873 |
70,922 |
Thereof Germany |
|
52,608 |
52,987 |
North America |
|
17,308 |
17,342 |
Asia Pacific |
|
17,473 |
17,428 |
South America, Africa, Middle East |
|
7,321 |
7,557 |
BASF Group |
|
111,975 |
113,249 |
Thereof apprentices and trainees |
|
2,838 |
2,942 |
temporary staff |
|
2,365 |
2,574 |
Employees from joint operations are included in the average number of employees relative to BASF’s share in the company. This comprised a total of 404 employees (2015: 398 employees).