German workers enjoyed a fuller pay check in 2019 than in the previous year, according to government data released on Wednesday.
The index of real earnings in Germany went up by an average of 1.2 percent, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reported.
Based on provisional results, nominal earnings increased last year by 2.6 percent, although inflation ate into wages, with consumer prices up 1.4 percent in the same period.
Nonetheless, 2019 was the sixth year in a row that saw gross earnings in the German workforce rise at a rate above inflation. This peaked in 2015, when real earnings experienced a 2.1-percent boost.
In 2018, the increase was 1.3 percent.
Since 2010, the statisticians calculated an average increase of 1.2 percent in the real-wage index.
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