Management Report
9. Employees
On June 30, 2010, the Bayer Group employed 107,800 people worldwide, compared with 108,400 twelve months earlier. The number of employees thus remained practically constant (-0.6%). In Germany we had 36,200 employees (June 30, 2009: 36,400), who made up 33.6% of the Group workforce.
HealthCare employed 53,300 people (Q2 2009: 53,700). CropScience had 18,800 employees (Q2 2009: 18,500), while MaterialScience had 14,200 (Q2 2009: 14,600). The remaining 21,500 (Q2 2009: 21,600) employees worked mainly for the service companies.
Personnel expenses rose by 2.4% in the first half of 2010 to €4,044 million (H1 2009: €3,948 million). This increase was largely attributable to regular salary increases and to negative currency effects. The prior-year figure also included €70 million in additional funding for the German pension assurance association.