Management Report
9. Employees
On March 31, 2010, the Bayer Group employed 107,800 people worldwide, compared with 108,700 twelve months earlier. The number of employees thus remained practically constant (-0.8%). In Germany we had 36,400 employees (March 31, 2009: 36,800), who made up 33.8% of the Group workforce.
HealthCare employed 53,200 people (Q1 2009: 53,700). CropScience had 18,700 employees (Q1 2009: 18,400), while MaterialScience had 14,200 (Q1 2009: 14,800). The remaining 21,700 (Q1 2009: 21,800) employees worked mainly for the service companies.
Personnel expenses rose by 6.6% in the first quarter of 2010 to €2,015 million (Q1 2009: €1,891 million). This increase was largely attributable to higher provisions for variable employee remuneration and regular salary increases.