Employees by status group in Germany

Proportion of civil servants continues to fall

In the 2024 financial year, the proportion of employees with civil servant status declined to 13.0 percent, while the proportion of non-civil servants rose by 2.3 percentage points to 87.0 percent. This development was anticipated as Deutsche Telekom stopped recruiting new employees with civil servant status following its privatization in 1995. The number of remaining civil servants continues to fall through natural attrition due to retirement, transfers to government authorities and the dedicated retirement scheme or the passive phase of partial retirement.