The black-red federal authorities remains to be arguing about pensions. But what does the present state of affairs really appear like? The pension insurance coverage firm has printed its pension atlas. The variations between the federal states are big.
The pension dispute splits the coalition. But the place are the pensions really presently? The German pension insurance coverage has printed its present pension atlas.
Accordingly, individuals from Saarland acquired the very best pensions in Germany on the finish of final 12 months, with a mean of 1,805 euros. North Rhine-Westphalia is shut behind with 1,773 euros. East Berlin is in third place with a mean of 1,756 euros (Berlin as a complete: 1,694 euros). Thuringia comes final within the present record with 1,572 euros. The nationwide common is 1692 euros.
However, pension insurance coverage paperwork clear variations between women and men. Men from Baden-Württemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia and Saarland obtain the very best pensions. After 35 years of contributions, they acquired gross pensions averaging 2013, 2005 and 2002 euros on the finish of final 12 months.
Among males, pensioners in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (1,679 euros), Thuringia (1,696 euros) and Saxony-Anhalt (1,703 euros) had the bottom pension earnings nationwide after 35 years of contributions.
The lowest common gross pensions had been acquired by girls from Lower Saxony (1,394 euros), Bavaria (1,410 euros) and Rhineland-Palatinate (1,413 euros). In distinction, the very best pension funds for ladies went to East Berlin (1,682 euros), Brandenburg (1,543 euros), Hamburg (1,534 euros) and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (1,516 euros).
The common pensions at a look:
The nationwide common is 1692 euros.
- Saarland: 1805 euros
- North Rhine-Westphalia: 1773 euros
- East Berlin: 1756 euros
- Baden-Württemberg: 1755 euros
- Hesse: 1752 euros
- Hamburg: 1743 euros
- Rheinland-Pfalz: 1716
- Schleswig-Holstein: 1693 euros
- Bavaria: 1691 euros
- Lower Saxony: 1685 euros
- Bremen: 1666 euros
- Brandenburg: 1640 Euro
- Westberlin: 1631 Euro
- Saxony: 1594 euros
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: 1591 euros
- Saxony-Anhalt: 1580 euros
- Thuringia: 1572 euros
Later retirement
The pension insurance coverage attributes the smaller variations between women and men in jap Germany to the truth that girls there have been much less usually employed part-time than within the west and that the earnings variations between the sexes are smaller within the east. Baden-Württemberg is an economically sturdy, industrialized federal state, and North Rhine-Westphalia had many well-paid jobs in mining to supply, which explains the excessive pensions in these states.
According to the Pension Atlas, the retirement age rose from 64.4 years in 2023 to 64.7 years final 12 months. There had been no variations between the genders right here. Last 12 months, girls acquired pensions for a mean of twenty-two.1 years (plus 0.0 years), males for 18.9 years (plus 0.1 years).
Last 12 months, the utmost pension worth for males was 1,923 euros. According to the Pension Atlas 2024, males in North Rhine-Westphalia acquired this after 35 years of contributions.
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