Employees

On September 30, 2009, the Bayer Group had 108,800 employees worldwide, 200 more than on December 31, 2008. We employed 16,400 people in North America, 21,500 in the Asia/Pacific region and 16,200 in Latin America/Africa/Middle East. The number of employees in Europe was 54,700. In Germany we had 36,900 employees, who made up 33.9% of the Group workforce. The above figures include 2,800 trainees worldwide. The number of employees has been converted to full-time equivalents, which means part-time employees are included in proportion to their contractual working hours.

Personnel expenses in the first three quarters of 2009 amounted to €5,854 million (9M 2008: €5,739 million). The increase was largely attributable to the additional funding for the German corporate pension assurance association.