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 Staff costs / employees
 m 2013
adjusted 1
2014
Wages, salaries and compensation 14,300 14,583
of which expenses under Share Matching
Scheme 2 82 82
of which expenses under Performance Share
Plan 3 0 3
of which expenses under   Plan /  4 202 105
Social security contributions 2,110 2,164
Retirement benefit expenses 883 965
Expenses for other employee benefits 356 344
Expenses for severance payments 127 133
Staff costs 17,776 18,189
1 Note .
2 Settlement by equity instruments and cash payments.
3 Settlement by equity instruments.
4 Cash payments.
 million of the expenses under the Share Matching Scheme
(previous year:  million) is attributable to cash-settled share-
based payments. is amount corresponds to the obligation at the
balance sheet date. In addition, expenses of  million (previous
year:  million) were incurred for equity-settled share-based
payments.
Sta costs relate mainly to wages, salaries and compensation,
as well as all other benets paid to employees of the Group for their
services in the year under review. Social security contributions
relate in particular to statutory social security contributions paid
by employers.
Retirement benet expenses include the service cost related
to the dened benet retirement plans. Detailed information can
be found in Note . ese expenses also include contributions
to dened contribution retirement plans for civil servants in Ger-
many in the amount of  million (previous year:  million),
as well as for the Group’s hourly workers and salaried employees–
particularly in the , the  and the Netherlands – in the
amount of  million (previous year:  million).
e average number of Group employees in the year under
review, broken down by employee group, was as follows:
Employees (annual average)
Headcount 2013
adjusted 1
2014
Hourly workers and salaried employees 433,647 440,973
Civil servants 40,321 37,963
Trainees 4,935 5,089
Employees 478,903 484,025
1 Note .
e employees of companies acquired or disposed of during the
year under review were included rateably. Calculated as full-time
equivalents, the number of employees as at  December 
amounted to , ( December , adjusted: ,). e
number of employees at joint operations included in the consoli-
dated nancial statements amounted to  on a proportionate
basis (previous year, adjusted: ).
 Depreciation, amortisation and impairment losses
 m 2013
adjusted 1
2014
Amortisation of and impairment losses on intangible
assets, excluding impairment of goodwill 290 271
Depreciation of and impairment losses on property,
plant and equipment
Land and buildings
(including leasehold improvements) 173 174
Technical equipment and machinery 252 235
Other equipment, operating and oce equipment 206 204
Vehicle fleet, transport equipment 203 216
Aircraft 212 281
1,046 1,110
Impairment losses on investment property 1 0
1,337 1,381
Impairment of goodwill 0 0
Depreciation, amortisation and impairment losses 1,337 1,381
1 Note .
Depreciation, amortisation and impairment losses increased by
 million year-on-year to , million. is gure includes im-
pairment losses of  million (previous year:  million) that
are attributable to the segments as follows:
Impairment losses
 m
2013 2014
PeP
Software 12 5
Express
Property, plant and equipment 22 107
Supply Chain
Property, plant and equipment 0 1
Corporate Center / Other
Software 3 5
Property, plant and equipment 0 2
Investment property 1 0
Impairment losses 38 120
As in the previous year, the impairment losses in the Express
segment resulted exclusively from aircra and aircra parts.
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