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Consolidated Financial Statements
Notes
117
The increase in IT services costs results from
the cooperation agreement signed with Deutsche
Telekom AG, which at the same time reduced the
depreciation charges on IT equipment.
Expenses from banking transactions are com-
posed as follows:
The 418 million reduction in expenses from
banking transactions resulted primarily from the
lower interest rates.
12. Staff costs/Employees
Staff costs are composed as follows:
The primary component of staff costs relates to
wages, salaries and emoluments, as well as all other
benefits paid to employees of the Group for their
services in the year under review.
Retirement benefit expenses relate to current and
former employees or their surviving dependants.
These expenses consist of appropriations to pension
provisions, employer contributions to supplemen-
tary occupational pension plans and retirement
benefit payments by the company for its employees.
Retirement benefit expenses include 706 mil-
lion (previous year: 767 million) of contributions
by Deutsche Post AG and 68 million (previous year:
75 million) of contributions by Deutsche Postbank
AG to Bundes-Pensions-Service für Post und Tele-
kommunikatione.V. In accordance with section 15(1)
and 16 (1) of the Postpersonalrechtsgesetz (German
Postal Employees Act), Bundes-Pensions-Service
für Post und Telekommunikation e.V. is the welfare
fund responsible for paying pensions and other retire
-
ment benefits to retired civil servants. Since fiscal year
2000, the annual contributions have amounted to
33% of the pensionable gross emoluments of active
civil servants and the notional pensionable gross
emoluments of civil servants on leave of absence.
The contributions will decline further in the future
as the number of civil servants is reduced.
Social security contributions relate in particular
to statutory social security contributions paid by
the company.
The average number of employees of
Deutsche Post World Net classified by employee
groups was as follows:
Expenses from banking transactions
in €m
Interest expense on liabilities 4,633 5,790
Other interest expenses 698 0
Interest expense on hybrid capital 49 0
Commission expense 75 77
Expenses from insurance operations 0 6
5,455 5,873
2000
2001
2000
Staff costs
Wages, salaries and emoluments 8,565 8,323
Retirement benefit expenses 1,195 1,403
Social security contributions 1,305 1,130
Welfare and assistance benefits 175 200
11,240 11,056
2001
in €m
2000
Employees
Hourly workers 153,629 152,553
Civil servants 77,688 83,499
Salaried employees 85,493 78,385
Trainees 6,488 5,561
323,298 319,998
2001