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 Staff costs / employees
 m
2012 2013
Wages, salaries and compensation 1 14,209 14,307
of which expenses under Share Matching Scheme 91 82
of which expenses from   Plan /  143 202
Social security contributions 2,094 2,111
Retirement benefit expenses 1 954 883
Expenses for other employee benefits 336 357
Expenses for severance payments 177 127
Staff costs 17,770 17,785
1 Prior-year amounts adjusted Note .
e increase in wage, salary and compensation payments due
to the higher headcount and sta costs was cushioned by exchange
rate eects.
 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
Germany in the amount of  million (previous year:  mil-
lion), 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
2012 2013
Hourly workers and salaried employees 424,950 433,956
Civil servants 42,461 40,321
Trainees 4,910 4,935
Employees 472,321 479,212
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 : ,). e number of
employees at consolidated joint ventures amounted to  on a pro-
portionate basis (previous year: ).
 Depreciation, amortisation and impairment losses
 m
2012 2013
Amortisation of and impairment losses on intangible
assets, excluding impairment of goodwill 295 290
Depreciation of and impairment losses on property,
plant and equipment
Land and buildings (including leasehold
improvements) 180 174
Technical equipment and machinery 242 252
Other equipment, operating and oce
equipment, vehicle fleet 420 409
Aircraft 202 215
1,044 1,050
Impairment losses on investment property 0 1
1,339 1,341
Impairment of goodwill 0 0
Depreciation, amortisation and impairment losses 1,339 1,341
Depreciation, amortisation and impairment losses increased
by  million year-on-year to , million. is gure includes
impairment losses of  million (previous year:  million). e
impairment losses are attributable to the segments as follows:
Impairment losses on non-current assets
 m
2012 2013
 1 12
Intangible assets 0 12
Property, plant and equipment 1 0
 18 22
Property, plant and equipment 18 22
of which technical equipment and machinery 0 3
of which aircraft 18 19
  2 0
Intangible assets 1 0
Property, plant and equipment 1 0
of which technical equipment and machinery 1 0
Corporate Center / Other 7 4
Intangible assets 0 3
Property, plant and equipment 7 0
of which land and buildings 7 0
Investment property 0 1
Impairment losses 28 38
Most of the impairment losses are attributable to aircra that
are no longer used, as in the previous year.
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Notes
Income statement disclosures
Consolidated Financial Statements