27 Personnel expenses
Personnel expenses
| Euro 000s | 2008/2009 | 2007/2008 | |||
| Wages and salaries | 251 028 | 238 342 | |||
| Social security expenses and welfare expenses | 45 112 | 42 223 | |||
| Pension expenses | 18 046 | 24 335 | |||
| 314 186 | 304 900 | ||||
The MVV Energie Group had an annual average of 5 908 employees (previous year:
6 180). This figure includes 418 trainees (previous year: 388). Of the total workforce,
675 individuals were employed at proportionately consolidated companies (previous year: 1 022). The reduction in the number of employees was chiefly due to the sale of KPEC Komunalne Przedsiebiorstwo Energetyki Cieplnej Sp. z o.o., Bydgoszcz, Poland, as well as to the deconsolidation of the Polish subgroup in the 2007/08 financial year.
The decline in pension expenses was principally due to the provisions, particularly for benefits in kind, recognised in the previous year.
