Labor market Berlin-Brandenburg: Stagnation despite training shortage!

Labor market Berlin-Brandenburg: Stagnation despite training shortage!

Brandenburg, Deutschland - in Berlin and Brandenburg there are hardly any changes in the current labor market Situation. The latest figures show that the number of unemployment in both federal states is almost stable. In Berlin, 218,496 people are currently registered unemployed, which corresponds to an unemployment rate of 10.2 percent. Compared to the previous year, the quota of 9.5 percent, reports RBB24. In Brandenburg, on the other hand, the situation is slightly better: 85,236 people are unemployed here, which represents a decline of 649 people compared to the previous month. The unemployment rate is 6.3 percent, also slightly increased compared to the previous year, when it was still 5.9 percent.

Christian Henkes from the regional directorate of the Federal Employment Agency expressed that the weak economy has significantly impaired creating new jobs. Nevertheless, many places remain vacant, especially in industries such as the manufacturing trade, trade, services as well as health and social affairs. There is also great potential in vacancies in construction. In Brandenburg, training companies in particular are looking for active supplies, because 6,200 training positions are still vacant here, while 5,700 young people are without an apprenticeship.

Review of the past few years

The Brandenburg labor market has proven to be relatively stable in the past five years, despite the challenges in recent years. While unemployment continued to drop from 2003 to 2019, a decline occurred in 2020 due to the Corona pandemic. In the following years, in particular between 2020 and 2022, the number of unemployed rose by 7.7 percent to 82,795 people, and the unemployment rate reached a moderate increase in 2024 in 2024. This increased by 0.2 percentage points compared to 2023 and is therefore above the national average of 6.0 percent, as can be read on mwaek.brandenburg.de.

The regional differences in the unemployment rate within Brandenburg are striking. While the quota is only 3.8 percent in the Dahme-Spreewald district, the Uckermark is fighting with a quota of 11.2 percent. Potsdam has the lowest rate at 5.7 percent, while Brandenburg an der Havel has the highest with 9.1 percent.

Current developments and outlook

employment in Brandenburg, who is subject to social security contributions, achieved the best in October 2024 with 891,700 in two years. According to the currently available data, employment growth in Brandenburg is higher than in eastern Germany, but remains behind the nationwide value. The average employment subject to social security contributions on June 30, 2025 was 3.9 percent above the level of 2020, which is a slight ray of hope, even if the increase was slower than between 2015 and 2019, as the Federal Agency for Work shown.