Porsche has decided to disclose its salary structure in response to questions from shareholders.
German newspaperAutomobilwocheAccording to reports, Porsche was forced to disclose its entire internal salary structure in response to questions from shareholders, and the details have now been made public.
Based on this Automobilwoche article (or so it seems), several overseas media outlets have published articles about Porsche's salary figures using similar numbers, but we could not find any similar Q&A content in Porsche's investor relations materials (including shareholder questions, etc.).
Of course, this information may have been released on a website only accessible to shareholders, or in a form that doesn't leave a written record... but since it's from a German newspaper, it's likely accurate, so let's take a look at how much Porsche's salaries are reported to be.
Employee 40% earns over $115,000 (approximately 18.5 million yen) annually.
Porsche currently employs approximately 23,000 people, and of those, 9,082 are expected to earn more than 100,000 euros (approximately 18.5 million yen) in taxable gross income in 2025. This means that approximately 401 TP1T of employees will earn a salary of more than 100,000 euros.
According to the German Federal Statistical Office, this salary of over 100,000 euros places the worker in the top 101 TP1T of all German workers, and is almost double the national average gross salary of 54,066 euros (approximately 10 million yen), which includes bonuses.
Looking at the higher levels, it appears that by 2025, 201 Porsche employees will earn more than 300,000 euros (approximately 55.5 million yen) annually, and of those, 28 will earn more than 500,000 euros (approximately 92.5 million yen).
Incidentally, it seems that only three people were earning more than 1 million euros (approximately 185 million yen) per year.
According to the German newspaper Automobilwoche, these figures represent the salaries of management-level employees below the board of directors, and the actual upper limit is even higher.
Salary of former Porsche CEO Oliver Blume
Oliver Blume, the former CEO of Porsche, is said to have received compensation worth 1.9 million euros (approximately 351.5 million yen) in 2025, his final year as CEO of Porsche.
Furthermore, since Oliver was also serving as CEO of Volkswagen at the same time, it can be assumed that his actual income was far higher than this figure.
Porsche's current CEO, Michael Leiters, will announce his 2026 compensation in the next annual report, so the amount is still undecided at this time.
As of 2025, it appears that there were actually two people earning more than the then-CEO, Oliver: Michael Steiner, the head of development, and Albrecht Reimold, the head of production.
Their respective compensation was 2.1 million euros (approximately 388.5 million yen) and 2.05 million euros (approximately 379.25 million yen).
Furthermore, another instance where a large sum of money changed hands was...Lutz Meschke, the former CFO, had his term as an executive suddenly terminated at the end of February 2025...
He left the company at the end of February 2025, but he was still paid 266,588 euros (approximately 49.32 million yen). Furthermore, because his term ended early, he received a severance package of 10 million euros (approximately 1.85 billion yen) as compensation for the remainder of his contract, which would have originally run until 2027.
Indeed, they said they wanted to "end the term amicably," so now, looking at the amount, it makes a bit of sense.
Jochen Breckner, who succeeded Breckner as CFO on March 1, 2025, will receive a compensation of 1.1 million euros (approximately 203.5 million yen) for the period from that point onward. Matthias Becker, who succeeded the Chief Sales Officer on the same day, will receive the same amount.
Wow, that's quite a high salary...or so you might think, but actually, these are quite low compared to the salaries of CEOs and directors at other German companies.
For example, BMW CEO Oliver Zipse's annual compensation in 2025 is 7.85 million euros (approximately 1.45225 billion yen), while Mercedes-Benz Group CEO Ola Källenius's is 8.78 million euros (approximately 1.6243 billion yen).
Salaries for non-executives at Porsche are
The rest of the information comes from a German company review website, and it includes salary information for general positions at Porsche (in Germany), not just management positions.
Since this is a review site, it's hard to say how reliable the information is, but according to data reported by employees, Porsche project managers earn an average of 91,800 euros (approximately 16.98 million yen), development engineers 87,500 euros (16.19 million yen), HR managers 80,000 euros (14.8 million yen), and purchasing managers 75,600 euros (13.99 million yen).
For operations and support positions, the average annual salary for an administrative assistant is €61,700 (¥11.41 million), for a factory production worker it's €58,000 (¥10.73 million), and for a logistics specialist it's €51,300 (approximately ¥9.5 million).
This was a very interesting report because it gave us a glimpse into Porsche's salary structure, something we don't usually get to see.
Source:Nearly 40% Of Porsche Workers Now Earn Six Figures
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I'm Rika, the author of this article. Since I got my hands on a Porsche 911, I've been completely hooked on Porsches and I can't stop loving them, so I started this blog. My favorite cars are the 911 Carrera (2/991), 911 Carrera Cabriolet & 911 Carrera T (1/992), GT3 (1/997) and 718 Cayman GT4 RS.
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