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Fig. 3.8: Personnel costs (CZK billion)

Source: Ministry of Industry and Trade, Czech Statistical Office; ese are total personnel costs (wage costs, social security and health insurance costs and other personnel costs)

3.3 Condition of companies in the Czech automotive industry – selected indicators e development of the industrial output of the automotive industry, i.e. not only of the nal producers of all motor vehicles, but also of parts, equipment or car bodies in the Czech Republic, has been characterised over the last seventeen years by the fact that the growth rate of the automotive industry has exceeded the performance of the entire manufacturing industry for most years. Exceptions were 2013, 2018 and 2020 and 2021. e impact of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic on the automotive industry was the third most signi cant of all manufacturing industries (after leather and machinery manufacturing). While the GDP of the Czech Republic fell by 5% in 2020 and the manufacturing industry by 7%, the automotive industry recorded a decline of 12%. Similarly, in 2021, the production of the automotive industry (annual growth of 4%) lagged the development of the entire domestic manufacturing industry, whose output increased by 7%. In 2022 and 2023, the production of the automotive industry in the Czech Republic returned to double-digit growth (12% and 17% respectively).

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