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City dossier for Halle (Saale): live jobs, population, big employers, a net-pay calculator and how it compares with the other large German cities.

In short: Halle (Saale) is the #34 largest city in Germany (226,767 residents, Eurostat 2025) in Saxony-Anhalt. 1,080 job ads are live in the city today, mostly in Retail sales (general), Human and dental medicine, Warehousing, postal and delivery, freight handling.
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By AtiveSite · Published 07/11/2026 · Updated 07/11/2026 · Every figure is linked to its source below.

226,767residents, 2025 (Eurostat)
1,080live job ads in the city
5ads per 1,000 residents
4.9%unemployment in Saxony-Anhalt, 2025

Overview

Halle (Saale) is Germany's #34 city by population: 226,767 residents (Eurostat Urban Audit, 1 Jan 2025), -4.3% since 2016. It lies in Saxony-Anhalt, which has an unemployment rate of 4.9% and GDP per head of €37,200. Today 1,080 job ads published in the last 28 days are live in the city itself (5 per 1,000 residents).

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Jobs

LIVE · CITY (Halle (Saale)) Live feed Source: Bundesagentur Jobsuche · Data: ads published in the last 28 days · counted 07/11/2026

1,080 live ads. The tables below count ads by field, occupation, employer and place.

Top fields (Berufsfelder)

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Top occupations

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Occupation ⇅German title ⇅Live ads ⇅Share ⇅
Forklift driverGabelstaplerfahrer/in373.4%
Helfer/in - Fahrzeugbau und -instandhaltungHelfer/in - Fahrzeugbau und -instandhaltung343.1%
Salesperson (retail)Verkäufer/in323.0%
Warehouse and transport workerLager- und Transportarbeiter/in312.9%
Office management clerkKaufmann/-frau - Büromanagement292.7%
Office clerkBürokaufmann/-frau272.5%
Civil engineerIngenieur/in - Bau252.3%
Warehouse logistics specialistFachkraft - Lagerlogistik232.1%
Mechatronics technicianMechatroniker/in211.9%
Tax assistantSteuerfachangestellte/r211.9%
Electrician (installation)Elektroinstallateur/in181.7%
Altenpflegehelfer/inAltenpflegehelfer/in171.6%
Elderly care nurseAltenpfleger/in171.6%
BookkeeperBuchhalter/in171.6%
Industrial electronics technicianElektroniker/in - Betriebstechnik161.5%
NurseGesundheits- und Krankenpfleger/in161.5%
Warehouse and transport assistantHelfer/in - Lagerwirtschaft, Transport161.5%
Financial accountantFinanzbuchhalter/in151.4%
Building cleanerGebäudereiniger/in151.4%
Electronics technician (energy and building)Elektroniker/in - Energie- und Gebäudetechnik141.3%
Industrial clerkIndustriekaufmann/-frau141.3%
Plumbing, heating and AC fitterAnlagenmechaniker/in - Sanitär-, Heizungs- und Klimatechnik131.2%
Facharzt/-ärztin - Innere MedizinFacharzt/-ärztin - Innere Medizin131.2%
Cleaning assistantHelfer/in - Reinigung131.2%
Retail clerkKaufmann/-frau - Einzelhandel131.2%

Employers with the most ads

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Staffing agencies (Zeitarbeit) are included; see each employer page for the flag.

Places with the most ads

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Place ⇅Live ads ⇅Share ⇅
Halle (Saale)1,080100.0%

Places are as the Bundesagentur names them; ads within the radius the agency assigns to the place name.

What the ads say (indicators)

Fixed-term61 (5.6%)
Permanent723 (66.9%)
Not stated296 (27.4%)
Full-time (flag)850 (78.7%)
Part-time (flag)208 (19.3%)
Shift / night / weekend (flag)114 (10.6%)
Mini-job (flag)23 (2.1%)
Temporary agency work (Zeitarbeit)287 (26.6%)
Open to career changers (Quereinstieg)74 (6.9%)
Ads stating pay: per hour265 (24.5%)
Ads stating pay: per year141 (13.1%)

Indicators come from structured fields in the ads; many ads leave them blank. They describe current offers, not the whole labour market.

Population

CITY (Halle (Saale)) Official statistics Source: Eurostat urb_cpop1 · Data: population on 1 January

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Year ⇅Population ⇅Change vs 2016 ⇅
2016236,991–
2021237,865+0.4%
2025226,767-4.3%

Climate

CITY (modelled grid cell at the city centre) Reanalysis model, not a station Source: ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo · Data: monthly averages 1991–2020

Typical year: coldest month Jan (+1.2 °C), warmest Jul (+19.6 °C), about 561 mm of precipitation a year.

Jan+1.2 °C · 42 mm
Feb+2.0 °C · 32 mm
Mar+4.9 °C · 43 mm
Apr+9.5 °C · 35 mm
May+14.0 °C · 55 mm
Jun+17.4 °C · 48 mm
Jul+19.6 °C · 65 mm
Aug+19.4 °C · 56 mm
Sep+15.1 °C · 51 mm
Oct+10.4 °C · 42 mm
Nov+5.4 °C · 46 mm
Dec+2.2 °C · 46 mm
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Month ⇅Mean temperature °C ⇅Precipitation mm ⇅
Jan1.242
Feb2.032
Mar4.943
Apr9.535
May14.055
Jun17.448
Jul19.665
Aug19.456
Sep15.151
Oct10.442
Nov5.446
Dec2.246

ERA5 is a global reanalysis on a grid of about 25 km: good for comparing places, not a replacement for the German Weather Service station data.

Pay & cost

What is left after tax? (estimate)

Type the gross monthly salary you were offered. We apply the 2026 income-tax tariff and employee social contributions.

Method: tax class I (single, no children), no other income, standard work-related expenses €1,230 and special-expenses €36, employee pension/health/care contributions deducted as provisions, income tax by § 32a EStG 2026, solidarity surcharge with the 2026 threshold. It is an estimate: the real payroll uses the official Federal Ministry of Finance payroll tax program, tax class, children, allowances, 13th salary and company benefits, so the payslip will differ. Not advice.

See the tax and contribution tables. The calculator below applies them.

NATIONAL (all Germany) Official statistics Source: Eurostat earn_ses22_28 · Data: reference year 2022 (latest Structure of Earnings Survey)

Mean annual gross earnings of employees in enterprises with 10 or more employees were €48,655 in 2022 (about €4,055 a month): men €54,375, women €42,325. The table splits them by broad occupation group (ISCO-08 major groups).

Managers€111,275
Professionals€72,211
Technicians and associate professionals€53,017
Armed forces occupations€43,730
Clerical support workers€43,425
Craft and related trades workers€42,566
Plant and machine operators and assemblers€40,198
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers€34,404
Service and sales workers€33,728
Elementary occupations€29,284
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Occupation group ⇅Mean annual gross € ⇅≈ per month € ⇅Men € ⇅Women € ⇅Gap men vs women ⇅
Managers111,2759,273122,56380,94034%
Professionals72,2116,01882,04161,32025%
Technicians and associate professionals53,0174,41862,70145,47227%
Clerical support workers43,4253,61947,20041,00813%
Service and sales workers33,7282,81134,86633,1555%
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers34,4042,86735,71427,82222%
Craft and related trades workers42,5663,54743,26635,52518%
Plant and machine operators and assemblers40,1983,35041,17034,66616%
Elementary occupations29,2842,44031,65827,35214%
Armed forces occupations43,7303,64446,67338,80117%

Gap = (men − women) ÷ men, unadjusted for hours, age, occupation within group or industry. Figures are 2022 and do not include enterprises with fewer than 10 employees; wages have risen since. Groups are broad: a nurse and a doctor are not in the same group, but a baker and an electrician are.

NATIONAL Law Source: Statutory minimum wage (MiLoG) + Eurostat earn_mw_cur · Data: from 1 January 2026

The statutory minimum wage is €13.90 per hour from 1 January 2026 (Eurostat shows a full-time monthly equivalent of €2,343 for 2026, €2,161 for 2025). A further step to €14.60 on 1 January 2027 was set by the Minimum Wage Commission and the Federal Government: confirm on the official site. Mini-job earnings limit 2026: €603 a month (€7,236 a year).

Foreigners

NATIONAL (all Germany) Official guidance Source: Make it in Germany, Federal Foreign Office, BAMF · Data: checked 07/11/2026

Rules change often; this is a starting map, not legal advice.

Nearby cities

CITY → nearest of the 50 largest Modelled + official + live Source: GeoNames coordinates (straight-line distance), Eurostat, Bundesagentur feed · Data: 2025

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City ⇅Straight-line km ⇅Population 2025 ⇅Live ads ⇅
Leipzig31 km611,8503,186
Magdeburg76 km244,3291,651
Erfurt86 km218,7931,667
Chemnitz97 km245,6181,196
Potsdam126 km184,754948
Dresden131 km564,9043,635
Braunschweig132 km252,9621,253
Berlin151 km3,685,26518,457

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Momentum

LIVE (Bundesagentur feed, daily snapshot kept by AtiveSite) Own time series Source: AtiveSite daily counts of Bundesagentur ads · Data: tracking since 07/11/2026

Every day we store how many ads are live for Halle (Saale). The Bundesagentur publishes no history, so this series becomes unique data. The trend line appears from the second day of tracking; today: 1,080 live ads.

FAQ

How many people live in Halle (Saale)?

226,767 residents on 1 January 2025 (Eurostat Urban Audit), rank 34 among German cities.

How many jobs are advertised in Halle (Saale)?

1,080 ads published in the last 28 days are live in Halle (Saale) itself in the Bundesagentur feed (counted 07/11/2026).

Which state is Halle (Saale) in?

Halle (Saale) is in Saxony-Anhalt.

Is there a minimum wage in Halle (Saale)?

Yes: €13.90 per hour gross from 1 January 2026, the same everywhere in Germany.

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