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Food retail sales jobs in Germany

Field dossier for Food retail sales: who is hiring and where.

In short: Food retail sales has 2,948 live ads in Germany. Top occupations: Fachverkäufer/in - Lebensmittelhandwerk (Fleischerei), Fachverkäufer/in - Lebensmittelhandwerk (Bäckerei), Fachverkäufer/in - Nahrungsmittel.

By AtiveSite · Published 07/11/2026 · Updated 07/11/2026 · Every figure is linked to its source below.

2,948live job ads

0.9%of all ads

Overview

The field Food retail sales (Verkauf von Lebensmitteln) has 2,948 live job ads in Germany today (0.9% of all ads).

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Jobs

LIVE · FIELD (Food retail sales) Live feed Source: Bundesagentur Jobsuche · Data: ads published in the last 28 days · counted 07/11/2026

2,948 live ads. The tables below count ads by field, occupation, employer and place.

Top fields (Berufsfelder)

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Field ⇅	Live ads ⇅	Share ⇅
Retail sales (general)	27,962	948.5%
Warehousing, postal and delivery, freight handling	20,307	688.8%
Mechanical engineering and plant technology	18,115	614.5%
Metalworking	11,831	401.3%
Education and social work	11,253	381.7%
Energy technology	11,252	381.7%
Office and secretariat	9,262	314.2%
Nursing, emergency services and midwifery	8,978	304.5%
Construction and transport machinery operation	8,906	302.1%
Purchasing and sales	8,408	285.2%
Electrical engineering	8,157	276.7%
Metal construction and welding	7,679	260.5%
Accounting, controlling and auditing	7,554	256.2%
Business organisation and strategy	6,864	232.8%
Vehicle, aerospace and shipbuilding technology	6,728	228.2%
Cleaning	6,105	207.1%
Mechatronics and automation	6,046	205.1%
Elderly care	5,636	191.2%
Human and dental medicine	5,288	179.4%
Food preparation (cooking)	5,288	179.4%
Road vehicle driving	5,017	170.2%
Plumbing, heating and air-conditioning	4,885	165.7%
Production planning and control	4,645	157.6%
Hospitality and catering	4,496	152.5%
Computer science / IT	4,446	150.8%

Top occupations

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Occupation ⇅	German title ⇅	Live ads ⇅	Share ⇅
Fachverkäufer/in - Lebensmittelhandwerk (Fleischerei)	Fachverkäufer/in - Lebensmittelhandwerk (Fleischerei)	1,023	34.7%
Fachverkäufer/in - Lebensmittelhandwerk (Bäckerei)	Fachverkäufer/in - Lebensmittelhandwerk (Bäckerei)	982	33.3%
Fachverkäufer/in - Nahrungsmittel	Fachverkäufer/in - Nahrungsmittel	521	17.7%
Verkäufer/in - Nahrungsmittelhandwerk	Verkäufer/in - Nahrungsmittelhandwerk	302	10.2%
Salesperson (retail)	Verkäufer/in	229	7.8%
Fachverkäufer/in - Nahrungsmittelhandwerk (Bäckerei/Konditorei)	Fachverkäufer/in - Nahrungsmittelhandwerk (Bäckerei/Konditorei)	172	5.8%
Sales assistant	Helfer/in - Verkauf	102	3.5%
Fachverkäufer/in - Nahrungsmittelhandwerk (Fleischerei)	Fachverkäufer/in - Nahrungsmittelhandwerk (Fleischerei)	101	3.4%
Fachverkäufer/in - Lebensmittelhandwerk (Konditorei)	Fachverkäufer/in - Lebensmittelhandwerk (Konditorei)	81	2.7%
Kiosk-/Imbissverkäufer/in	Kiosk-/Imbissverkäufer/in	47	1.6%
Kaufmann/-frau - Einzelhandel (Diät- und Reformwaren, Lebensmittel)	Kaufmann/-frau - Einzelhandel (Diät- und Reformwaren, Lebensmittel)	45	1.5%
Einzelhandelskaufmann/-frau	Einzelhandelskaufmann/-frau	23	0.8%
Retail clerk	Kaufmann/-frau - Einzelhandel	22	0.7%
Filialleiter/in, Verkaufsstellenleiter/in	Filialleiter/in, Verkaufsstellenleiter/in	21	0.7%
Servicekraft - Gastronomie und Gastgewerbe	Servicekraft - Gastronomie und Gastgewerbe	19	0.6%
Kassierer/in (Handel)	Kassierer/in (Handel)	15	0.5%
Cook	Koch/Köchin	15	0.5%
Fleischer/in - Verkauf	Fleischer/in - Verkauf	14	0.5%
Gewerbegehilfe/-gehilfin - Bäckerhandwerk	Gewerbegehilfe/-gehilfin - Bäckerhandwerk	11	0.4%
Helfer/in - Gastgewerbe	Helfer/in - Gastgewerbe	10	0.3%
Beikoch/-köchin	Beikoch/-köchin	9	0.3%
Helfer/in - Lebensmittelherstellung	Helfer/in - Lebensmittelherstellung	9	0.3%
Fachkraft - Gastronomie	Fachkraft - Gastronomie	6	0.2%
Gewerbegehilfe/-gehilfin - Fleischerhandwerk	Gewerbegehilfe/-gehilfin - Fleischerhandwerk	5	0.2%
Fachmann/-frau - Systemgastronomie	Fachmann/-frau - Systemgastronomie	4	0.1%

Employers with the most ads

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Employer ⇅	Live ads ⇅	Share ⇅
EDEKA Südwest Stiftung & Co. KG	238	8.1%
REWE	234	7.9%
BILLA AG	141	4.8%
REWE Markt GmbH	94	3.2%
REWE Dortmund SE & Co. KG	83	2.8%
Achim Lohner GmbH & Co.KG	76	2.6%
BILLA AG - BILLA PLUS	69	2.3%
PerZukunft Arbeitsvermittlung GmbH & Co. KG	45	1.5%
BrotHaus GmbH	43	1.5%
EDEKA	42	1.4%
Wilhelm Geiping GmbH & Co. KG Bäckerei W. Geiping Bäckerei W. Geiping	39	1.3%
Backstube Wünsche GmbH	37	1.3%
EN Backwarenvertriebsges. mbH	35	1.2%
Bäckerei Wilhelm Geiping GmbH & Co. KG	34	1.2%
SPAR Supermarkt	33	1.1%
Bäckerei Kraus GmbH	29	1.0%
REWE Markt GmbH ZwNL Ost	29	1.0%
EDEKA Minden-Hannover Zentralverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH	27	0.9%
Schäfer Dein Bäcker GmbH	26	0.9%
Karlchens Backstube GmbH	23	0.8%
REWE-Markt GmbH Zweigniederlassung West	22	0.7%
EUROSPAR	21	0.7%
Familienbäckerei Kistenpfennig GmbH & Co. KG	19	0.6%
EDEKA N-S-T Verwaltungsges. mbH	18	0.6%
REWE Markt GmbH ZwNL Südwest	18	0.6%

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 ⇅
Berlin	87	3.0%
München	45	1.5%
Dortmund	40	1.4%
Köln	36	1.2%
Hamburg	25	0.8%
Münster, Westfalen	25	0.8%
Mainz am Rhein	20	0.7%
Bremen	18	0.6%
Düsseldorf	18	0.6%
Stuttgart	18	0.6%
Salzburg	17	0.6%
Freiburg im Breisgau	14	0.5%
Hannover	14	0.5%
Lüdinghausen	14	0.5%
Nürnberg, Mittelfranken	14	0.5%
Trier	14	0.5%
Bochum	13	0.4%
Wien,Ottakring	13	0.4%
Augsburg, Bayern	12	0.4%
Essen, Ruhr	12	0.4%
Ingolstadt, Donau	12	0.4%
Duisburg	11	0.4%
Leipzig	11	0.4%
Bielefeld	10	0.3%
Dresden	10	0.3%

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

What the ads say (indicators)

Fixed-term95 (3.2%)

Permanent1,324 (44.9%)

Not stated1,529 (51.9%)

Full-time (flag)2,069 (70.2%)

Part-time (flag)1,267 (43.0%)

Shift / night / weekend (flag)335 (11.4%)

Mini-job (flag)68 (2.3%)

Temporary agency work (Zeitarbeit)112 (3.8%)

Open to career changers (Quereinstieg)439 (14.9%)

Ads stating pay: per hour162 (5.5%)

Ads stating pay: per year97 (3.3%)

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

Pay

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 ⇅
Managers	111,275	9,273	122,563	80,940	34%
Professionals	72,211	6,018	82,041	61,320	25%
Technicians and associate professionals	53,017	4,418	62,701	45,472	27%
Clerical support workers	43,425	3,619	47,200	41,008	13%
Service and sales workers	33,728	2,811	34,866	33,155	5%
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers	34,404	2,867	35,714	27,822	22%
Craft and related trades workers	42,566	3,547	43,266	35,525	18%
Plant and machine operators and assemblers	40,198	3,350	41,170	34,666	16%
Elementary occupations	29,284	2,440	31,658	27,352	14%
Armed forces occupations	43,730	3,644	46,673	38,801	17%

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).

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 Food retail sales. The Bundesagentur publishes no history, so this series becomes unique data. The trend line appears from the second day of tracking; today: 2,948 live ads.

Sources

Live jobs: Bundesagentur für Arbeit – Jobsuche (public job-search interface of the Federal Employment Agency; ads published in the last 28 days; counts by facet)
Population by state: Eurostat demo_r_pjangrp3 · employment: lfst_r_lfe2emp · unemployment: lfst_r_lfu3rt · GDP: nama_10r_2gdp · area: reg_area3
City population: Eurostat Urban Audit urb_cpop1 · coordinates: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) · state borders: deutschlandGeoJSON
Earnings: Eurostat earn_ses22_28 (Structure of Earnings Survey 2022) · minimum wage: Eurostat earn_mw_cur and MiLoG
Tax and contributions: § 32a EStG, SGB V, SGB VI, SGB XI, SGB III; average health top-up 2.9%: BMG notice (Bundesanzeiger 10.11.2025)
Law: ArbZG, BUrlG, EFZG, BGB §622, KSchG, MuSchG, BEEG, BetrVG
Immigration and recognition: Make it in Germany, Recognition in Germany, Federal Foreign Office – visa, BAMF

Data gaps we know about (not guessed)

Wages by single occupation, city and state (the official source we use covers 9 broad occupation groups, 2022). The Federal Employment Agency's pay atlas has no public data interface that we could use.
Rents and living costs by city; kindergarten fees (they differ by state and municipality).
Employee headcount by company for all employers: there is no free national register; we show live hiring and, where Wikidata has a dated figure, a reported group-wide headcount.
Union membership numbers and sector-by-sector collective-agreement pay tables.

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