IG Metall Tariff Table 2026

The ERA agreement (Entgeltrahmenabkommen) sets the pay structure for Germany's metal and electrical industry, Entgeltgruppen (pay grades), experience steps within each grade, and supplementary payments like T-ZUG and Weihnachtsgeld. What it doesn't set is one single wage figure: IG Metall negotiates separately with each region's own employer association, so the same Entgeltgruppe pays a different amount depending on which Tarifgebiet you're in. Of the 16 German states covered here, 12 negotiate their own distinct Tarifgebiet; Hamburg/Bremen share one identical Tarifgebiet, and Schleswig-Holstein/Mecklenburg-Vorpommern share another, for 14 distinct state-level Tarifgebiete in total. Two of those states, Lower Saxony and Rhineland-Palatinate, also have a further sub-regional Tarifgebiet of their own (Osnabrück-Emsland-Grafschaft Bentheim, and Rheinland-Rheinhessen respectively) that negotiates its own separate wage table for part of the state, bringing this page's total to 18 selectable Tarifgebiete and 16 distinct wage tables overall.

The overview below shows every region's key figures at a glance. Below that, each region's full wage table is available to expand, every Entgeltgruppe and experience step, sourced from the same data behind this site's own ERA calculator.