The Federal Employment Agency registered a new high of 192,823 employees subject to social insurance contributions in Bonn on June 30, 2023. Compared to June 2022, employment figures have increased significantly by 2.1% or 3,893 in absolute terms. In the same period, employment in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia grew at a much slower rate of 0.7%. The Rhein-Sieg district surrounding Bonn was even below the NRW average with employment growth of just 0.3%. The analysis based on the Rhineland metropolitan region shows that Bonn was the second best performer here (previous year: 1st place). Only the city of Düsseldorf performed better here, with employment growth of plus 2.4% in 2023. In comparison, the neighboring cities of Cologne with +1.2 percent and Leverkusen with +0.7 percent show significantly lower growth. Bonn is in fourth place across NRW (as in the previous year).

The number of employees subject to social insurance contributions in Bonn's service sector grew significantly between 2022 and 2023, with an increase of 3,834 employees or +2.2%. In mid-2023, 179,470 people are employed in the service sector in Bonn, which corresponds to 93.1% of all employees. This makes Bonn, similar to Frankfurt/Main or Potsdam, one of the largest service locations in Germany. On average in NRW, 74.3% of all employees worked in the tertiary sector in mid-2023. The industrial sector in NRW accounted for around 25.2% of all employees. Compared to the previous year, the number of employees in the manufacturing sector in NRW increased very slightly by +0.1%. In Bonn, employment in manufacturing also increased slightly by +0.4% (+57% in absolute terms). In mid-2023, the share of manufacturing in Bonn was still 6.9% (previous year: 7.0%).

In its statistics, the Federal Employment Agency uses the characteristic "academic degree" to record the degrees "Bachelor's, Diplom, Magister, Master's, state examination, doctorate". On June 30, 2023, the city of Bonn had 34.8 percent of all employees with an academic degree. That is 67,100 employees in absolute terms (previous year: 64,815), with more women (34,846 employees) than men (32,254 employees) now registered with an academic degree. The NRW average is 18.0%, the national average is 19.3% and the figure for the Rhein-Sieg district is 15.1%. A regional comparison with over 400 German cities and districts shows that Bonn is in ninth place (previous year: seventh) and only Munich with 41.3 percent, Erlangen with 38.8 percent, Munich (district) with 37.0 percent, Jena and Stuttgart with 36.2 percent each, Darmstadt with 36.0 percent, Heidelberg with 35.4 percent and Frankfurt a.M. with 34.9 percent can boast even higher figures. From the perspective of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, the cities of Düsseldorf (30.9%), Cologne (28.9%) and Münster (26.5%) also have comparatively high shares in this indicator, which is important for the future in an innovative knowledge society, alongside Bonn with the highest shares.