Company: BCDRF
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0000891478-25-000054
Chunk: 782

Company: Banco Santander, S.A.
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 20-F
Chunk 782
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 -1,119 |      |     | -1,258 |      |
|                                                                                 |     | -1,521 |      |     | -1,723 |      |     | -1,293 |      |

In the 2024 financial year, it has been decided that there will be no contribution in Spain to the Single Resolution Fund, as well as a decrease in the contribution to the Deposit Guarantee Fund, by the Single Resolution Board (SRB) and the Deposit Guarantee Fund Management Committee, respectively.

The amount of the Group recognises in relation to income from sub-leases of rights of use is not material.

46. Staff costs

a) Breakdown

The detail of Staff costs is as follows:

| EUR million                                                         |     |        |      |     |        |      |     |        |      |
|                                                                     |     |        | 2024 |     |        | 2023 |     |        | 2022 |
| Wages and salaries                                                  |     | 10,923 |      |     | 10,351 |      |     |  9,563 |      |
| Social Security costs                                               |     |  1,714 |      |     |  1,637 |      |     |  1,441 |      |
| Additions to provisions for defined benefit pension plans (note 25) |     |     46 |      |     |     42 |      |     |     65 |      |
| Contributions to defined contribution pension funds                 |     |    357 |      |     |    310 |      |     |    296 |      |
| Other Staff costs                                                   |     |  1,288 |      |     |  1,386 |      |     |  1,182 |      |
|                                                                     |     | 14,328 |      |     | 13,726 |      |     | 12,547 |      |

b) Headcount The number of employees of Grupo Santander at 31 December 2024, 2023 and 2022 is 206,753, 212,764and 206,462, respectively. For the years 2024, 2023 and 2022 the average number of employees of the Group is 209,371, 211,135and 201,516, respectively, being the average number of employees of Banco Santander, S.A. 23,839,