The highest amount of compensation payments came together in North Rhine-Westphalia.
According to the Ministry of Social Affairs there, around 120 million euros were spent on it.
The sums vary considerably from country to country: Bremen compensated affected employees, for example, in the amount of around 4.7 million euros, Rhineland-Palatinate paid around 15.8 million euros, Saxony 25.1 million euros, Bavaria 83 million euros.
The total from a total of 13 federal states is around 458 million euros.
Lower Saxony, Thuringia and Saarland did not provide any information.
If quarantine leads to loss of earnings, those affected are entitled to compensation.
At the same time, the Infection Protection Act stipulates that the claim for compensation can be waived if the quarantine could have been avoided by vaccination.
Baden-Württemberg announced last week that it would no longer pay compensation for unvaccinated people in the event of quarantine from September 15.
Until then, everyone would have had the chance of a corona vaccination, it was said to justify.
No uniform approach
As the epd survey showed, the federal states deal with the topic differently.
While Rhineland-Palatinate no longer wants to pay compensation for unvaccinated people from October 1, Berlin wants to hold on to it.
Quarantine obligations could currently also apply to vaccinated people, for example if symptoms are present or if people are in contact with people infected with virus variants, a spokesman for the Berlin Senate Department for Finance explained the decision.
Many health ministries said that such a regulation or a deadline has not yet been decided.
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein, however, spoke out in favor of a nationwide coordinated approach.