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Work and earnings · Switzerland

What does Switzerland earn?

Compare gross monthly salaries by profession, then explore the official national figures.

2024 · CHF gross per month · standardised full-time

Median monthly salary

7,024

10% earn less than

4,635

10% earn more than

12,526

How do professions compare?

Median, all ages and sexes. Broad CH-ISCO-19 occupation groups; these are jobs, not household incomes.

Managers
10,208
Professionals
9,027
Technicians and associate professionals
7,523
Clerical support workers
6,370
Service and sales workers
5,136
Skilled agriculture, forestry and fishery workers
5,670
Craft and related trades workers
6,190
Plant and machine operators, assemblers
5,897
Elementary occupations
5,120

How have salaries changed?

National median in current francs. These are nominal salary levels, not inflation-adjusted purchasing power.

2012
6,439
2014
6,427
2016
6,502
2018
6,538
2020
6,665
2022
6,788
2024
7,024

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Detailed occupation labels are published in German by the source.

Observation year: 2024

Median monthly salary

7,024

10% earn less than

4,635

10% earn more than

12,526

This table supports profession × age × sex. Industry, education and employer tenure belong to separate tables and cannot be combined with a profession here. Switzerland only; no canton estimates.

2024

Education and responsibility

Separate source table; these are descriptive comparisons, not the effect of education on an individual salary.

University / ETH
10,533
University of applied sciences / teacher education
9,288
Higher vocational qualification
8,562
Teaching certificate
8,619
Academic or vocational baccalaureate
6,631
Completed vocational training
6,390
In-company training
5,556
Compulsory school, no completed vocational training
5,183

Professional position

Senior and middle management
11,174
Lower management
9,493
Responsible for executing work
7,740
No management function
6,368
Sources and definitions

Swiss Earnings Structure Survey (LSE), private and public sectors combined. Gross monthly salary is standardised to a 40-hour week and 4⅓ weeks, including proportional 13th salary and annual special payments; family and child allowances are excluded. The median divides jobs into two equal halves.

† Statistically uncertain source value. Suppressed and missing cells stay unavailable. The API’s legacy updated field is not used as a publication date.

Retrieved: 2026-10-31

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