well, now i have 100k + 10% bonus and other company offered me 85 chf / hour . That's much more for me, although i will probably also have to pay a lot higher taxes if i move from Zurich to Basel-Stadt.

I was told few times by my collegues that i'm slighty underpaid (10+ years of experience as unix/linux admin should give something around 120k) , but money is not everything so i didn't care that much... But now when the company situation changes, and i'm loosing job security anyway, why not do the contracting? perm job without job security doesn't make much sense i would say and our department might be outsourced soon.

i will of course read the contract IF i will get an offer at all, i'm just curious how it might look and what is the standard - that's why i ask in advance. I never did any contracting