Hi,

Lots of questions about salaries in Switzerland in this forum and I thought it might worth doing a survey. So here goes.

can you out in a final option, along the lines of "i'm a big fibber"

No,
Sorry no more options, maximum allowed 6.

Well, comparing my own salary and your very first entry, we probably don't belong to the same world...

Hi,
Can you make this sticky for a week perhaps so people see it?

Or just delete it and use the search function to find the identical thread from several months ago.

Someone is in the process of negotiating their salary I think...

Basic net salary?

When did you last here someone quote their net salary or negotiate net. the survey is gonna be gross.

The options are not great though. Not a great difference if you earn 100 or 120 in lifestyle terms i reckon and their are enough people in this town who take home more that 160k.

What's your definition of 'salary'?

Martin

Jekyll,

This survey you are refering to is almost a year old. Evidently you have been in a coma for the past six months.

I wish I was in a coma after reading such drivel. Clearly you haven't comprehended the difference between gross and net salary.

I'd close this self satisfying pish now.... unless someones knob is small enough to feel they have to shout about what they earn.... or should we have a poll about cars to.... oh and how may houses we own

All been done before

Salaries

Corbets, thanks for your interesting imput . I guess your to busy knob watching to even add an opinion.... or maybe your just too busy counting your dough and your valet hasn't fired up your computer yet.

Just curious but I was always taught that talking about such things was crude and rather rude so... well... I guess some people see it differently.. Whole heartedly agree with PG.

Signal:Noise of this duplicate thread
0.5:50000000

Not to defend this particular question, but I think if forum veterans are going to constantly take the position that "it's all been done before..." then we are not going to have much to discuss. There are a LOT of newbies that have come on to the board in the last few months, so of course there is going to be a fair amount of discussion over old topics.

Threads that are 6-12 months old might not be relevant. Things change. Prices/salaries/restaurants...even opinions. A few years ago, we even had this same discussion and some of today's veterans were newbies back then. Maybe we should remember those days. I probably could have even cut-and-pasted one of my old posts.

fduvall

I have always had this theory that the "idea of talking about money being rude" was made up by the people in charge in companies so that employees would not compare salaries and therefore ask for salary rises.

If I don't know what other people in my profession are earning it can only benefit the companies.

I second the need for more information on salaries, but you have to keep in mind that there can be significant variance, depending on the kind of company, skills required for a given job, profile of the employee, and availability of skills on the market when the employee was hired.

I have posted this info before, but am happy to inform newcomers again :

The Swiss authorities love to know whats going on and have no problem to share their knowledge. So there is a lot of research on salaries publicly available not based on "what forum members would like to earn", but on the actual taxed income. You can gat huge excel sheets from the Bundesamt for statistics, but I personally prefer the very entertaining klickable map (sorry, but in German...):
http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/d...h_branche.html

my findings:
- Women are treated way more unfair than I expected.
- the regional differences by industry are huge (of course you cannot compare a city with the countryside as costs of living are so different, but Geneva and Zurich are for example comparable)

Have fun, I clicked around half a day when i found it the first time... and happy negotiations

Chris