Gender wage gap persists in Switzerland

Women in Switzerland are still paid around 12% less than their male colleagues for doing the same work, depending on the occupational group. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox A full-time employed person received a median wage of CHF81,500 in 2024, according to the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) based on the Swiss Labor Force Survey (SLFS). This means that half of full-time workers earned more, the other half less. A full-time employee is defined as someone working 90% or more of the day. Men earned CHF90,800 full-time and women CHF80,000. This corresponds to a 12% lower wage for women. The difference is even more striking among self-employed women, whose median salary of CHF65,000 is almost a quarter lower than that of men at CHF84,000. For executives and senior managers, compensation is CHF139,000 for men and CHF120,000 for women, approximately 14%, the report added. According to the FSO, large differences were evident in intellectual and scientific ...