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Wages in SwitzerlandOne in three men earns more than 104,000 fr, women struggle
In 2024, 32% of men very comfortably earned their lives, against 21% of women, according to the Federal Statistics Office.
If they compare their pay slip with their male colleagues, women have something to have migraine.
Imago/ZonarThe Federal Statistics Office (OFS) has published 2024 figures for professional income in Switzerland. No revolution: gender wage gaps remain notable. Thus, among the full -time active people, 32% of men received an annual income greater than 104,000 francs, against only 21.7% of women.
Conversely, women are overrepresented in lower income slices. In 2024, 12.8% of them affected an income of less than 52,000 francs per year at full time, while this proportion is 6.3% among men.
In executives as in prolos
The OFS distinguishes income according to professional categories. And it is not only in the “small” trades that the differences are important. The leaders and senior executives display median revenues from 139,000 francs for men full time, against 120,000 francs for women. In the intellectual and scientific professions, men earn 117,000 francs, women 96,000 francs.
But it is true that the gap also exists in the professions of service, administrative or manual, like employees of the administrative type (83,000 francs for full -time men against 75,000 for women), or unskilled workers (65,000 francs for full -time men, 54,000 francs for women).
Implementation for five years, the equality law, which imposes transparency in their wage policy on large companies, makes a flop, to the point that the Federal Council plans to adjust it speed.
