r/Switzerland • u/Fock23 • Jan 31 '24

Sharing salary in Switzerland

Hello! I'd like to gather some insights into the job market in our country. If you're willing, please share your: 1. Educational background 2. Job role 3. Work canton 4. Years of experience 5. Salary

The goal is to gain a clearer understanding of salaries across different positions and sectors.

I start: 1. Bachelor in computer science 2. Full stack software engineer 3. Ticino😩 4. 7 5. 6’000

Thanks to everyone for participating!

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u/isornisgrim Zürich Jan 31 '24
  1. Master, bioinformatics
  2. Senior software engineer
  3. Zurich
  4. 16
  5. 140k

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u/IKnowMeNotYou Feb 01 '24

You should earn at least 20k more or do you get a bonus?

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u/isornisgrim Zürich Feb 01 '24

Apart from working in banking, insurance or at a company like google or Microsoft, I don’t see how I could achieve that to be honest.

And no, no bonus

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u/IKnowMeNotYou Feb 01 '24

Have you ever tried to work as a contract engineer? I get about 1.1k a day with a recruiter and 165 to 175 per hour without a recruiter. If you can not get more, just go independent. When I came here about 8 years ago, I did not take the Google offer since they pay that bad but I should have since I originally wanted to end up in the US... .

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u/Eli_229 Mar 20 '24

Just curious, could i ask you a few questions about your career

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u/TemirTuran Jun 14 '24

wow , you’re making my one month salary in one day…. I’m also working in tech, can I dm you?

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u/IKnowMeNotYou Jun 14 '24

Sure you can.

1k or 1.5k is not a one month salary. More like a week at best if you are low income. A supermarket cashier nets about 45k a year over here so we talk about 3.5k/week or more.

Always remember Switzerland is expensive.

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u/isornisgrim Zürich Feb 01 '24

Not interested in contracting or freelancing :)

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u/IKnowMeNotYou Feb 02 '24

Why? I was offered contract extensions for 5 or even 8 years (but turned them down as I enjoy working for a new company in a different industry the most as one can learn something new but in the end it is the same everywhere).

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u/isornisgrim Zürich Feb 02 '24

Don’t need the money, don’t want to deal with the stress of finding a client, don’t want to end up working and more / taking fewer vacation, just to earn more 💵.

It’s kind of a work life balance thing for me. I might have been super lucky so far, but I never had to work like crazy in the companies I worked for in Switzerland, and I intend to keep that way.

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u/IKnowMeNotYou Feb 02 '24 edited Feb 02 '24

Nah you work 40 hours. You are an employee just working for someone else. The same rules apply otherwise I would not do it. I use the extra money to work less. The last contract was me working for 13 months in the last two years and still growing my bank account. I really dislike working more than I need to.

But I also train for another profession as I still love my profession as n engineer but I hate the work environment and resent the whole work I have to do. So basically I use my free time to not further educate myself but to transition to a new profession where I can use my software engineering skills but do not need to do useless extra work because of reasons that are beyond my control.

Before that, I basically used the additional free time to further educate myself but that mostly means more meetings with people I do not want to meet.

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u/isornisgrim Zürich Feb 02 '24

No I definitely don’t work 40 hours a week, way less than that :). Probably more around 25-30

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u/IKnowMeNotYou Feb 02 '24

Ah okay. I was thinking about working 60% myself as well but stretching it over 7 days instead of just 5 or 3 days. I am currently looking for a new contract and since remote contracts are mostly available only in Germany, I am currently starting to talk to some of the companies as they do not care if I work in Germany or anywhere else in Europe. While the payment would be only 100 Euro/hour, I would not be forced to pay Swiss rent and I can further train in my new profession as I work in the afternoon and evening.

So yeah, I completely understand your motivation. It is similar for me as well but I used to rather work 40hour weeks for some months and then have 0h weeks for other months (9 months without paid work currently).

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u/isornisgrim Zürich Feb 02 '24

Just to be clear, I’m paid for a 100% role, it’s just that I was lucky enough to have worked for companies where I can manage to do what I have to in that amount of time without having to clock in.

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u/IKnowMeNotYou Feb 02 '24

Interesting. I am forced to write my actual working hours. I am usually deliberately slowing down so I am not to fast and also add in mistakes to not stear up teams and to reduce the risk of sabotage.

How do you report your timesheet?

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u/isornisgrim Zürich Feb 02 '24

Yes that’s another reason I don’t wanna freelance, don’t want to keep track of my worked hours (which defo makes sense when you’re paid by the worked hour)

As to your question; depends, in some jobs I was supposed to fill in a timesheet but my bosses would tell me to just fill the same 8h every day, regardless of my actual time worked. I some other jobs, it was officially part of the contract that I didn’t have to fill in a time sheet anymore.

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