Swiss Salary Benchmarks
Choose a role and city to compare annual gross pay with an official-data benchmark. This is not a tax or gross-to-net calculator.
What these benchmarks measure
The pages use official FSO Earnings Structure Survey distributions by broad occupation and gross region. They show annualised gross-pay reference ranges and a transparent percentile comparison; they do not calculate taxes, deductions or net salary.
Important limits
A city is represented by its wider FSO gross region, and each role is mapped to a broad CH-ISCO occupation group. Experience bands are derived from distribution percentiles. Individual employers, specialties, bonuses and contract conditions may differ materially.
- Software Engineer – Zurich
- Software Engineer – Geneva
- Software Engineer – Basel
- Software Engineer – Lausanne
- Software Engineer – Bern
- Software Engineer – Zug
- Data Scientist – Zurich
- Data Scientist – Geneva
- Data Scientist – Basel
- Data Scientist – Lausanne
- Data Scientist – Bern
- Data Scientist – Zug
- Product Manager – Zurich
- Product Manager – Geneva
- Product Manager – Basel
- Product Manager – Lausanne
- Product Manager – Bern
- Product Manager – Zug
- Project Manager – Zurich
- Project Manager – Geneva
- Project Manager – Basel
- Project Manager – Lausanne
- Project Manager – Bern
- Project Manager – Zug
- Marketing Manager – Zurich
- Marketing Manager – Geneva
- Marketing Manager – Basel
- Marketing Manager – Lausanne
- Marketing Manager – Bern
- Marketing Manager – Zug
- Registered Nurse – Zurich
- Registered Nurse – Geneva
- Registered Nurse – Basel
- Registered Nurse – Lausanne
- Registered Nurse – Bern
- Registered Nurse – Zug
- Accountant – Zurich
- Accountant – Geneva
- Accountant – Basel
- Accountant – Lausanne
- Accountant – Bern
- Accountant – Zug
- Civil Engineer – Zurich
- Civil Engineer – Geneva
- Civil Engineer – Basel
- Civil Engineer – Lausanne
- Civil Engineer – Bern
- Civil Engineer – Zug