Around 19.8 percent of male employees in Switzerland earned between 5,001 and 6,000 Swiss francs net per month in 2020*. Only 12.3 percent of women were in the same salary class, while the largest share of female employees, at 17.4 percent, earned between 4,001 and 5,000 Swiss francs in the same year.
Distribution of employees in Switzerland 2020, by net salary class and gender
Full-time and part-time employees, private and public sector combined
Supplementary notes
* Gross salary (non-standardized) fewer employees' mandatory and non-mandatory social security contributions. The values refer to the gross salary in October 2020 (including benefits in kind, regularly paid bonuses, sales or commission components), compensation for shift, night and Sunday work, 1/12 of the 13th monthly salary, 1/12 of the annual special payments and earnings from overtime. Family allowances and child allowances are not considered.
Total percentages deviating from 100 percent are presumably due to rounding.
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Bundesamt für Statistik (Schweiz). (March 27, 2022). Distribution of employees in Switzerland 2020, by net salary class and gender [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved January 06, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1489133/income-distribution-by-gender-switzerland/
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