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Average Swiss salaries: high, stable, yet not enough for many
2026-04-30
This is what it’s about ✨ AI-generated, editorially reviewed High but steady salaries: The median full-time salary in Switzerland reached CHF 6,788 in 2022, continuing a long-term upward trend with relatively stable income distribution across earners since 2008. Inequality and differences persist: Salaries vary widely by region, education, industry, and gender—women still earn 9.5% less …
Switzerland expands as Europe contracts and neither is happy
2026-04-28
A Swissinfo analysis unpacks how demographic change and workforce migration are transforming Europe and Switzerland. There is no viable roadmap for the future, limited winners, and profound disruptions on the horizon. In hospitals in the German-speaking region of Switzerland, rather than using local dialects, people speak standard German. Without foreign staff, the Swiss healthcare system …
More Swiss working beyond retirement age
2026-04-27
The share of people aged 64 and older in the overall workforce in Switzerland has more than doubled since 2005, according to new figures from the Swiss Labour Force Survey. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Twenty years ago, around 87,000 people were working after reaching the standard retirement age; …
Indirect CO2 emissions achilles heel of large Swiss firms
2026-04-20
Leading Swiss companies have not made much progress in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, according to news agency Awp. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This is the result of Awp analysis of sustainability data, which examined the available environmental balance sheets published by the 20 companies included in the …
Three-quarters of Swiss use AI in everyday life: survey
2026-04-02
More than three-quarters of the adult population in Switzerland (76%) use artificial intelligence tools in their daily lives. This figure is up significantly compared to last year (62.4%), reveals a survey published on Thursday by comparison web portal Comparis. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox According to the survey, young people, …
Swiss city draws positive results after three years of controlled cannabis sales
2026-03-19
Authorities in the city of Basel have drawn a positive interim conclusion following three years of regulated cannabis sales in the city on the Rhine. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Thanks to the Weed Care pilot project, the inhalation of smoke from joints containing tobacco has fallen significantly, the cantonal …
Gender pay gap widens slightly in Switzerland
2026-03-02
Switzerland has moved up one place to 20th in a ranking of equality in the workplace, but its situation is stagnating. The pay gap between men and women has widened to 17.4% and the proportion of women working full-time has fallen, according to the PwC 2026 index. + Get the most important news from Switzerland …
Swiss authorities predict worsening housing shortage in 2026
2026-01-17
The director of the Federal Office for Housing, Martin Tschirren, expects the housing shortage in Switzerland to get worse this year. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox “The causes of the housing shortage cannot be changed so quickly,” Tschirren told Blick newspaper in an interview on Saturday. The causes include …
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