Due to the continuing labour shortage in certain sectors, many companies are recruiting employees from within Switzerland as well as EU and EFTA – Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein – states.
In order to attract qualified workforce, employers pull out all the stops – from high salaries to flexible hours and other perks.
But which professions are most in demand and, therefore, highest-paid?
The answer to this question comes from Indeed recruitment agency in the form of its new analysis showing which professionals earned the highest salaries in the past four years.
Only jobs with a median national salary of at least 80,000 francs were taken into account – in other words, for each profession assessed, half of the employees earned less than 80,000 francs, while the other half earned more.
What were the study's main findings?
Not surprisingly perhaps, top positions in the financial industry (including banking) pay the best overall, with the executives in this sector commanding median annual salaries of 129,590 francs.
However, you don’t have to work with money to earn high wages.
As the analysis indicates, tax and security experts earn 125,000 a year, followed by cybersecurity engineers, with the annual income of 122,000 francs.
Next are senior system engineers (118,010); sales team leaders (117,500); trustee mandate managers (114,579); accounts managers (110,000); IT consultants (108, 889); security specialists (108,333); and branch manager (107,500).
And speaking of (high) wages...
Another recent study, the Michael Page Salary and Hiring Insights Guide 2025, shed light on jobs in Switzerland that have seen the highest pay raises.
These are the highest-paid positions, according to study’s findings:
- Head of Private Banking: 500,000 francs a year
- Chief Investment Officer (in banking and finance) and Chief Financial Officer in multinational companies: 450,000 francs
- Senior Vice President/Chief HR Officer in multinational firms: 400,000 francs
- Chief Operating Officer in Banking and Finance field: 360,000
- Managing Director, Investment Banking or Private Equity; Vice President of Financial Control in multinational firms; Site Head in the field of Health & Lifesciences; Head Regulatory Affairs & Quality Management in the Health & Lifesciences sector; Chief Information Officer in IT; and Legal Counsel – all earn 350,000 a year.
Wages are determined by demand, and according to Yannick Coulange, Managing Director of Michael Page Switzerland, “there is a strong demand for candidates who can tackle business challenges and achieve ambitious sales targets. The demand for professionals in critical sectors like IT, which focus on cost reduction, business process, and optimisation, remains robust.”
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