SOFTWARE DEVELOPER / SALARY
SWITZERLAND

SALARY SURVEYS

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94,547 CHF

$112,316 USD

Zurich

105,974 CHF

90,072 CHF

$107,000 USD

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Average Salary / Software Developer / Switzerland

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Average salary for Software Developer / Switzerland is 94,547 CHF per year. The most typical earning is 90,072 CHF. All data are based on 33 salary surveys. Salaries are different between men and women. Men receive an average salary of 94,534 CHF. Women receive a salary of n/a.

Based on education, the highest salaries receive people with Some College with salary of 101,353 CHF. The second most paid education level is Bachelors Degree with salary of 99,585 CHF.

Different experiences affect earning as well. People with 20+ Years of experience receive salary of 166,761 CHF. Employees with 12-16 Years of experience receive 128,206 CHF.

Levels / Software Developer / Switzerland (Gross CHF)

Salary Levels (CHF) per Year	Surveys	[%]
8,400 CHF - 12,599 CHF	0	n/a
12,600 CHF - 16,799 CHF	0	n/a
16,800 CHF - 20,999 CHF	1	100% 3.03%
21,000 CHF - 25,299 CHF	0	n/a
25,300 CHF - 29,499 CHF	0	n/a
29,500 CHF - 33,699 CHF	0	n/a
33,700 CHF - 37,899 CHF	0	n/a
37,900 CHF - 42,099 CHF	1	96.97% 3.03%
42,100 CHF - 46,299 CHF	0	n/a
46,300 CHF - 50,499 CHF	0	n/a
50,500 CHF - 54,699 CHF	0	n/a
54,700 CHF - 58,899 CHF	1	93.94% 3.03%
58,900 CHF - 63,099 CHF	0	n/a
63,100 CHF - 67,299 CHF	2	90.91% 6.06%
67,300 CHF - 71,599 CHF	1	84.85% 3.03%
71,600 CHF - 75,799 CHF	2	81.82% 6.06%
75,800 CHF - 79,999 CHF	1	75.76% 3.03%
80,000 CHF - 84,199 CHF	3	72.73% 9.09%
84,200 CHF - 88,399 CHF	2	63.64% 6.06%
THE MOST TYPICAL SALARY
88,400 CHF - 92,599 CHF	6	57.58% 18.18%
92,600 CHF - 96,799 CHF	0	n/a
96,800 CHF - 100,999 CHF	3	39.39% 9.09%
101,000 CHF - 105,199 CHF	4	30.3% 12.12%
105,200 CHF - 109,399 CHF	1	18.18% 3.03%
109,400 CHF - 113,599 CHF	1	15.15% 3.03%
113,600 CHF - 117,899 CHF	0	n/a
117,900 CHF - 122,099 CHF	1	12.12% 3.03%
122,100 CHF - 126,299 CHF	1	9.09% 3.03%
HIGH SALARIES
126,300 CHF - 134,699 CHF	0	n/a
134,700 CHF - 143,099 CHF	0	n/a
143,100 CHF - 151,499 CHF	0	n/a
151,500 CHF - 159,899 CHF	0	n/a
159,900 CHF - 168,399 CHF	0	n/a
168,400 CHF - 176,799 CHF	0	n/a
176,800 CHF - 185,199 CHF	0	n/a
185,200 CHF - 193,599 CHF	0	n/a
193,600 CHF - 201,999 CHF	1	6.06% 3.03%
202,000 CHF - 210,399 CHF	0	n/a
210,500 CHF - 294,599 CHF	1	3.03% 3.03%

Gender / Software Developer / Switzerland (Gross CHF)

#		Surveys		AVERAGE SALARY / YEAR
1	Men	33	94,534 CHF

Education / Software Developer / Switzerland (Gross CHF)

#		Surveys
1	Some College	3	101,353 CHF
2	Bachelors Degree	10	99,585 CHF
3	Masters Degree	17	92,682 CHF
4	Doctorate Degree	1	86,368 CHF
5	High School	2	79,297 CHF

Experience / Software Developer / Switzerland (Gross CHF)

#		Surveys
1	20+ Years	2	166,761 CHF
2	12-16 Years	3	128,206 CHF
3	8-12 Years	2	116,842 CHF
4	16-20 Years	2	104,467 CHF
5	4-8 Years	4	101,016 CHF
6	2-4 Years	11	89,399 CHF
7	0-1 Year	5	66,334 CHF
8	1-2 Years	4	59,936 CHF

Age / Software Developer / Switzerland (Gross CHF)

#		Surveys
1	41-45	4	139,823 CHF
2	31-35	8	106,908 CHF
3	36-40	4	104,131 CHF
4	46-50	1	89,904 CHF
5	26-30	12	84,180 CHF
6	21-25	3	56,990 CHF
7	14-20	1	18,014 CHF

Work Type / Software Developer / Switzerland (Gross CHF)

#		Surveys
1	Contract	9	113,054 CHF
2	Permanent	22	88,894 CHF
3	Part Time	2	73,573 CHF

Cities / Software Developer / Switzerland (Gross CHF)

#		Surveys
1	Lucerne	3	108,592 CHF
2	Zurich	18	105,982 CHF
3	Lugano	2	100,174 CHF
4	Lausanne	3	81,149 CHF
5	Geneva	4	72,226 CHF
6	Bern	1	57,495 CHF
7	Basel	2	48,319 CHF

People's individual salary examples (surveys)

Informatiker Efz

Posted 15 July 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Python."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Bern	High School	1-2 Years	Advanced	57,500 CHF

Software Engineer

Posted 14 July 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Software Engineer."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Zurich	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	Advanced	104,600 CHF

Software Engineer

Posted 22 March 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Software."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Zurich	Masters Degree	2-4 Years	Intermediate	91,400 CHF

Web Developer

Posted 03 January 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Developer."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Basel	Bachelors Degree	0-1 Year	Basic	78,600 CHF

Data Scientist

Posted 29 August 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Developing main product of a saas company."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Zurich	Masters Degree	0-1 Year	Intermediate	73,900 CHF

System Specialist

Posted 01 July 2021

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Geneva	Masters Degree	0-1 Year	Advanced	90,000 CHF

Senior Engineer

Posted 28 June 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Engineer."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Zurich	Some College	12-16 Years	Expert	196,000 CHF

Salesforce Architect / Developer

Posted 10 December 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Salesforce system development and maintenance."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Zurich	High School	4-8 Years	n/a	101,000 CHF

Software Developer

Posted 27 November 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Angular CSS Typescript."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Zurich	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	82,900 CHF

Software Developer

Posted 28 August 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Java spring sql."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Zurich	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	103,600 CHF

Computer Vision Engineer

Posted 07 June 2020
Key knowledge and tasks

"Research algorithms."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Lausanne	Doctorate Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	86,400 CHF

Software Engineer

Posted 07 December 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Design, development and maintenance of multiple software systems. Technologies used: React, AngularJs, SpringBoot, Java 11, Typescript, HTML5, CSS, SCSS, Docker, Linux, . . ."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Zurich	Bachelors Degree	1-2 Years	n/a	67,200 CHF

Front End Developer

Posted 05 November 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Develop and maintain UI."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Geneva	Masters Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	66,300 CHF

Software Engineer

Posted 30 October 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Software engineer."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Lausanne	Masters Degree	1-2 Years	n/a	73,100 CHF

Full-stack Dev

Posted 30 October 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Full stack developer."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Geneva	Bachelors Degree	1-2 Years	n/a	42,000 CHF

Computer Graphic, Vision

Posted 25 August 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Graphic programming, opengl, vision, image detection, 3d reconstruction, r & d."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Zurich	Masters Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	100,800 CHF

Data Scientist

Posted 01 May 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Machine learning."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Lausanne	Masters Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	84,000 CHF

Senior Software Engineer

Posted 01 April 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Java senior software engineer."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Zurich	Masters Degree	16-20 Years	n/a	90,700 CHF

Consultant

Posted 16 January 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Provide testing mission at our clients."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Geneva	Masters Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	90,700 CHF

Software All-rounder

Posted 05 January 2019
Key knowledge and tasks

"Development, Business Analysis, Testing, Project Management."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Zurich	Bachelors Degree	20+ Years	n/a	243,600 CHF

Senior Software Developer

Posted 16 November 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Develop new sw, infrastructure maintenance, manage 5 people's work."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Lugano	Some College	20+ Years	n/a	89,900 CHF

Data Scientist

Posted 03 November 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Analysing data and creating machine learning models."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Zurich	Masters Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	80,900 CHF

Validación Engineer

Posted 16 October 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Senior Test analyst."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Lucerne	Bachelors Degree	12-16 Years	n/a	98,900 CHF

Senjor Software Engeneer

Posted 10 September 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Senjor Software Engeneer."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Zurich	Masters Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	107,900 CHF

Senior Front-end Developer

Posted 20 May 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Front-End development, Angular, AngularJS, PHP and Node. js."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Lucerne	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	103,400 CHF

Devops Engineer

Posted 15 April 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"Infrastructure, security, cloud solutions."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Zurich	Masters Degree	4-8 Years	n/a	98,900 CHF

Software Developer

Posted 08 February 2018
Key knowledge and tasks

"I programm new Applications in C# and Java."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Basel	Some College	0-1 Year	n/a	18,000 CHF

Software Developer

Posted 01 December 2017
Key knowledge and tasks

"C++ Software Developer in Lugano."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Lugano	Masters Degree	8-12 Years	n/a	110,400 CHF

Java Developer

Posted 21 August 2017
Key knowledge and tasks

"Creating app for bank. Moved here from Poland."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Zurich	Masters Degree	2-4 Years	n/a	84,900 CHF

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER / SALARY SWITZERLAND

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94,547 CHF

105,974 CHF

90,072 CHF

Average Salary / Software Developer / Switzerland

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Gender / Software Developer / Switzerland (Gross CHF)

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People's individual salary examples (surveys)

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