Crossing the border can double your salary.
More than 6,000 vacant jobs and, within five years, nearly 16,000 recruitments that will have to be carried out. A country that makes many workers dream, both for its environment and its particularly attractive salaries, Switzerland is nonetheless faced with a shortage of a certain number of professionals, particularly in key sectors. Like its neighboring states, it is struggling to hire. An opportunity to earn a better living for many French people, while 215,000 French people already cross the border several times a week to go to work.
It must be said that on the other side of the Alps, the appeal of a much higher salary is attractive. Double that, for the same job, while it is in tension in both countries, that is to say that job offers are more numerous than the number of professionals. A phenomenon particularly noted in a highly sought-after sector and whose workforce prospects tend to decrease in the next five years.
According to a study by X28, a Swiss company that analyzes the labor market, 25 professions are particularly sought after in the country, including six that have more than 3,000 job offers to fill. Among them, one that is paid twice as much as in France, with the same qualifications: that of nurse. X28’s figures show that nearly 6,400 people are sought after in this field and, according to a group of Swiss associations, federations, NGOs and unions, the country will need 15,900 additional nurses by 2029.
A boon for workers from border countries, particularly France? Possible. In terms of salary, Jobup, mainly a Swiss job search platform, displays a median salary of more than €65,000 net per year, or around €5,500. Naturally, even higher offers exist. A dizzying remuneration compared to those practiced in France where professionals in the sector only receive a salary of around €2,000/2,500 net per month, or between €24,000 and €30,000 annually. This is a job in a public hospital or a private structure, with the liberal allowing you to receive an even higher salary.
While the opportunity may be tempting for many French people, it will undeniably lead to a knock-on effect. “Switzerland’s recruitment abroad is a negative point for the countries from which the workers come, because they in turn lose qualified personnel,” Mathieu Grobéty, director of Créa, the institute of applied economics at HEC Lausanne, pointed out to Viewwhile conceding that “Switzerland remains very attractive in terms of quality of life and salary conditions.”
While reading this data can obviously encourage you to look for work on the other side of the Alps, many financial elements must be taken into account, including the level of daily expenses. For example, an estimate made by Crédit Agricole Suisse shows that a person earning around 5,000 euros net per month will have around 4,000 to 4,500 euros in monthly expenses (housing, insurance, taxes, transport, food, etc.). Enough to put aside a little nest egg.