Actual and minimum wages increased on average by 2.1% and 2% respectively in 2024. The social partners signatories to the main collective labor agreements (CCT) in Switzerland have agreed on these increases for the current year.
The average increase in actual salaries (+2.1%) was distributed at 0.4% individually and 1.7% collectively, according to a survey by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) published Tuesday.
Within the framework of the main CCTs, i.e. those with at least 1,500 covered people, the social partners have agreed for 2024 on a nominal increase in effective salaries of 2.1% on average (2023: 2.5%; 2022: 0 .8%; 2021: 0.4%; 2020: 0.9%).
Taking into account inflation forecasts for 2024 (+1.2%), real wages in the conventional sector are expected to increase by 0.9% this year. A little over 613,000 people are affected by agreements on effective salaries.
Effective wages increased by 1.9% in the secondary sector and by 2.3% in the tertiary sector, for an overall average of 2.1%.
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A CCT for more than 1.8 million people
The minimum salaries set in the main CCTs were increased by 2% in 2024 (2023: 1.9%; 2022: 0.6%; 2021: 0.2%; 2020: 0.7%). Nearly 1.8 million people benefit from a CCT which contains normative clauses on minimum wages and in which agreements on minimum wages have been concluded.
Minimum wages increased by 1.3% in the secondary sector and by 2.2% in the tertiary sector. The following adaptations were made by sector: hairdressing and beauty care (+4.2%), administrative and support services (+3%), accommodation and catering (+2.3%), commercial employees and personnel of sales (+2.1%), information and communication (+1.9%), manufacturing industry (+1.6%), human health and social action (+1.2%), construction (+0.9% ).
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