The gender pay gap is marked among cultural workers in Switzerland. (symbolic image)
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Switzerland had 285,000 cultural workers in 2023, which represents 5.6% of the active population. Half have a part-time job. In terms of salary, a strong disparity is noted between the sexes.
In culture, atypical working conditions are very widespread, wrote the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) on Monday: 50% of people have a part-time job (compared to 38% of all workers), 14% have several jobs (8% in the economy in general) and the share of self-employed people (27%) is significantly higher than in the economy in general (14%).
According to the definition of the EU Statistical Office (Eurostat), culture also includes the media, architecture, video games and advertising, areas that largely call on creativity.
In Switzerland, full-time cultural workers earned a median salary of 69,600 francs in 2023. The disparity is strong between the sexes: a woman earned 78,000 francs compared to 98,000 francs for a man.
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