More like: already making 100k at this age 
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I am just really impressed and admirable about your current number, so congratulations!
I wouldn’t except this salary in my field without long academic study and before 28 years old (if everything went ok; SPOILER: nope).
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Actuary working at a big Swiss company
2017 : 27.5k (in Italy)
2018 : 58.5k (moved to CH mid-year)
2019 : 92k + 5k bonus
2020 : 108k + 14k bonus (promotion)
2021 : 114k + 18k bonus
2022 : 132k + 20k bonus (promotion)
Next year bonus should be higher given the promotion was effective from 1st Jan.
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We always need more, the trick to happiness is to realize when we’ve reached “enough” and should focus our efforts on other aspects of our life. 
I’m also impressed by all the promotions y’all seem to be receiving, as well as your salary progressions. I’ve been trying to break the 100K threshold for 2 years with no avail and I doubt I can get over 150K without launching my own study/taking one over (civil engineering).
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I am a valuation actuary and have been recently promoted to a Team Lead role
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Example for masters: I finished my masters last October, and received three offers from 89-105k at the more ‘normal’ employers, with Swisscom being the highest offer of those.
Ended up at a place offering almost double that. SW engineering, crypto startup style, research heavy. Hiring if anyone’s interested…
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Wow that’s impressive.
2x base or you are counting options et al.?
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Very special situation: 100% base, no bonus/options. Reasoning comes from crypto complications with accounting, lawyers, and tax law. Not worth discussing here
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And it’s paid in CHF?
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This is me responding yes in more than 20 characters to Giff
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2004: 55K CHF
2006: 60K CHF
2008: 85K CHF
2009: 87.5K CHF
2010: 90K CHF
2011: 105K CHF
2014: 120K CHF
2016: 125K CHF
2020: 130K CHF
2021: 150K CHF
2022: 155K CHF
Tech Lead / Engineering Manager in a Startup in ZH.
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2014 : 90k Sales/Planning/Process engineer for wastewater treatment, small increments until
2020 : 104k + 6k Spesenpauschale + 12k max bonus (but actually got 14k and 18.5k in 2020 resp. 2021) + car. Salesman in chemical distribution company, environmental sector
2022 : 130k + 7k bonus + other smallish perks which adds up to around 140k Operations Director of a wastewater treatment plant + canal network
Edit : chemical process engineer with a specialisation into environment
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- maintained by parents (I was studying)
- 84’162 (2019/2020)
- 92’183 (2020/2021)
- 100’230 (2021/2022)
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I think I’m doing something wrong… I’m really far from everyone here.
2020 : 67k
2022 : should be around 78k
I have 2 Federal Diploma of Higher Education, one in sales and the other in marketing. Started as apprenticeship in a print company and moved to marketing.
And I’m looking for a complementary income solution since I can barely provide for my family.
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Don’t compare yourself to the people here in the forum or at least the ones posting their salary here, it’s not really a good benchmark in my opinion unless you work in IT, management or upper finance jobs.
I have a pretty decent salary compared to the average person at my age, but when I looked at some of the salaries here, I thought my salary is sh** xD
Also you had a pretty good increaae from 67k to 78k, that’s more than 16% in 2 years.
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We choose mostly to prioritze our child education instead of money so my wife doesn’t have income at the moment. No fancy things and one holiday to my wife’s country for her and the child every year (sometimes every 2 years) except covid situation.
I just did a change of the job so I hope this augmentation will help. But I just saw an augmentation of my tax income even if for 2 years I didn’t had any raise… haha So I think it will nullified my raise at the end.
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Thanks for your ideas,
We live in a sub urban cities 20mn from Bern, its not an expensive city with absurd rents. We do go to Germany or France but mostly lidl once every week.
We do between 800-1k for food each month. I had a 12 years old car but had to change. My new job is 50km from where I live and started my first leasing for a small car. because I didn’t have enough money for a 10k car. Lower than this price might imply higher cost reparation. I hate it but it’s still lower than the AG train. I’m low everywhere, every insurance with necessary security for a family I think, phone cost, internet, etc. I don’t have room for improvement on this level.
Anyway, on my budget cost, yearly, I’m around an average of 5k3 of expense monthly for a family of 3.
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Even if you manage to make some reduction, having only one parent working explain why it is not easy to provide for a family of 3 with one salary.
Be strong for the next few years and hopefully your partner will be able to work again.
Thanks everyone for your answer.
I’m always open for new ideas. Regarding of lowering expanse, I’ll look again.
I wish to go to the university path, but with only me providing for my family, I didn’t found any concrete solution in Switzerland without avoiding lowering my job percentage. I do some e-learning to improve myself, but without certification.
I would avoid solutions lowering your income and increasing your expenses for a prolonged period of time in your situation, so I’d avoid regular university but could favor evening/weekend lessons if that’s the path you want to take. I’m not convinced university is the path toward a better salary for you either but I don’t know your situation so may very well be wrong. You do have a set of skills, identifying the ones you lack to go further and getting them on an experience (personal practice), self-learning or e-learning basis may yield good results.
However and to be blunt, given the situation you describe, I think the solutions lie rather with your partner than with you. Unless some special conditions warrant it and if I understand correctly that they are not currently working, then the situation should allow for either some extra income (doesn’t need to be tiring, it can even be a social experience, like taking care of the local library) or more efficiency in regards to expenses (there is a lot that can be saved in food, clothes and appliances by do-it-yourself craftsmanship). Of course, this might not hold if your child requires permanent care but if that’s the case, then it should be a transitory phase and better times should be ahead.
Then again, your recent salary increases are significant already and should make a difference in your disposable means given some time. This difference should help further on if you want to use it to improve the situation even more.
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