Calculator by Ritzl & Gietz
What does a different workload change? Pay and hours, from any workload to any.
Enter today's pay and workload, choose the target workload. The calculator shows pay at the new workload, weekly hours, hours per working day and the difference per month and year.
Your details
All figures gross, before taxes, social contributions, health insurance premiums and living costs. The calculator works only with your entries, stores nothing and is not legal or tax advice. Questions: hello@ritzl-gietz.ch.
How it is calculated
Every figure has a rule.
- Pay at full workload
- monthly ÷ today's workload
- Pay at the target workload
- pay at full workload × target workload
- Weekly hours
- weekly hours at full workload × workload
Frequently asked
What the law says about it.
Divide the monthly pay by the workload: CHF 5,200 at 80 percent equals CHF 6,500 at full time. Salary ranges and job advertisements almost always state full-time pay, so this figure is the one to compare.
It depends on the full-time weekly hours at the employer. At 42 hours, 80 percent is 33.6 hours a week; at 41 hours, 32.8. Hospitals mostly work with 42 hours, some cantons and care homes with 41 or 41.5.
The holiday weeks stay. Holiday days fall only if you work fewer days a week; if you work the same number of shorter days, you keep every day. The holiday calculator covers this in detail.
The coordination deduction in the occupational pension is a fixed amount and hits part-time pay disproportionately: the insured salary, and with it retirement savings, falls faster than the workload. Some pension funds reduce the deduction in proportion to the workload; ask before you cut back.
The next step: offers with pay, instead of applications.
One profile, reviewed by hand, invisible to your current employer. Verified employers send concrete offers with pay, workload and roster. You reply only when it fits.
Also useful: Salary check: where do you stand?
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