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Looking for an easy way to calculate your hourly wage? We have one here Hourly Wage Calculator for you who even calculated your salary per week and minute. You can also use it to convert your hourly wage into monthly wages. Who now thinks that the calculator is superfluous forgets that not every month has the same number of working days! The formula for our hourly wage calculator takes this into account.
Furthermore, you will learn in this article how vacation compensation looks like in hourly wages and you will get tips to "keep" more of your salary. Let's start right away with the calculator!
Note on calculating the hourly wage: The calculator takes into account that not all months have the same number of working days. For this purpose, the hourly wage is calculated from the annual salary, for example, as follows:
The Swiss hourly wage calculator can also be used backwards to convert an hourly wage into a monthly wage or an hourly wage into an annual wage. Since you know your hourly wage in this case, simply move the slider from the monthly wage or annual wage until your hourly wage is correct. Set your personal weekly working hours correctly beforehand. You can then read off your calculated monthly wage or annual wage from the slider.
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You can use the calculator above to calculate your hourly vacation compensation. However, there are other points to keep in mind:
Hourly workers who expect vacation pay and compensation on public holidays are not always happy in Switzerland. On public holidays, for example, hourly workers do not receive mandatory wage payments - except on the national holiday of August 1. Here, there is a legal obligation to pay wages, but not on all other holidays. Of course, the employer can always arrange for wages to be paid voluntarily.
The situation is different for vacations, hourly wages Vacation compensation is clearly regulated. Since in hourly wages work is exchanged for wages, no compensation is due during vacation periods. For this there is a Hourly wage vacation compensation of at least 8.33%, to compensate for vacations and vacations not taken.
Here, however, one must now be a little more precise. According to Art. 329d para. 2 CO
May vacations not be compensated by cash benefits. Therefore, if the vacation was never taken, the employer must compensate the employee for it upon termination of the employment relationship. again remunerate.
Exception: In the case of irregular employment and part-time employees, holidays may be deducted, in which case the hourly holiday allowance must be listed separately in the individual employment contract. At least at the following rates:
To avoid discussions, it is recommended that the vacation allowance is not paid on an ongoing basis, but only when the vacation is actually taken. The listing on the pay slip should nevertheless contain the calculation of the vacation allowance on a monthly basis.
By the way, if you want to calculate the AHV contributions for hourly wage earners, you can find helpful online calculators from most cantons. Here is the link to the AHV calculator of the SVA Zurich.
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If you would like to use the above formula from the Swiss hourly wage calculator yourself, we have it here for you. We have not created an extra Calculate hourly wage Excel template because the formula is very simple.
For the calculation of the hourly wage from the monthly wage calculate:
For the calculation of the hourly wage from the annual wage calculate:
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Calculating the hourly wage is very easy, especially if you use our hourly wage calculator. To get as much as possible out of your salary, there are tips such as simplified payroll accounting. This saves for example Taxesif you work part-time.
There are still points to consider for the payroll and the AHV contributions, but the above links are very helpful. An inexpensive bank account for your salary which will save you many fees annually, you will find in the financial tips.
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You can convert hourly wages into monthly wages as follows:
Hourly wage x number of working hours per week x 4 = monthly wage
Example: CHF 35 x 40 hours x 4 = CHF 5,600
Would you like to reduce your workload from 100% to 60% and are wondering what will happen to your salary?
You can do this conveniently with our Percentage calculator and enter your previous salary and the desired workload.
Alternatively, here is the formula:
Previous salary x 0.6 = 60% salary
An 80% workload is exciting for many, but you should know the impact of missing a day on your salary.
Use our Percentage calculator and enter your desired 80% workload and your previous gross salary. You will then see your new salary, which is 20% lower.
Alternatively, here is the formula:
Previous salary x 0.8 = 80% salary
8 responses
Hello Eric
I have a net hourly wage of 45.00, how do I calculate the gross wage? AHV + holiday allowance 8.33 %
Thank you for your answer
Hello Heidy,
The easiest way is probably to look at your payslip.
Otherwise you could use a gross/net calculator backwards. You can find other suitable calculators via Google.
Dear greetings
Eric
Good day
2 questions:
a) We calculate the year 2023 for hourly-paid employees in the pension fund. Now we need to determine the degree of employment. Are the hours worked set in relation to the gross or net annual hours for the calculation of the BG?
b) Are daily sickness benefits received also to be taken into account when determining the annual hours and converted into hours?
Thank you for your feedback
Hello
Had a gross salary of 6800.-fr
I still have 128 rest days too few and 142 hours of overtime to calculate.
Good day
I have hired my employee on an hourly wage (for administrative reasons, changing working hours etc.) but she should not have any disadvantages compared to a monthly wage. Is the calculated hourly wage the so-called basic hourly wage, to which I have to add the 13th and holidays or is this already included in the calculation? Thank you very much for your answer.
Kind regards
Nina Baumann, Flora di Berna
Hello Nina
The hourly wage calculator is based on the annual salary. Depending on whether you have fixed this at 12 or 13 parts, it is converted to the month 🙂
Good day
Can you help me with my example?
Case: Employment on an hourly wage. Let us assume that Mr. Mustermann earns 50.-/hour.
With a working week of 45 hours.
How do you get the net value if you want to include 20 days' holiday and a 13th month's pay?
I look forward to their reply, thank you very much!
Hello Franziska
here is another good one Wage calculator. I hope it helps you at least partially!