Switzerland · Income · 2023 data
Am I rich in Switzerland?
Enter your household income after tax. See your percentile, and what it actually means.
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Data: Eurostat — Distribution of income by quantiles (ilc_di01) and Mean/median income (ilc_di03) · income year 2023, survey wave 2024
Income distribution in Switzerland
Each bar is a slice of Switzerland households. The cyan marker shows where you sit; the threshold flags below mark the median, top 10% and top 1%.
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What the numbers actually say
Useful framings, not slogans.
To join the top 10%, earn about 1.9× the median.
About 1.9× the typical household in Switzerland.
60% of Switzerland lives between CHF 32'783 and CHF 75'402.
If you're in this band, you're 'normal', by the data.
The top 1% earn 4.0× the typical household.
It's a gulf, not a gap.
Cross CHF 117'295 and you've outearned 95% of Switzerland.
The top 5% starts here.
The average (CHF 58'882) sits well above the median.
A few very high earners pull the mean up; the median is the truer middle.
A top-10% household earns 3.7× the bottom 10%.
The full spread of Switzerland, in one number.
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