The individual salary increase after completing the professional examination in art therapy to become an art therapist with a federal diploma is very difficult to estimate and depends on various criteria such as the region of work, the industry, the employer, professional experience and age. Take a look at our salary calculation example for art therapists (HFP).
It features a 35-year-old theater painter in the canton of Uri who is studying to become an art therapist (HFP).
This is how you proceed: Click on "Salarium - statistical salary calculator" below and then on the "Calculate salary" button
Source:"Federal Statistical Office, FSO"
Note: This sample calculation refers to the data of Salarium 2023, this service is temporarily interrupted. Information can be foundhere. A list of other payroll calculator tools is availablehere.
The example salary in our calculation is CHF 5,176.00 per month.
Now go back to "Industry" and select "86 Healthcare" and "Occupational group" and select "22 Academic and allied healthcare professions" and under "Position in company" select "Lower management" and under "Training" select "Higher vocational training". This results in a new average salary of CHF 7,317.00.
Please note: The figures you receive here are statistical averages. This means that your actual future salary may differ slightly - but you can get an idea of where it will be.
Anna works as a specialist in psychiatric nursing and care in a psychiatric clinic in Frauenfeld. The 24-year-old really enjoys her work providing care and support to people with a mental health impairment. Together with the clients, Anna shapes their everyday lives and supports them in dealing with the individual effects of their illness. Over the years, she has developed a deep understanding of the lives of people with mental health impairments. Anna demonstrates empathy, high resilience and good communication skills in her work. In her private life, she balances out her sometimes stressful work by dancing or painting. Anna would also like to use her artistic interest and creativity professionally. She is convinced that she could use artistic means to support her work in psychiatric care in a meaningful way. Anna would like to complete further training as an art therapist in order to accompany and support people through change processes, crises and illnesses with art therapy. Art should activate the resources and self-healing powers of her clients and promote their self-awareness, creativity and personal development. Anna wants to teach mentally ill people how to deal creatively with their problems through images, music, dance, poetry, theater and new media. By completing the art therapy course, she would like to specialize in intermedia therapy in the field of psychiatry. After obtaining her federal diploma, Anna would like to use the artistic medium that suits the client and reflect on the results together with them. This enables her to create an interest and a sense of community in order to facilitate a successful relationship with mental health problems. After the higher professional examination, Anna has increased her market value and salary as well as numerous new opportunities for further development in the future.
Financial benefits of further training as an art therapist
As an art therapist, Anna will receive CHF 3,074 more per month than before and will therefore have at least CHF 1.30 million more at her disposal by the time she retires than if she had not taken this further training for the higher professional examination.
As this theoretical calculation does not take into account any further salary increases, promotions or interest on savings, the salary can still increase significantly.
Calculation in detail
Further training as an art therapist HFP:
Wage difference and yield calculation:
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(All figures as at November 2022)
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