The "Marketing Specialist with Federal Certificate" course provides the knowledge and skills required to take on a management position in marketing, a PR department, advertising, direct marketing or internal sales, etc. The qualification is often associated with a noticeable increase in salary - usually up to 30%.
Calculate your individual salary opportunities as a marketing specialist with just a few clicks using the federal government's salary calculator. We will be happy to provide you with an example of the calculation. Criteria such as industry, region, employer, education, professional experience and age play an important role in the development of your salary. A 30-year-old marketing specialist in further training earns around CHF 5,777 per month in advertising and market research in the Zurich area. After passing the professional examination as a marketing specialist, he takes on specialist tasks and is promoted to a higher salary group. This increases his salary to CHF 6,509.
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 5,777.00. Now go back to the "Training" section and select "Higher vocational training / higher technical college", resulting in a new average salary of CHF 6,509.00. If you then enter "Lower management" under "Position in company", the average salary increases to CHF 7,180.00.
Please note: The calculation is intended as an example and is always a rounded figure. As mentioned above, the salary of a marketing specialist depends on various factors and can vary considerably.
Marco is 27 years old and, after completing his apprenticeship, worked as a customer service clerk for a regional railroad company in Central Switzerland. Two years ago, as part of a reorganization, he was offered the opportunity to develop his career in marketing. As he had already been interested in local projects such as tourism events and sponsoring sporting events, he immediately accepted. His first step was to attend a Markom course to learn the most important basics. He was then allowed to switch to the marketing department and is now gaining his first experience as an assistant to the campaign manager. He is also attending a one-year course to obtain a federal certificate as a marketing specialist. If he passes the federal professional examination next year, he will then be able to take on responsibility for some local projects.
Financial benefits of further training as a marketing specialist
As a marketing specialist, Marco will receive around CHF 1,050 more per month than before and will therefore have at least CHF 458,000 more at his disposal by the time he retires than if he had not done any further training.
If he is also given the opportunity to take on his first management role in the marketing team at the age of 31, a further CHF 447,576 will be added by the time he retires.
And the marketing specialist's salary can still increase significantly, as this theoretical calculation does not take into account any further pay rises, promotions or interest on savings.
Calculation in detail
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Wages were calculated in the federal wage calculator www.salarium.ch with the following settings:
(All figures as at October 2022)
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