Federal government workers in Switzerland will get a 1% real increase in pay this year, their first real pay increase since 1991. Since 2004 prices have risen by 3.1% and workers have been compensated by one-off payments. These will now be integrated into pay rates. According to a review of the latest pay round by the SGB confederation, pay increases in regional government, the Cantons, range between 2.2% and 3.2% with the increases mostly made up of general rises and other bonuses or performance-related and individual increases.
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Real pay rise for federal government workers
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