Working as a teacher in Switzerland
What official sources say about working as a teacher in Switzerland: what the occupation group earns, how foreign qualifications are recognised and which shortage list names it.
In Switzerland, the occupation group "Professionals", which includes teachers, earns ≈ 9,453 EUR/month (gross, 2022). Teacher is a regulated profession in Switzerland. Foreign qualifications go through: General system of recognition - primary application. In Switzerland, teachers are listed on the EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals"
- ≈ 9,453 EUR/month (gross, 2022)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- General system of recognition - primary application
- Shortage list
- Listed
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals" in Switzerland: ≈ 9,453 EUR/month (gross, 2022), from Eurostat. An occupation group is wider than one job title: it is the pay of everyone the group holds, not of teachers alone.
Regulation and recognition
Teacher is a regulated profession in Switzerland.
- Recognition route
- General system of recognition - primary application. EDK compares the foreign diploma individually with the Swiss qualification for each requested school level and subject; substantial differences can require compensatory measures. The applicant must hold full, unrestricted teaching authorisation in the country of training.
- Recognition authority
- EDK (Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education) for primary, lower-secondary and baccalaureate-school teaching diplomas; vocational-school teachers apply to SERI.
- Language requirement
- For EDK recognition: C2 in a Swiss national language for teaching national-language subjects; C1 in each foreign-language subject taught; B2 in a Swiss national language if teaching only foreign languages. Accepted certificates must test all four skills and be officially recognised.
Shortage list
An exact current shortage-list record is published for teacher in Switzerland: EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Teacher in Switzerland: salary, recognition and shortage status [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 17877074572bf5c34387014c9708a564]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/teacher/switzerland/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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