Employment by professional status in Switzerland
Switzerland: Employment by professional status was 4,886 Persons in 2025. ▲ Rising
Employment by professional status in Switzerland, 1998–2025
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Measured in Persons.
Analysis
Switzerland recorded 4,886 Persons for employment by professional status in 2025. That is the highest value across all 28 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.2% on the previous year and up 7.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, employment by professional status in Switzerland peaked at 4,886 Persons in 2025 and was at its lowest, 3,833 Persons, in 1998.
Switzerland ranks 20th of 33 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 28 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 3,848 Persons | 3,833 Persons | 3,862 Persons | 2 |
| 2000s | 4,035 Persons | 3,879 Persons | 4,268 Persons | 10 |
| 2010s | 4,488 Persons | 4,207 Persons | 4,706 Persons | 10 |
| 2020s | 4,794 Persons | 4,696 Persons | 4,886 Persons | 6 |
Countries ranked near Switzerland
More work & labour data for Switzerland
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Both sexes, annual 0.0651 % change on previous year (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Male, annual growth 0.0485 % change on previous year (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Female, annual growth 0.0817 % change on previous year (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Rural population, annual growth rate -1.4 % change on previous year (2050)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Urban population, annual growth rate 0.6452 % change on previous year (2050)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Urban population 8,038 1000 No (2050)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Rural population 1,842 1000 No (2050)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Female 4,568 1000 No (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Male 4,558 1000 No (2100)
- Population - Est. & Proj. — Total Population - Both sexes 9,126 1000 No (2100)
Frequently asked questions
- What is employment by professional status in Switzerland?
- Employment by professional status in Switzerland was 4,886 Persons in 2025, according to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
- What is the highest employment by professional status recorded in Switzerland?
- The highest recorded value was 4,886 Persons in 2025.
- What is the lowest employment by professional status recorded in Switzerland?
- The lowest recorded value was 3,833 Persons in 1998.
- How does Switzerland rank for employment by professional status?
- Switzerland ranks 20th out of 33 countries with data for 2025.
- Is employment by professional status rising or falling in Switzerland?
- Over the last ten years it is up 7.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Switzerland data come from?
- The figures come from Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as part of Employment by professional status (ICSE-93). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The dataflow "Employment by profesional status (ICSE-93)" is a subset of the “Employment by activites and status (ALFS)” dataset which presents annual labour force statistics for OECD member countries, Brazil and 4 geographical areas (Major Seven, Euro zone, European Union and OECD-Total). This dataflow contains employment statistics for all economic activities broken down by professional status as defined by the ICSE-1993 including employees, employers and own-account workers, and unpaid family workers. Economic activities are defined according to the Major divisions of the International standard International Classification (ISIC) Rev. 4 with the exception of the United-States wich compiled since 2003, employment data by sector following the North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS); NAICS sector are then proxied to ISIC Rev. 4 and are therefore not strictly comparable with other countries’ data. The professional status is defined in the International Classification by status in Employment (ICSE-1993). To be considered as an unpaid family worker, the hour-threshold varies from one hour to 18 hours a week. Data are presented in thousands of persons, or as indices with base year 2015=100. Annual data in this dataset are typically calculated as averages of infra-annual estimates. This can lead to differences with annual data published by National Statistics Institutes.