Wage increase after completion of the "Real Estate Trustee (AFPE)" course
The Advanced Federal Professional Examination (AFPE) for Real Estate Trustees provides you with in-depth specialist knowledge at a high level and leadership skills. These will qualify you to take on demanding and complex specialist and management tasks and to manage companies or set up your own business. By obtaining a federal diplomayour chances of a pay rise increase accordingly.
Important wage factors
The salary or salary development depends on various factors, such as the industry, region, size of the company, professional experience, previous education and age. In terms of salary, the question of whether a new position and function in the previous or another company will be taken up upon graduation is also decisive.
You can calculate your personal salary opportunities with "Salarium", the federal government's salary calculator. We have calculated a possible case to illustrate this. It is intended as an example and shows the statistical average.
Calculation of the possible salary increase with the acquisition of the federal diploma as a real estate trustee
Larissa completed an apprenticeship as a businesswoman (E-Profile) at a large and renowned real estate company in Ticino that offers its customers a 360-degree service. During this time, she was able to continuously expand her expertise in the field of real estate services and obtain a Federal Diploma of Higher Education in Real Estate Management (FPE). Since then, the 29-year-old has worked there for five years at lower management level, earning CHF 5020 a month.
Her Federal Diploma of Higher Education, her excellent way of working and her skill in dealing with other employees were decisive factors in her being able to lead a team of eight people. She was attracted by a job advertisement with the prospect of taking on a senior management position in a small, family-run real estate company in Zurich and applied for the position, but was narrowly unsuccessful. However, her interest and ambition to take on a higher management role in the future were aroused. Shortly afterwards, she enrolled on a preparatory course for the Advanced Federal Professional Examination (AFPE) in Real Estate Trustees and successfully passed the exam three semesters later.
Just after graduating, the real estate company from Zurich contacted her again. The original choice didn't fit and as Larissa now had a correspondingly higher qualification in the bag, the job worked out this time. She has been working there ever since (now 3 years) and can make full use of her broad specialist knowledge. Obtaining her federal diploma and, of course, her excellent performance and commitment to the company and its customers meant thather salary increased by 57.5% to CHF 7904is.
Now calculate your chances of being paid as follows.
Click on the banner "Salarium - statistical wage calculator" (at source) and then on the button "Calculate wage" and select the appropriate details:
- Region: Choose your region / place of work (in the example Ticino, then Zurich)
- Sector: Select 68 Real estate and housing
- Occupational group: Enter the number 33 for "Non-academic business and commercial specialists".
- Position in the company: Choose what you consider realistic, foreseeable or desirable (in the example, first "lower management", then "upper and middle management")
- Hours per week: (42 in the example)
- Education: Choose "Higher Vocational Training, College of Higher Education"
- Age: Your estimated age after completing the continuing education, further training (in the example 29, then 34)
- Years of service: Your number of years of service (in the example 5, then 3)
- Company size: (In the example "50 and more employees", then "Less than 20 employees")
- 12/13 monthly salary: (12 monthly salaries in the example)
- Special payments: No
- Monthly/hourly wage: Monthly wage
Source:Federal Statistical Office
Note: This sample calculation refers to the data from Salarium 2023. A list of other salary calculator tools is availablehere.
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