Wage increase after completion of the "Real Estate Trustee (HFP)" course

The Higher Professional Examination for Real Estate Trustees provides you with in-depth specialist knowledge at a high level and leadership skills. This will qualify you to take on demanding and complex specialist and management tasks and to manage companies or set up your own business. Obtaining a federal diploma increases your chances of earning a higher salary.

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 with the degree 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 commercial clerk (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 specialist knowledge in the field of real estate services and obtain a federal certificate for "Real Estate Manager (BP)". Since then, the 29-year-old has worked there for five years at lower management level, earning CHF 5020 per month.

Her federal certificate, her excellent working style 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 higher professional examination for real estate trustees and successfully passed the federal examination three semesters later.

Just after graduating, the real estate company from Zurich contacted her again. The original choice was not a good 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 (3 years now) and can make full use of her broad specialist knowledge. The acquisition of the federal diploma and, of course, her excellent performance and commitment to the company and its customers led to her salary rising by 57.5% to CHF 7904.

This is how you can calculate your salary opportunities: Click on the banner "Salarium - statistical salary calculator" below and then on the "Calculate salary" button and select the appropriate details:

• REGION: Select your region / place of work (in the example Ticino, then Zurich)
• INDUSTRY: Select 68 Real estate and housing
• PROFESSIONAL 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 OF THE WEEK: (42 in the example)
• EDUCATION Select "Higher vocational training, higher technical college"
• AGE: Your estimated age after completing the 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 WAGES: (12 monthly wages in the example)
• SPECIAL PAYMENTS: No
• MONTHLY / HOURLY WAGE: Monthly wage

Source:Federal Statistical Office

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.

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