Archive for the 'Compensation' Category

Chief Executive Salaries

Daniel Vasella remains the most highly paid Chief Executive in Switzerland with 44.2 million francs salary for 2006.
According to the most recent study published by Ethos and presented yesterday in Zurich, the president of Switzerland’s number one pharmaceutical group earned the equivalent of CHF 120,000 / day. His remuneration was actually composed [...]

Executive Recruitment in Switzerland

Surveys of the workplace in Switzerland have shown that medium and large companies continue to have serious difficulties recruiting top executives, finding the accountants, fiduciaries, financial and banking professionals and managers on the Swiss labor market.
There is too much demand for top executives in Switzerland and insufficient human resources to fill the needs [...]

Battle of Swiss Executive Pay

Swiss managers are the highest-paid in Europe, and Swiss rules on transparency and disclosure of executive pay are less stringent than in other European countries. Many blue-chip companies disclose more information than required by Swiss law, which offers companies wide latitude it disclosure.
Switzerland has so far not experienced the sort of public rows over [...]