°Wage level and wage differences
	Wage differences by sex: median of monthly full-time gross wages 2006, in Swiss francs
	All employees
By age	Women	Men
< 20 years	3570	3777
20–29 years	4328	4730
30–39 years	5417	6118
40–49 years	5267	6650
50–64 years	5259	6849
65 y. and over	4533	5720
	Employees without management function		Employees in lower management		Employees in middle and upper management
By education	Women	Men	Women	Men	Women	Men
Without vocational qualification	3886	4726	4233	5256	4833	5810
With vocational qualification	4845	5524	5418	6563	6014	7437
‘Matura’	5490	6257	6846	8774	6786	10000
Higher vocational qualif., technical college	6297	7271	6825	8062	7559	8970
University of applied sciences/ college of education	6809	7980	7423	8775	8753	10609
University	7282	8391	8578	9959	10261	13333
	Wage differences between men and women in % of men's median wages
	CH	DE	FR	SE	UK	US	IT	AT
1980			19.7	14.5	35.3	36.6		35.1
1981			19.0	16.9	34.0	35.2
1982			18.2	15.3	34.2	34.7
1983			17.6	16.2	33.1	34.3
1984		29.5	17.2	17.6	33.6	33.4
1985		27.0	17.0	18.4	33.6	33.0
1986		29.0	16.2	16.8	33.5	32.2	18.8
1987		28.2	16.2	16.4	33.0	31.0	17.6	32.6
1988		26.5	15.3	19.2	32.5	30.1	19.4	32.9
1989		27.8	15.3	21.2	32.2	29.4	19.5	32.6
1990		27.2	15.3	19.6	31.2	28.5	19.5	32.2
1991	26.4	27.1	15.4	19.6	29.5	26.6	18.7	31.7
1992	25.8	25.5	14.7	19.1	28.4	25.1	17.9	31.1
1993	27.8	23.7	13.2	18.8	27.1	23.9	16.3	30.8
1994	27.3	23.7	11.2	17.3	26.4	23.9	16.7	30.8
1995	25.5	23.5	10.3	19.0	26.6	24.6	17.1	31.2
1996	24.8	23.7	9.9	16.5	25.6	23.8	16.7	31.7
1997	26.5	23.6	9.8	16.6	25.3	23.8		32.3
1998	23.6	23.8	9.5	16.8	25.2	23.3		32.8
1999	23.6	23.2	10.0	16.8	23.9	24.6		32.9
2000	25.7	23.0	10.8	15.5	24.0	24.5
2001	23.6	25.1	11.8	16.6	23.1	24.1
2002	23.8	24.1	11.7	15.9	22.1	22.4
2003	22.6			14.9	20.0	21.6
2004				14.8