Wage after completing the UAS Architecture degree as "Bachelor of Arts (UAS) in Architecture"
Studying to become an architect at a University of Applied Sciences provides you with fundamental, holistic and at the same time professionally qualifying specialist knowledge and skills. These will qualify you to carry out responsible tasks independently as part of a team.Your salary prospects therefore look good if you have a Bachelor's degree.
The salary depends not only on the industry, but also on other factors such as the region, size of the company, professional experience, previous education and age. In terms of salary, another decisive factor is whether the qualification leads to a new position and function in the previous company or another company.
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 salary upon obtaining a Bachelor's degree as an architect UAS
Sereina comes from a family of architects. She knew early on what she wanted to be when she grew up: an architect. This made her parents particularly happy, as she would be able to take over her parents' architecture firm when the time was right.
After high school, Seraina completed a one-year internship at a large architecture firm in Zurich to see if architecture was really her calling outside of the family environment. She really enjoyed the internship and it confirmed that she wanted to study architecture.
As she wanted a very practice-oriented education, she looked for a suitable University of Applied Sciences in Zurich. Thanks to her one-year internship, she was able to start studying architecture without any conditions. Sereina opted for the part-time study option and continued to work part-time at her previous architectural firm in Zurich.
Wage with UAS degree
Sereina completed her Bachelor's degree at the University of Applied Sciences with excellent grades and soon afterwards took up a junior position as an architect in her previous company. She was now 24 years old.She received a salary of CHF 7,812.
This is how you can calculate your salary opportunities: Click on the "Salarium - statistical wage calculator" banner below (at source), then on the "Calculate wage" button and select the appropriate details:
- Region: Select your region / place of work (Zurich in the example)
- Industry: Select 41 "Building construction"
- Occupational group: Enter the number 21 for "Scientists, mathematicians and engineers"
- Position in the company: Select "Lower management"
- Hours per week: (42 in the example)
- Education: Choose "University of Applied Sciences (UAS), University of Teacher Education (UTE)"
- Age: Enter your estimated age after completing the continuing education, further training (24 in the example)
- Years of service: Enter your number of years of service (4 in the example)
- Company size: (In the example "50 and more employees")
- 12/13 monthly salary: (12 monthly salaries in the example)
- Special payments: Select No
- Monthly/hourly wage: Select monthly wage
Source:Federal Statistical Office (FSO)
Note: This sample calculation refers to the data from Salarium (end of 2024). You can find informationhere. A list of other payroll calculator tools is availablehere.
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