Salary after completion of the course to become a "certified tourism specialist CHE"
The courses at College of Higher Education (CHE) level provide you with specific specialist knowledge and technical and management skills. These will qualify you to take on demanding specialist and management tasks and to manage a smaller company. With the Advanced Federal Diploma of Higher Education (Achtung: Engl.correspondingly good chances of a wage increase.
Criteria for wage development
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 prospects in employment 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.
Example of an increase in salary with the acquisition of the Advanced Diploma of Higher Education (Achtung: Engl. wie zum Dipliplom Tourismusfachfrau / zum Tourismusfachmann CHE)
Roberto, 23 years old at the time, worked for a small coach company in Basel-Stadt with 10 employees after completing his commercial apprenticeship with BM1. He worked there as a consultant and organized trips on behalf of customers: from the coach to the accommodation and meals in the respective destinations to the tourist activities on site. With his commercial apprenticeship and 5 years of professional experience, he earned CHF 4,651 per month.
Roberto enjoyed his work at the Reisecar company - but he saw his future not only in traditional travel consulting, but also wanted to develop his own projects, preferably with an ecological focus. He therefore decided to take part in continuing education, further training to become a qualified tourism specialist CHE. 3 years later, he passed his final examination with flying colors. In addition to his previous tasks, he was able to tackle his own project to improve the eco-balance of car travel at his employer and thus put his new knowledge to the test in his day-to-day work. Roberto has now been doing his more demanding job for 3 years. He currently earns CHF 5,427 per month,which corresponds to a wage increase of just under 17%.
This is how you can calculate your salary opportunities.
Click on "Salarium - statistical wage calculator" at the bottom of the source, then on the "Calculate wage" button and select the appropriate details:
- Region: Select your region / place of work (in the example Basel-Stadt)
- Sector: Select 79 Travel agencies, Tour operators, Reservation services
- Occupational group: Enter the number 41 for "General office and secretarial staff"
- Position in the company: Select the desired position (in the example "without management function")
- 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 23, then 29)
- Years of service: Your number of years of service (in the example 5, then 3)
- Company size: (In the example "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, FSO
Note: This sample calculation refers to the data from Salarium (end 024). You can find informationhere. A list of other payroll calculator tools is availablehere.
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