Graduating as a sales manager with a federal diploma is preparation for taking on a higher management role, sometimes at management level. This is often associated with significant salary increases. Experience shows that after training as a sales manager, you can earn salary increases of up to 30% or even more in the first two years after graduation.
In individual cases, the development of the salary depends on the specific point in time and other criteria such as sector, region, company or previous training, professional experience and age of the applicant. Calculate your individual opportunities with the help of a salary calculator. We would be happy to show you an example of the calculation for a sales manager. A 29-year-old sales manager in further training earns around CHF 8,166 per month in the wholesale sector in Eastern Switzerland. After passing the professional examination as a sales manager, he takes on management tasks and is promoted to a higher salary group. This increases his salary to CHF 10,519.
This is how you proceed: Click on "Salarium - statistical salary calculator" below and then on the "Calculate salary" button
Source:"Federal Statistical Office, FSO"
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.
The example salary in our calculation is CHF 8,166.00.
Now go back to the item "Position in the company" and select "Upper and middle management", resulting in a new average salary of CHF 10,519.00.
Please note: The calculation is intended as an example and is always a rounded figure. As mentioned above, the salary depends on various factors and sometimes varies greatly.
26-year-old Maria works as a retail specialist in a fashion store for women's underwear in Sarnen. She loves giving personal advice to her customers and is delighted when they are happy with their choice of underwear. Customers appreciate her empathetic and patient manner and her knowledge of how to choose the right underwear for their body shape. Maria would soon like to take on a management role in women's fashion sales. Through further training as a sales manager, she would like to acquire the ability to manage a sales department professionally and to develop sales concepts and sales strategies independently. By gaining a holistic understanding of leadership and additional sales knowledge, Maria can make a significant contribution to the success of the business in a sales manager role. After training as a sales manager with a federal diploma, she will have better salary prospects and development opportunities.
Financial benefits of further training for sales managers
As a sales manager, Maria will receive CHF 1,369 more per month than before and will therefore have at least CHF 562,000 more at her disposal by the time she retires than if she had not taken this further training for the higher professional examination.
As this theoretical calculation does not take into account any further salary increases, promotions or interest on savings, the salary can still increase significantly.
Calculation in detail
Further training for sales managers HFP:
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(All figures as at October 2022)
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