Personnel statistics 2025

The personnel statistics cover companies licensed by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority(FINMA) and were first extended to health insurers in 2006. Since then, employees of health insurers who work in the supplementary (non-mandatory) business have also been included.

Employees in Switzerland

Swiss private insurers employ 50,513 people in Switzerland. Of these, 55.7 percent are men and 44.3 percent are women. Compared with the previous year, the figure remained almost constant at +0.2 percent.

Full-time employees

In Swiss private insurance, 36,053 people are employed full-time. This corresponds to a share of 71.4 percent.

Part-time employees

The share of part-time employees in Swiss private insurance is 28.6 percent. The trend over the last ten years shows a slight increase in part-time workloads. Women account for 72.2 percent of all part-time employees, while men, at 27.8 percent, work part-time significantly less by comparison.

Trainees

Swiss private insurers employ 2,101 trainees. That is just over 4 percent of all employees of Swiss private insurers.

Members of the Executive Board

In the Swiss private insurance sector, 1,830 members of the executive board are employed. The share of women has risen to around 26.0 percent

Management

The number of management employees in the Swiss private insurance sector amounts to 14,060 people. That is 27.8 percent of all employees. The share of women is 35.5 percent.

Advisers

Swiss private insurers employ 12,588 customer advisers. The share of women is around 23.2 percent.