Novartis salary

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Hi folks!

I'll be heading to Basel for a job interview in Novartis soon. I've been wondering if anyone here works there as a Scientific Associate. Currently I work in Germany when I get 50k EUR/year (ca. 2430 netto/month, steuerklasse 1). What would be equivalent in Basel to live life on the same level?

I had a look to Glassdoor's salaries and for this position there are two entires: 67k-83k CHF (Scientifique associé), 113,260 CHF (Scientific associate). It's quite a difference...

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Have you done a forum search for one of the thousand salary and living costs threads on the forum? No? Well, please do so.

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Of course I've done and still reading since quite a while. I just wanted to talk with somebody who maybe works at this position and can give a first-hand feedback

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Code for: "No actually, I haven't searched and I am too lazy to do so".

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If you say so...

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Simple, you ́ll find out if they offer you the salary.

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This one is difficult to answer as at Novartis this job title could be in different internal levels => different salary ranges.

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Now that you have learned how lazy you are and been judged by the almighty council in here, congrats.

Have a look at

https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home.../salarium.html

Could help you with a benchmark on the specific position in Basel.

Good luck

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That one is in my experience pretty generic and not always reliable. (It doesn ́t even recognize my job :-) )

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Thanks a lot for your input! I'll have a look :-) Lesson learnt

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As usual impossible to answer without further context.

However, if you earn 50k in Germany, this will probably not be matched in big pharma for that type of job and in Swiss terms, i.e. you are unlikely to earn a salary that gives you an equivalent lifestyle in Switzerland to the one you currently have on your high salary in Germany.

In terms of what would be an equivalent salary to 50k, plenty of information on that on this forum.

Any online salary calculator gives you at best an extremely rough idea. Salarium in particular - many people from outside CH will probably choose "academic profession", generating a ridiculously high salary that is nowhere near realistic.

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Director of a high school in Sion is paid CHF 173,000/year (saw it once in a job posting on cantonal site and almost choked on the apple I happened to be eating at the moment)

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From what 'others say' at Roche in Penzberg I could get a way more than 50k but I applied a couple of times and always got rejected.

After having a look to the Solarium and selecting:

- Branche: Forschung und Entwicklung

- Berufsgruppe: Ingenieurtechnische und vergleichbare Fachkräfte

- Stufe 3+4: Unteres Kader (no idea what Stufe could have a scientific associate

...it shows 8500-8700 CHF gross/month.. what would be really great for me.

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You're not "unteres Kader", you have no direct reports on that role, you're an individual contributor - level 5 in that Salarium thing.

You are unlikely to be paid > 100k base comp for that role. Unless maybe you have 15 years of experience.

Also, Roche isn't Novartis and the salary gap between the two has increased.

That's, uhm, reasonable

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So at the risk of getting loads of groans, does Novartis or Roche pay better? what about Bayer?

Thanks

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I can't add anything to the salaries at Novartis question.

Best wishes for the interview and hope you get the great job you want.

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That's an outrageous annual salary.

It should be the monthly net.

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I don't have a lot of insight, but I'd guess it's between 85-100k CHF, plus the 15%, or so, performance bonus. On that salary, you'll probably feel that it's a world away to be in Basel vs Germany. But if you are modest in some areas, it makes spending the extra in others to be worth it. Good luck!