In this nearby country, a field recruits more than 16,000 candidates with much higher salaries than back home. On your CV!
Go far from France to earn a better living? This is what thousands of fellow citizens do, sometimes going very far away to work… But you don’t always need to travel a lot of miles to find a job that pays well. Close to France, a country recruits thousands of candidates in a particular field according to online job offers. And the salaries are enough to make you dream.
Indeed, a border country is facing a shortage of employees in the field of health and care. The professions actively sought by employers concern positions of specialist doctors, pharmacists, medical assistants or even midwives… In total, in this field overall, there are between 14,000 and 16,000 positions to be filled according to data from job sites such as Jobup Or Jobs.ch. “The aging of the population increases the demand for medical personnel. At the same time, cost pressure is forcing hospitals to improve their efficiency, which impacts the workforce structure“, even specifies Adeccogroup.com. in his report entitled Adecco Labor Shortage Index 2025/2026.
But one profession in particular in the health field is in dire need of candidates: that of nurse, both in general and specialized care. And this is happening in a country renowned for its high standard of living, its economic stability as well as the quality of its infrastructure, we are talking about Switzerland. And the salaries are dizzying compared to what nurses earn in France: depending on the canton (Geneva, Vaud, Zurich, Valais/Jura), a beginner can hope to earn the equivalent of 77,000 euros gross annually and up to 124,000 euros beyond 10 years of experience. And, thanks to geographical proximity, it is sometimes even possible to work in Switzerland while living in France. Enough to gain very significantly in purchasing power because, in Switzerland, the cost of living is very high.
On the other hand, if the shortage is real in the field of health – and other sectors such as construction or engineering are in tension – the Radio Télévision Suisse website recently denied a rumor that the country would be looking for “85,000 people“in all sectors with”salaries between 3500 and 6500 euros“Our colleagues have traced the origin of this astonishing figure.
“In January 2022, the director of Dynajobs (employment agency, editor’s note) published an analysis of the post-coronavirus labor market, in which he estimated that there is a shortage of around 85,000 qualified workers in Switzerland to reach the level of growth before the health crisis.“A useful clarification so as not to transform Switzerland into an employment Eldorado for the French.
