For software engineers it's not unheard of, but that will be at banks (in specific cases), or FAANG (who have offices in Zurich, typically)

EDIT: I'm a Swiss software engineer if that wasn't clear. I don't make that much though unfortunately :)

Cool, thanks for sharing. It's nice to hear salaries like that are not limited to SV.

It's really not the norm though, to be clear. 500k-1M is really outliers (senior staff engineer with 20 years career in a private bank etc...)

Most of the jobs are "normal bay area" salaries, but cost of living in Switzerland is as high or worse as San Fransisco, roughly.

L6 or L7 at Google can have total compensation in that range.

See https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/Switzerlan... for the very top.

For a more meaningful view of the Swiss market (there's almost only Google on this site for Switzerland), I would have a look at https://swissdevjobs.ch/. There's not a lot above 150k.

For the bankers they do :-).