Loyalty bonus

ETH Zurich thanks you for your loyalty and your hard work.

When calculating years of service, we count not only time at ETH Zurich but also employment with external page EPFL, external page PSI, external page WSL, external page Empa und external page Eawag, the external page Federal Administration and the external page ETH Board. Apprenticeships and internships, however, do not count. Non-consecutive years of service are added together.

Anniversaries

After 10 years of employment at ETH Zurich, employees can choose between a loyalty bonus of time/paid vacation or extra compensation. This bonus is issued every five years. If an employee chooses paid vacation, they have to take it within five years. Otherwise it expires and cannot be paid out afterwards. Therefore we recommend that employees create a binding plan with their supervisor about how they will use their holiday credit as soon as they receive it.

If an employee chooses the payout option, the sum will be added to their next salary payment.

The loyalty bonus option paid leave is also mentioned in the information sheet Download "Uniform implementation of working hours" (PDF, 41 KB).