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Payslip for Domestic Workers: Free, With Your Numbers, as a PDF
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The payslip then adds the holiday supplement. The Federal Supreme Court only allows it for irregular work (BGer 4A_357/2022): if she comes on fixed days every week, tick the box.
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clino.chPayslip January 2026
Employer
Employer name
Canton: Zurich
Employee
Employee name
Wage calculation
Employee deductions
Employer contributions
Payment
Net wage for ________________, payable by the last working day of the month.
Employee and employer contributions for this month, incl. the 5% withholding tax. You, the employer, settle them together with the compensation office once a year, by 30 January 2027.
Simplified billing procedure. Social contributions are settled via the compensation office.
The 5% withholding tax is the flat-rate tax of the simplified procedure and applies to all employees, Swiss and foreign alike. It fully settles the income tax on this wage.
Compensation office: SVA Zürich
Contribution rates: BSV 2025/2026 (bsv.admin.ch) · Suva (suva.ch) | clino.ch/en/sources
Enter the wage and the hours and the payslip is there, every deduction on its own line: AHV/IV/EO, ALV, NBU and the 5 % withholding tax of the simplified procedure. All 26 cantons, 2026 contribution rates, as a PDF to print or to email to your household employee.
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The payslip is ready. What now?
A payslip does not belong in your archive first. It belongs in her hands.
- 1Hand one over every month: your household employee is entitled to a payslip for every wage payment (Art. 323b CO). Paper or PDF does not matter, receiving it does.
- 2Send it with the payment: the payslip and the transfer belong together. If you only settle up at year end you cannot evidence the deductions in a dispute.
- 3Keep a copy for five years: keep every payslip until five years after the last working day. Wage claims can be raised for that long (Art. 128 CO) and the compensation office asks for them during checks.
- 4Collect them for the annual return: early in the year you report the previous year's wages to the compensation office, and the twelve payslips are your basis. In the ordinary procedure you also build the salary certificate from them.
Mandatory details
Both names, the accounting month, gross wage, holiday supplement, every single deduction (AHV/IV/EO, ALV, NBU, plus withholding tax and BVG where they apply) and the net amount paid.
Most common mistake
Transferring the net amount and never issuing a payslip. Your employee cannot check the deductions, and during an inspection you cannot show that you passed them on.
What must be on the payslip?
Every payslip for domestic workers must itemise the following positions:
What is left of the wage?
Enter the gross wage: the slip prints again.
Example. Gross wage including the holiday supplement (8.33 % for 4 weeks of holiday). NBU premium using VAVplus as the example, an option you select when registering.
Paid out CHF 1,046.02, deductions CHF 153.98.
PAYSLIP
Household · month
Every deduction on its own line
On the employer side the same AHV/IV/EO and ALV contributions apply, plus occupational accident insurance (UVG-BU, 0.505 % at the VAVplus rate) and family allowances (FAK, varies by canton). The generator above works out every line. What wage and contributions add up to over a year is worked out in our overview of household help costs.
The simplified billing procedure
Private households can use the simplified procedure as long as each wage stays at or below CHF 22'680 a year and all wages together at or below CHF 60'480. This means:
Lump-sum billing: You report the wages to the cantonal compensation office once a year. It bills AHV/IV/EO, ALV, family allowances and withholding tax on one invoice. Accident insurance (UVG) is separate: a policy of your own or, if you expressly choose it when registering, VAVplus.
Withholding tax of 5 %: In the simplified procedure the withholding tax is 5 % for every employee, with a Swiss passport or without. It is final and replaces ordinary income tax on this wage.
Nothing to declare again: Your employee does not declare this wage in her ordinary tax return. That is why you issue no salary certificate; the compensation office sends her a statement of the withholding tax settled.
More in our step-by-step registration guide. The responsible compensation office depends on your canton of residence. On our cantonal overview you will find the right office with direct links.
Common payslip mistakes
Holiday supplement on a fixed schedule
If your employee works regular, fixed hours, she takes her holidays as paid weeks off. Paying holiday pay as a supplement on every monthly wage instead is only allowed for irregular work (BGer 4A_357/2022), and then it must be shown separately on every payslip.
Treating net pay as gross pay
If you agreed on a net wage, you must first calculate back to the gross wage. The generator handles both.
Not deducting NBU
From 8 hours a week with the same employer, your employee is also insured against non-occupational accidents, and the premium is usually hers: 1.432 % of the wage with VAVplus, or your own policy's rate.
No payslip provided
Your employee is entitled to a written payslip with every wage payment (Art. 323b CO). Tip: email it as a PDF straight from the generator.
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