Your year as an employer, straight into your calendar
Six answers and you get a calendar file with your deadlines: when the wage declaration is due, when the salary certificate is, when minimum wages change and which public holidays apply at the workplace.
Your situation
Decides which compensation office is competent.
A rough figure is enough. It is only used to see whether you are heading for the simplified-procedure ceiling.
Only if she lives or eats at your home. It counts towards the wage the AHV sees.
Optional. Adds the end of the probation period to the calendar.
What goes into your calendar5
November 2026
- Mon 30Check the holiday balanceCommon practice before year end, not a statutory date: look at how many holiday days are still open and plan them in. On an hourly wage the holiday supplement is already included in the wage.
December 2026
- Fri 25Public holiday: Christmas Day
- Sat 26Public holiday: St Stephen's Day
January 2027
- Fri 01Check the new minimum wagesOn 1 January the NAV Hauswirtschaft rates and the indexed cantonal minimum wages change. Check the hourly rate before you run the first payslip of the year.
- Sat 30File the 2026 wage declaration with the compensation officeDeadline: 30 days after the end of the accounting period, which is this day. You declare the whole AHV-liable wage for 2026, board and lodging included. Many offices now accept the declaration electronically only.
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How to import the file
- iPhone, Mac
- Tap or double-click the file, then “Add All”.
- Outlook
- Open the file. On the web: Add calendar, then “Upload from file”.
- Google Calendar
- On a computer only: Settings, “Import & export”, choose the file. The phone app cannot import.
The file is imported once and does not update itself afterwards. If your situation changes, just download it again.
Why a calendar and not a checklist
A checklist gets read once. The duties of a private household are spread across the whole year, and the expensive mistakes do not come from not knowing: they come from nobody thinking about it in January. This file puts the dates where you are already looking, with a reminder one or two weeks ahead.
Where these dates come from
The wage declaration has to reach the compensation office 30 days after the end of the accounting period, so by 30 January. The NAV Hauswirtschaft rates and the indexed cantonal minimum wages change on 1 January. The probation period lasts one month under Art. 335b CO unless something else was agreed in writing. Public holidays come from the SECO list of Swiss public holidays. The salary-certificate date and the November holiday check are common practice, not statutory dates, and the calendar entry says so.
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