Canton of GlarusRegister a caregiver in Glarus:
legally and simply.
Found a caregiver for your parents or for yourself? Clino turns it into a proper employment relationship: registration with the compensation office, contract, insurance and payroll. For CHF 19.90/month, whether it's a few hours or around the clock.
No placement agency. You keep your caregiver. Clino takes the official paperwork off your hands.
By the hour, fixed days or live-in
Care by the hour
e.g. 2–3 mornings per week
Shopping, cooking, accompanying to appointments, companionship. The most common starting model. Often complementing Spitex or relieving family members.
Fixed part-time
fixed half-days or days
Reliable structure in daily life: the same person, the same times. From 8 hours per week, non-occupational accident insurance (NBU) is added.
24h care (live-in)
the caregiver lives in the household
Round-the-clock presence with her own room. Board and lodging count as payment in kind (CHF 990/month); on-call presence time is governed by the SECO model NAV.
Your caregiver in Glarus: fully planned.
Set hours and wage. Cost, procedure and insurance appear instantly.
Your Glarus care plan
Responsible office
SV Glarus
online via AHVeasy
Your procedure
Ordinary procedure
Above CHF 22,680/year: monthly accounting, plus BVG pension from age 25.
Accident insurance
- Occupational accident (BU): paid by the employer
- Non-occupational accident (NBU): mandatory from 8 h/week
Your cost per month
≈ CHF 36'846.00 / year
What Clino does for you
- Employment contract ready
- Registration with SV Glarus prepared
- Wage & contributions calculated every month
- ✕No contract: in a dispute, only what you both remember counts
- ✕Accident: the substitute fund pays, you owe 5 years of premiums
- ✕AHV: 5 years of back contributions, fine up to CHF 10'000
- ✓NAV contract: holidays, notice and sick pay settled
- ✓Accident cover from the very first hour
- ✓AHV years for her, payslips for you
How strict are inspections in Glarus?
Even in Glarus, registration is mandatory from the first franc. A single spot check or an accident involving your caregiver can expose an unregistered hire, with fines and back-payments.
With Clino you register your caregiver in minutes. Clino guides you step by step through registration, insurance and payroll.
Register your caregiver nowCanton of GlarusAll of Glarus: one office, one registration
Every municipality, one office: Sozialversicherungen Glarus.
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Canton of Glarus at a glanceHome care in Glarus
Hourly wage
CHF 25–33
market rate
Compensation office
Sozialversicherungen Glarus
AHVeasy
FAK employer
1.40%
2026
Minimum wage
no cantonal
NAV applies
Avg. household wage
CHF 25
/hr
Administration
0.32%
AHV office fee, typical household
Sozialversicherungen Glarus charges an administrative fee of 3.00% of the AHV/IV/EO contributions (AHVV Art. 157, capped at 5%). Expressed against the gross wage that is 0.32%.
If you file online
Filing the annual wage declaration electronically brings the administrative fee down from 3.00% to 2.80% of the AHV/IV/EO contributions. The fund can put the full rate back, for instance after a reminder procedure, so the reduced rate is not an entitlement.
Source: Ausgleichskasse Glarus, Reglement über die Verwaltungskostenbeiträge in der AHV, Stand 1.1.2018
In the long, narrow Glarus valley, outpatient services are well organised but not on site around the clock. Private care fills the evening and weekend gaps.
With one of the lowest FAK rates in Switzerland, ancillary wage costs for employers in Glarus are comparatively low.
If she falls ill: how long you keep paying the wage
How many days of full wage you owe in Glarus depends on the year of service. This is the table that binds here when no policy sits behind it.
Canton Glarus has no sick-pay duty. That is no relief: the wage is still owed, and with no policy behind it you carry it yourself.
Check what applies in your caseSource: NAV Hauswirtschaft GL (GS VIII C/12/3), Art. 14 Abs. 2
Support for care at home
Three levers help carry the cost. The exact amounts depend on the case. The official leaflets are linked.
AHV helplessness allowance
Independent of income and assets, graded by degree of helplessness.
Leaflet 3.01 (ahv-iv.ch) →Supplementary benefits (EL)
When pension and income do not cover living costs.
Leaflet 5.01 (ahv-iv.ch) →How to register your caregiver in Glarus
AHV compensation office · AHVeasy portal
Sozialversicherungen Glarus
Responsible for AHV/IV/EO, ALV, the family-allowance fund (FAK), withholding tax and the wage declaration for household staff.
Open registration form & portal- 1
Register with the Sozialversicherungen Glarus
Register as a private-household employer. Online or by form. You'll receive a billing number. Clino prepares everything.
- 2
Sort out accident insurance
Occupational accident cover is mandatory, NBU from 8 hrs/week. If your compensation office offers VAVplus, select it when you register; otherwise the policy runs directly with an insurer. Clino compares the providers, prices the premium and prepares the application. You sign it.
- 3
Sign the employment contract
Workload, wage, holidays, probation period. For live-in additionally room, board & lodging and presence time. Template from Clino.
- 4
Settle monthly, declare at year-end
A ready-made payslip every month, and the annual wage declaration to the Sozialversicherungen Glarus at year-end. Clino generates both automatically.
Frequently asked questions
Do I really have to register a caregiver in a private household: even by the hour?
Which compensation office is responsible in Glarus?
What may the caregiver take on and what counts as nursing?
What applies to 24-hour care with board and lodging?
Can I use the simplified billing procedure?
My caregiver comes from abroad: what do I need to consider?
What do I risk without registering?
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The registration facts for Glarus
Rates and registration route last checked on July 17, 2026.
The right form
Sozialversicherungen Glarus uses the federal form 318.147 (online). No office visit needed.
Important: under «Employment for», pick «Domestic service», only then does question 4.2 about accident insurance via the compensation office appear.
Simplified procedure
The simplified procedure plus (accident insurance included) is offered, but you must actively request it; it is never automatic. Above CHF 22'680 annual wage, quickly reached full-time, the ordinary procedure with individual withholding tax applies.
Deadlines
Register: within one month of the first working day. Annual wage declaration: by 30 January for the previous year.
After submitting
The confirmation with your settlement number arrives by post, usually within a few weeks. You may already pay wages in the meantime.
Free, no signup, every step, ready to tick off.
In every municipality of Glarus
Registration works the same across the whole canton, whether care takes place in Glarus, Glarus Nord, Glarus Süd or one of the 11 other localities: same compensation office, same procedure, same flat fee.
GlarusGlarus NordGlarus SüdNäfelsMollisNetstalEnnendaMitlödiFilzbachObstaldenSoolEngiMattElm+11
Canton Glarus compared
- The FAK contribution is 1.4%, rank 8 of 26 across Switzerland (ascending).
- The child allowance of CHF 215/month matches the federal minimum.
- The typical hourly wage for home care is around CHF 29 (average across cantons: CHF 31).
- There is no cantonal minimum wage; the NAV domestic-work minimums apply.
Public holidays in Glarus (2026)
These days are assimilated to Sundays (Art. 20a Labour Act). Only 1 August is paid by federal law, whether other holidays are paid depends on the contract or the NAV. Source: SECO, as of 12.12.2024.
This is how fast it goes in Glarus
Clino
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Grüezi! We've found a caregiver in Glarus, what do we need to do now?
09:12Great! Done in 5 minutes: we prepare her registration with the SV Glarus, you sign it, plus the contract + payslips. Valid across the whole canton of Glarus.
09:14New to Switzerland, or cross-border?
Hiring as an expat works exactly the same, in English. And if your helper lives across the border, the cross-border rules apply, AHV and accident insurance stay Swiss, withholding tax depends on her country of residence. The guide explains your case.
Are you the caregiver?
Pay, insurance, your rights, plus a ready-made pack you can send your employer so they register you legally.
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Whoever you employ at home. Clino prepares the registration and the insurance and runs payroll, all for in Glarus.
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