Swiss household employment
CTT-EDom: Geneva's own contract for household work
Also written: CTT-EDom (Genf) · CTT-EDom · CTT-EDom (Ginevra)
What is the CTT-EDom and why is Geneva different?
Geneva does not use the federal standard contract for domestic work. It has its own binding standard contract, the CTT-EDom, which covers everyone employed in a private household in the canton: cleaning, cooking, laundry, errands, childcare, care of older or disabled people, gardening and other household staff. Its minimum wages are graded by qualification and are the highest household wages in Switzerland.
What it means if you employ someone at home
If your home is in Geneva, the rung that matches your Helper's qualification and the work is the least you may pay, and for a gardener with a federal diploma it is the highest household rate in the country. Helpore resolves the rung from the Helper's declared qualification and the work agreed, and applies it to every contract at a Geneva address.
You are the employer. With Helpore Admin, Helpore prepares a contract if you want one and, under your signed power of attorney, files the declarations and produces the payslip in your name; with Admin Light, Helpore prepares the maths and the documents and you file and pay. Both are optional. You stay the employer in every case and can also do all of this yourself.
The numbers
The binding hourly minimums from 1 January 2026:
- Without a qualification
- CHF 24.59 / hour
- AFP, or four years of experience
- CHF 24.85 / hour
- CFC
- CHF 25.11 / hour
- CFC in horticulture
- CHF 26.78 / hour
Common questions
Does the CTT-EDom cover a nanny or only cleaners?
Yes, it covers a nanny as well as cleaners: art. 1 al. 2 names childcare in a private household in its scope, as it names cooks, gardeners, chauffeurs and carers. Under art. 1 al. 3 it does not apply to spouses and registered partners, to direct ascendants and descendants and their spouses and registered partners, or to cohabiting partners. Under art. 1 al. 4 it does not apply either to workers under the standard contracts for home care organisations, au pairs, minor au pairs or agriculture, or to workers under an extended collective agreement, subject to the collective agreement for temporary work. Nor does it apply to recognised household apprentices, household workers subject to federal or cantonal public law or to public international law, private domestic staff of persons with privileges and immunities, or nursing staff who need a licence to practise. Also excluded are people who look after children outside the family (childminders, midday care); young people in training who work occasionally, such as babysitting, within art. 34d AHVV; and personal secretaries and administrative assistants.
My Helper lives in France. Does Geneva's rule still apply?
Yes. The rule follows the household's address, not the worker's residence. A cross border commuter working in a Geneva home is owed the Geneva rate.