With admirable regularity, the financial news outlet «Bloomberg» revisits the salary of the SNB Chairman: «SNB's Jordan Is Still The Million Dollar Central Banker», it wrote in 2024 (article, paywalled). And now, in March, when the SNB published its 2025 annual report: «SNB President Martin Schlegel's Salary Is Now $1.2 Million» (article, also paywalled).
finews reported the bare figures back in March: the three members of the Governing Board — Chairman Martin Schlegel, Vice Chairman Antoine Martin, and Petra Tschudin — each received an identical base salary of 986'200 francs in 2025, plus 30'500 francs in «miscellaneous» remuneration (representation allowance, General Abonnement travel card, etc.).
Well Over 1 Million per Governing Board Member
Individually varying employer contributions to the pension fund and OASI push total remuneration well above 1 million francs: for Schlegel and Tschudin, this amounts to 1'295'000 francs each, and for Martin to 1'334'500 francs.
These salaries stand out not only in the context of Swiss public administration — in 2025, a Federal Councillor earned 477'688 francs, plus an expense allowance of 30'000 francs — but also in an international peer comparison of monetarily independent central banks of major currency areas:
