How much may a foundation board member or an association president earn?

In Switzerland, there are currently around 12,500 foundations, 76,000 associations and 10,000 cooperatives. Non-profit work is becoming all the more important as the state withdraws from previous areas of responsibility in order to save money. A recently published study takes a comprehensive stand for the first time on the previous practice of supervisory and tax authorities: moderate compensation does not call the nonprofit system into question - on the contrary. In the future, too, there must be enough volunteers willing to take on responsibility and expose themselves to liability risk. Until now, nonprofit organizations (NPOs) have mostly been run by volunteer boards of directors and foundation boards and compensated only with reimbursement of expenses. According to estimates, volunteers in Switzerland perform work equivalent to about 80,000 full-time positions annually. Foundations alone have an estimated need of about 76,000 foundation councils.