The news the Director General of the Geneva University Hospital has been given an 18% pay rise is still causing waves within the government and social media.
The board has given the green light to lifting Bertrand Levrat’s pay to CHF 450,000 a year.
The hospital points out the pay is not excessive within the sector. The head of the Inselspital in Bern gets CHF 676,000 and the average pay for hospital heads is CHF 550,000 throughout the country.
Even so, many say there are other health workers who are not getting a pay rise. One doctor, who is also a deputy on the Geneva Grand Council, Bertrand Buchs, says he’s shocked the director is the only one who’s getting a pay rise – he’s not the one who saved people, he told the Tribune de Genève.
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