page_title: Klosters
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Klosters / Economy
caption_attribution_description: Dansk: Gondolen "Prince of Wales" hos svævebanen Gotschnabahn i Klosters, Graubünden, Schweiz. 18. august 2012.English: The car "Prince of Wales" on its way down. The cableway Gotschnabahn in Klosters, Graubünden, Switzerland. August 18, 2012.
context_page_description: Klosters is a Swiss village in the Prättigau, politically part of the municipality of Klosters-Serneus, which belongs to the political district Prättigau/Davos in the canton of Graubünden. Klosters itself consists of the two main parts Klosters Dorf and Kloster Platz, and the settlements Selfranga, Äuja, Monbiel. Together with neighbouring Serneus, the two villages form the former municipality of Klosters-Serneus. On 1 January 2016, the former municipality of Saas im Prättigau merged into Klosters-Serneus.
  The village's ski resort lies 150 km from Zurich, the nearest international airport. Klosters is 10 km north from Davos and part of its extended ski area.
context_section_description: Klosters-Serneus is classed as a tourist community. In 2015 local hotels had a total of 128,053 overnight stays, of which 54.4% were international visitors.
  As of  2014, there were a total of 2,190 people employed in the municipality. Of these, a total of 144 people worked in 62 businesses in the primary economic sector. The secondary sector employed 554 workers in 83 separate businesses. There were 10 small businesses with a total of 219 employees and one mid sized business with a total of 97 employees. Finally, the tertiary sector provided 1,492 jobs in 313 businesses. There were 25 small businesses with a total of 645 employees. In 2015 a total of 10.2% of the population received social assistance.
  In 2011 the unemployment rate in the municipality was 1.2%.
  In 2015 the average cantonal, municipal and church tax rate in the municipality for a couple with two children making CHF 80,000 was 3.5% while the rate for a single person making CHF 150,000 was 15%, both of which are close to the average for the canton and nationally. In 2013 the average income in the municipality per tax payer was CHF 70,989 and the per person average was CHF 40,079, which is greater than the cantonal averages of CHF 69,964 and CHF 33,075 respectively  In contrast, the national tax payer average is CHF 82,682, while the national per person average is CHF 35,825.
caption: Cable car from Klosters Platz to the Gotschna summit, which is part of one of Davos' ski arena
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