page_title: Palézieux
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Palézieux / Economy
caption_attribution_description: English: Cattle and fields outside Palézieux-Gare village in Palézieux, Vaud, Switzerland
context_page_description: Palézieux is a village and former municipality in the district of Lavaux-Oron in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. Since 2012 it forms part of the municipality of Oron.
context_section_description: As of  2010, Palézieux had an unemployment rate of 5.7%.  As of 2008, there were 32 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 13 businesses involved in this sector.  289 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were 14 businesses in this sector.  203 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 35 businesses in this sector.  There were 542 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 43.4% of the workforce.
  In 2008 the total number of full-time equivalent jobs was 462.  The number of jobs in the primary sector was 23, all of which were in agriculture.  The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 277 of which 252 or (91.0%) were in manufacturing and 26 (9.4%) were in construction.  The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 162.  In the tertiary sector; 69 or 42.6% were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 12 or 7.4% were in the movement and storage of goods, 14 or 8.6% were in a hotel or restaurant, 17 or 10.5% were the insurance or financial industry, 6 or 3.7% were technical professionals or scientists, 5 or 3.1% were in education and 33 or 20.4% were in health care.
  In 2000, there were 238 workers who commuted into the municipality and 397 workers who commuted away.  The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 1.7 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.  Of the working population, 22.1% used public transportation to get to work, and 57.7% used a private car.
caption: Cattle and fields outside Palézieux-Gare
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