page_title: Steffisburg
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Steffisburg / Economy
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Saagi in Steffisburg
context_page_description: Steffisburg is a municipality in the administrative district of Thun in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. On 1 January 2020 the former municipality of Schwendibach merged into the municipality of Steffisburg.
context_section_description: As of  2011, Steffisburg had an unemployment rate of 1.98%.  As of 2011, there were a total of 5,673 people employed in the municipality.  Of these, there were 164 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 54 businesses involved in this sector.  The secondary sector employs 1,834 people and there were 142 businesses in this sector.  The tertiary sector employs 3,675 people, with 631 businesses in this sector.  There were 7,364 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 44.7% of the workforce.
  In 2008 there were a total of 4,000 full-time equivalent jobs.  The number of jobs in the primary sector was 98, of which 95 were in agriculture and 3 were in forestry or lumber production.  The number of jobs in the secondary sector was 1,821 of which 1,380 or (75.8%) were in manufacturing and 372 (20.4%) were in construction.  The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 2,081.  In the tertiary sector; 666 or 32.0% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 35 or 1.7% were in the movement and storage of goods, 151 or 7.3% were in a hotel or restaurant, 32 or 1.5% were in the information industry, 59 or 2.8% were the insurance or financial industry, 133 or 6.4% were technical professionals or scientists, 169 or 8.1% were in education and 525 or 25.2% were in health care.
  In 2000, there were 2,710 workers who commuted into the municipality and 5,328 workers who commuted away.  The municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.0 workers leaving the municipality for every one entering.  A total of 2,034 workers (42.9% of the 4,744 total workers in the municipality) both lived and worked in Steffisburg.  Of the working population, 19.6% used public transportation to get to work, and 47.1% used a private car.
  The local and cantonal tax rate in Steffisburg is one of the lowest in the canton.  In 2012 the average local and cantonal tax rate on a married resident, with two children, of Steffisburg making 150,000 CHF was 12%, while an unmarried resident's rate was 17.9%.  For comparison, the average rate for the entire canton in 2011, was 14.2% and 22.0%, while the nationwide average was 12.3% and 21.1% respectively.
  In 2010 there were a total of 7,299 tax payers in the municipality.  Of that total, 2,371 made over 75,000 CHF per year.  There were 50 people who made between 15,000 and 20,000 per year.  The average income of the over 75,000 CHF group in Steffisburg was 115,452 CHF, while the average across all of Switzerland was 131,244 CHF.
  In 2011 a total of 2.2% of the population received direct financial assistance from the government.
caption: Historic sawmill in Steffisburg.  The Zulg river provided power to many industries in the municipality
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