About LivingEase
Swiss paperwork is written for people who already understand Swiss paperwork. LivingEase exists to close that gap — and this page explains who is behind it, how the guides are researched, and how to tell us when something is wrong.
Who runs this site
LivingEase is built and maintained by Luka Ardeleanu, its founder. It is a small, independent project rather than a content agency or a media group, and there is no anonymous editorial team behind the byline: the guides on this site are published under a real name because you should know who is responsible for advice you are about to act on.
The site runs three tools — a Swiss CV optimizer, a lease analyzer that translates and flags risk in a Mietvertrag, and a free salary calculator covering Swiss roles by canton. The written guides exist because using those tools well usually requires understanding the system behind them.
How these guides are researched
Swiss administrative rules are unusually well documented in public, official sources — and unusually badly summarised everywhere else. The editorial rule here is simple: where a fact is set by law or published by a federal office, it is taken from that source and not from a secondary write-up.
In practice that means:
- Legal rules come from Fedlex — the federal law portal. Tenancy articles are cited by their number in the Code of Obligations (OR) so you can check them yourself.
- Wage and cost figures come from the Federal Statistical Office (BFS), primarily the Lohnstrukturerhebung, with the survey year stated so you can tell how current a number is.
- Health insurance figures come from the Federal Office of Public Health (BAG) and priminfo.ch.
- Procedural detail — registration, permits, deadlines — comes from ch.ch and the relevant cantonal or federal office.
Key articles carry a sources block listing the official pages they draw on, and a last-updated date. Where a number is an estimate rather than an official statistic — asking rents, for instance, which no federal office publishes in real time — the guides say so rather than dressing an estimate up as a statistic.
What this site is not
These guides are general information, not legal, tax, or financial advice. Swiss rules vary by canton and often by municipality, and an individual situation can turn on facts a general guide cannot know. For a dispute that matters — a contested termination, a deposit the landlord will not release, a tax assessment you believe is wrong — speak to the cantonal conciliation authority (Schlichtungsbehörde), a tenancy association such as the Mieterverband, or a qualified professional.
Corrections
Swiss figures change every year, and some of them change mid-year. If you find something on this site that is out of date, imprecise, or simply wrong, please say so — corrections are made directly to the affected article and the last-updated date is changed with them.
Write to contact@livingease.ch with the page and what you believe is incorrect. Reports that identify a specific figure or rule are the most useful, and they are acted on.
Contact
General enquiries: contact@livingease.ch
Help with a tool or an order: support@livingease.ch
You can also read the full guide library, the FAQ, or the privacy policy.