78 Jobs in Mendrisio

How we collect listings and what this page guarantees

Listings on this page come from a proprietary crawler that polls the main Swiss ATS (Smartrecruiters, Workday, proprietary trackers like Talentry and ServiceNow) every 6 hours, plus the cantonal Ticino Job Center, JobUp, JobScout24 and the career pages of long-standing Ticino employers. Every listing passes a deduplication check on normalised title + company + municipality before publication, so the same role does not appear twice even when the employer posts it on three portals. The displayed date is the original publication date — not the crawl timestamp — so you can judge the freshness. We keep listings online for 30 days or until the employer removes them from its ATS (we verify HTTP 404 and "position closed" redirects every 12 hours).

Living in Italy and working in Ticino: the cross-border geography

Mendrisio is 14 km from Como and 22 km from Varese, with off-peak driving time around 15 minutes (peaks 06:30-07:30 and 16:30-19:00) and 18 minutes by TILO regional train (Como-Chiasso-Mendrisio line). The fastest crossings for Mendrisio-bound commuters are Chiasso-Brogeda, Stabio, Gaggiolo: peak-time queues can exceed 25 minutes at Brogeda, while Stabio flows more smoothly after 07:15. The local economy is anchored in orologeria di lusso, meccanica di precisione, logistica e retail: workers in these sectors find a deep market with frequent role rotation and well-structured collective agreements. These listings concern Ticino. A G permit covers work in Switzerland while keeping a main residence abroad and returning at least weekly. The 20 km border zone is a treaty tax condition, not a general EU/EFTA G-permit requirement. In Ticino, issuance and renewal for adult EU/EFTA nationals cost CHF 75; other categories and procedures have different fees. Apply before starting work and check the expiry shown on the permit. Source for Ticino: SPOP Ticino.

CHF gross salary: how to land at real take-home

When a listing states pay, check the gross amount, pay period, workload and number of salary payments. Take-home pay depends on cantonal rates, pension contributions and personal circumstances. For new cross-border workers meeting the Italy–Switzerland agreement conditions, Switzerland applies 80% of ordinary withholding tax; this percentage is not a cap on the Italian tax credit. The hiring date alone does not determine the regime: residence, workplace and daily return in principle also matter. The transitional regime requires checking qualifying frontier work between 31 December 2018 and 17 July 2023. Outside the agreement conditions, the applicable treatment must be checked separately. Enter the offer details in the calculator for an estimate and assess actual commuting costs separately. Official source: ESTV / AFC

Example: a manager with a CHF 6'385 gross monthly offer in Mendrisio (CHF 83,000 gross/year over 13 months). Source tax ~13 % (~CHF 830), AVS-AI-IPG 5.3 % (~CHF 338), LPP ~7 % (~CHF 447). Swiss net ~CHF 4'770/month. EUR rate at 0.97 → ~EUR 4'627. The fiscal compensation between states is not a worker refund; any Italian tax depends on the applicable regime. The Frontaliere Ticino calculator handles both regimes (old + new agreement) and shows the effective net.

Frequent questions from cross-border readers

Related tools for cross-border workers

Three free tools to close the loop before applying: cross-border net salary calculator with both tax regimes (old + 2024 new agreement); CHF/EUR exchange comparator with rates from Italian banks, Swiss bureaus de change and Wise/Revolut; LAMal health-insurance comparator to pick the cheapest premium in your Ticino work municipality.