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Highly skilled professionals with excellent education, training and practical spirit

Basel-Landschaft has a high potential of available workers who are well trained, practice-oriented and equipped with considerable work experience. They are key to any successful economic development.

Excellent staff

Basel-Landschaft businesses profit from easy access to highly skilled workers. The canton’s rural origins make for short commutes and a high quality of life. This tends to attract many sought-after workers. The canton’s geographic location close to the equally rural remainder of the region, Alsace and the German South Baden Area, also attracts commuters from those regions.

Quality education – combined with a practice-oriented attitude and work experience

Over 49% of all workers hold secondary school certificates. This is more than the Swiss average and means that Basel-Landschaft boasts numerous specialist workers with a practice-oriented higher education. Apprentices leave school having gained considerable professional experience in their training companies. These high levels of education, combined with a down-to-earth attitude and a sense of responsibility that are characteristic of rural areas, contribute to the attractiveness of Basel-Landschaft for manufacturing businesses.

Jan Pranger

COO Custom Manufacturing and Head of the Pratteln location, CABB Group

We are very well integrated into an excellent infrastructure with highly skilled professionals. The fact that the authorities work hand in hand with entrepreneurs and companies also speaks for the Basel region.

Thomas Huber

CEO, SKAN Group

We are located in the municipality of Allschwil. Its high accessibility means that we are able to attract skilled professionals from Germany, France and Switzerland.

Michael Brenner

Chief Financial Officer, Weleda AG

Since 1921, we have put down strong roots in the canton of Basel-Landschaft. It is both international and down-to-earth; workers here are well-trained and competent, and the natural surroundings are a major inspiration to us – all of which we very much appreciate.

Erich Mosset

Owner and Member of the Board, Ronda AG

In Basel-Landschaft, we are able to turn our plans for the future into reality. Combined with our production facilities in the Far East, this enables us to hold our own on the world market. Switzerland is and remains an indispensable location, especially where the production of high-end Swiss-made products by experienced workers is concerned.

Dr. Wolfgang Bäcker

Local Head Bayer Crop Science Schweiz AG

The canton of Basel-Landschaft offers a powerful infrastructure for chemical companies, as well as excellently trained specialists.

Matthias Altendorf

CEO, Endress+Hauser Group

Endress+Hauser’s home is the world. But our roots are in Basel-Landschaft. Here, people know how to work with borders and how to push boundaries – both physical and mental.

Facts and figures (2016)

Educational level of specialist workers

  • Above-average education levels in Basel-Landschaft: 49% secondary school graduates (Switzerland: 45%).
  • Some 65% of all school leavers opt for professional training (vs. 56% in Basel-City)

Highly skilled professionals with excellent education, training and practical spirit

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