Policy analyst
| Highest | $6,400 / mo · Switzerland |
|---|---|
| Experience | 2–4 yrs |
| Degree | Required |
| First paycheck | 2 years of master's + 1-3 months to a post |
Pay in the destination countries
Monthly, in US dollars. Each country is an Imora admission package — open one for that route's fees, language requirement and deadline.
| Country | Monthly |
|---|---|
| SwitzerlandIELTS 6.5 · CHF 0.9–8k | $6,400max |
| United StatesTOEFL 80–100 · $10–70k | $5,800 |
| NorwayIELTS 6.0–6.5 · NOK 130–260k | $5,550 |
| Hong KongIELTS 6.0–6.5 · HK–200k | $5,100 |
| SingaporeIELTS 6.5 · SGD 18–35k | $5,100 |
| United KingdomIELTS 6.0–7.0 · £11–38k | $5,100 |
What does the day look like?
You start at a desk with Bloomberg Terminal, Factiva, LexisNexis, EU Monitor, GovTrack and the UN Digital Library open. You read 100-300-page treaties, laws and trade tables, sort them in R, Stata, Python (pandas), Excel (pivots, regression), Qualtrics and NVivo, then write 2-page briefs and risk notes in Overleaf and Word (track-changes) on a 4-6-hour deadline in SharePoint and Asana. During the day you sit in hearings and working groups taking notes, interview experts and trade attaches, and check polls and sanction lists.
Hours are usually 09:00 to 18:00, 40-50 hours per week. In a crisis, around G7, G20, COP or NATO summits or parliament votes it rises to 60-70 hours, with night work and weekend on-call. The glamorous part is only 15%: 50% is reading and coding, 25% is rewriting, 10% is grant reports and admin.
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