Swiss saved much less money in second lockdown "Two waters, please": Compared with the end of the first lockdown, the Swiss will have less spare cash to spend in restaurants and cafés, for example, second time around Keystone / Urs Flueeler Swiss households saved an average of CHF880 ($950) in the second lockdown, compared with around CHF3,000 in the first lockdown in spring 2020. This content was published on March 16, 2021 - 12:15 March 16, 2021 - 12:15 Keystone-SDA/ts Monitor Switzerland, which was published on Tuesday. Normally Swiss people voluntarily put aside around 15% of their income on average, he said. “During the first lockdown it was 30% at times,” Maurer said.