 28.8% of the working population were employed full-time, and 71.3% were employed part-time.In 2014, Fischenthal made regional news because it was forced to spend 87% of its fiscal budget on social support, mostly due to a single family which had recently moved to the village and which consumed a quarter of the municipality's budget or half a million francs in support and special education programs.The historical population is given in the following table