French overtime pay in 2026: 25% and 50% premiums, contribution relief, tax-free ceiling
Estimates only, not financial advice. What you type stays on your device. Checked against sources on 17 Oct 2026.In France each hour beyond 35 a week is paid 25% more for the 36th to 43rd hour and 50% more from the 44th, unless an agreement sets another rate of at least 10%. The hourly rate is the monthly salary divided by 151.67. At 2,000 euros and 39 hours, overtime adds 285.78 euros gross a month.
2026 · Rates and rules read from the sources listed on this page (the earliest on 17 Oct 2026); they may have changed since.
Type your gross monthly salary for 35 hours a week.
Enter the hours you work in a week, from 35 to 48.
Keep the legal 25% and 50% premiums, or enter your agreement’s rate.
Read the overtime pay a week, a month and a year, and what reaches you net.
This calculator works out the pay for heures supplémentaires of a full-time private-sector employee in France, from Service Public and Urssaf.
The premiums. Without a collective agreement, the first 8 overtime hours of a week (36th to 43rd hour) are paid 25% more and every hour from the 44th 50% more. An agreement can set other rates, but never below 10%. Overtime is counted per calendar week.
The hourly rate. A full-time month is 151.67 hours, so the hourly rate is the monthly gross salary divided by 151.67. Urssaf's own example: 12.50 euros an hour, 10 overtime hours at 125%, 156.25 euros.
What reaches you. The employee pension contributions on overtime pay are cancelled by a relief of up to 11.31% (7.30% + 3.15% + 0.86%). The CSG and CRDS, 9.7% on 98.25% of the pay, are still taken.
Income tax. Overtime pay is free of income tax up to 7,500 euros of net taxable pay a year, for 2025 and for 2026 income. Above that, the extra is taxed with your salary.
A worked example. 2,000 euros a month and 39 hours a week: 13.19 euros an hour, 4 hours at 25% = 65.95 euros a week, 285.78 euros gross a month, 258.54 euros after CSG and CRDS.
The contingent. Without an agreement, an employee works at most 220 overtime hours a year; beyond it, a rest compensation is owed.
Not included. Salaries above 4,005 euros, part-time hours, forfait jours, rest compensation and public holidays. For the whole payslip, see the France Gross to Net Salary Calculator.
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Without a collective agreement, each hour beyond 35 in a calendar week is paid 25% more for the 36th to 43rd hour and 50% more from the 44th hour. An agreement may set different rates, at least 10%. At 13.19 euros an hour, a 39-hour week adds 65.95 euros of overtime pay.
Divide the gross monthly salary by 151.67, the hours in a full-time month of 35 hours a week. A salary of 2,000 euros gives 13.19 euros an hour, and Urssaf's example uses 12.50 euros an hour for a salary of 1,895.88 euros.
Overtime pay is free of income tax up to 7,500 euros of net taxable pay a year, for 2025 and 2026 income, and the exempt amount is pre-filled on the tax return. The part above 7,500 euros is taxed like the rest of the salary. Unused RTT days sold back to the employer count towards the same ceiling.
Employee pension contributions on overtime are cancelled by a relief of up to 11.31%, made of 7.30% basic pension, 3.15% Agirc-Arrco and 0.86% CEG. The CSG and CRDS of 9.7% on 98.25% of the pay remain, so about 90% of the overtime pay reaches the employee.
Without an agreement setting another figure, the annual contingent is 220 overtime hours per employee. Hours beyond the contingent remain possible but give a compulsory rest compensation: 50% of those hours in a company of 20 employees or fewer, 100% above. Four overtime hours every week of the year come to 208 hours.
The pay for overtime can be replaced in whole or in part by equivalent rest. The rest then matches the premium: an hour paid at 50% more gives an hour and a half off. Replacing all overtime pay with rest removes the contribution relief, which applies only to hours that are paid.
Rates and rules change; check the source before you rely on a figure.
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