Based on figures provided by INSEE and the Department of Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics (DREES) between 2013 and 2020, Capital reveals the gaps, in particular health, which separate new retirees according to their socio-professional category.
Are all workers equal when it comes to retirement? The answer is obviously no. But beyond the amount of pensions, differences in health or retirement age can be raised according to their socio-professional category, as demonstrated by Capital.
A different retirement age
Based on figures communicated by the Department of Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics (DREES) and by INSEE between 2013 and 2020, our colleagues have produced 5 graphs highlighting sometimes silly differences.
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Between 2013 and 2020, the retirement age, all socio-professional categories combined, was 61.91 years. according to Capitalfarmers, tradesmen and executives left the world of work slightly later during this period, unlike the intermediate professions, employees and workers who retired a little earlier due to the arduousness of their jobs or long careers they have had.
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Significant discrepancies in the state of health of retirees
After age 50, we see that executives spend an average of 11.16 years in employment, ie a departure after age 61, when blue-collar workers only work for 7.34 years after their fifties. The overall average is nine years according to the figures available to our colleagues.
Conversely, the average time spent without a job after age 50 reaches almost 3 years, all categories combined. It is more than 4 years for workers and could automatically be extended if Emmanuel Macron’s reform to push back the legal retirement age to 64 or 65 is adopted.
At last, Capital reveals that 8.25% of people retiring between 2013 and 2020 found themselves severely limited by serious health problems during their first year of retirement. This proportion is 3.38% among managers and 13.75% among workers. All health problems combined, this percentage is 10.25% for executives and 17.38% for manual workers, with an overall average established at 14.5%, or one person in seven.