In France, the median net salary of employees in the private sector is 2,012 euros before income tax according to INSEE. An online simulator now allows you to know in which segment of the population you are.
While inflation is in full swing against a background of social tensions caused in particular by the reform of the pension system, the question of wages is also coming back to the fore of the debates. In France, the median net salary of employees in the private sector is 2,012 euros before income tax according to theInsee. In other words, this means that half of French employees earn less than this sum.
“When not measured in full-time equivalent but compared to the contractual duration of the jobs, the wages received by employees for their activity decreased by 0.6% between 2019 and 2021 in constant euros”, specifies theInsee on his site. A decrease, however, offset by the allowances paid as part of the use of short-time working. Thus, INSEE indicates that the professional income of employees has increased overall in two years by 1.1%. The report notes the continuing inequalities in the amount of wages between women and men.
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A free simulator
Indeed, still according toInsee, women earn on average 14.8% less than men in full-time equivalent terms (EQTP). This gap has narrowed by 0.4 points compared to 2020, bringing its decrease since 2008 to 6.1 points, specifies the organization. In order to know where you stand in relation to the different salary brackets of the French population, there is a dedicated tool. The website Observatory of inequalities indeed offers a simulator to estimate where you place yourself on the French salary scale based on your income.
To use the tool made available free of charge, simply indicate the amount of your monthly income without taking into account the withholding tax. Once the data has been entered, the site redirects the user to a graph that displays the different income brackets of private sector employees in France. Statistics that will allow you to know your position in relation to what the rest of the French earn.
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The data of theInsee reveal that modest and average salaries are the norm for the majority of the population. Indeed, 19.5% earn less than 1,500 euros net monthly, which brings to 68% the rate of French employees earning less than 2,500 euros.At the top of the scale, less than 4 out of 100 French people have net monthly incomes of more than 6,000 euros, or 3.5% of the population.