France minimum wage
Salaire minimum interprofessionnel de croissance — the national gross hourly wage floor under articles L3231-1 et seq. of the Code du travail. Applies to all private-sector employees aged 18 and over, whatever the sector.
| Current value | 12.31 EUR/hour |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-06-01 |
| Official source | Arrêté du 22 mai 2026 relatif au relèvement du salaire minimum de croissance, JORF du 24 mai 2026 (Légifrance identifier JORFTEXT000054126589) |
| Last verified | 2026-07-20 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
GROSS (brut) hourly rate, before employee social contributions. Monthly equivalent for the statutory 35-hour week (151.67 hours/month) = EUR 1,867.02 gross as published in the arrêté (note the official monthly figure is a published rounding, not the naive product 12.31 × 151.67 = 1,867.06); roughly EUR 1,478 net for a standard private-sector employee — the net figure varies with the applicable contribution schedule and is NOT statutory. This is a MID-YEAR revalorisation, not the ordinary 1 January one: article L3231-5 of the Code du travail requires an automatic uplift whenever the consumer price index for the lowest-income 20% of households rises by at least 2% since the last adjustment. That threshold was met by the APRIL 2026 IPC (+2.2% y/y), published by INSEE on 13 May 2026 (energy-driven inflation), triggering a +2.41% increase from EUR 12.02 to EUR 12.31 by ministerial arrêté rather than by décret — arrêtés are the instrument used for the automatic indexation catch-up, décrets for the annual 1 January revision. TERRITORIAL MATRIX: EUR 12.31/h applies in metropolitan France, Guadeloupe, Guyane, Martinique, La Réunion, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon. Mayotte has a separate, lower statutory SMIC of EUR 9.56/h (EUR 1,449.93/month) under the same arrêté. New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Wallis-et-Futuna set their own minimum wages under their own local competence and are outside this instrument entirely. The minimum garanti (used for benefit-in-kind valuations, not a wage floor) was set to EUR 4.35 by the same arrêté. Sectoral collective agreements (conventions collectives) frequently set higher minima by grade; the SMIC is a floor, and a branch minimum below the SMIC is legally inoperative. Reduced rates apply to under-18s with under six months' seniority (80% under 17, 90% at 17) and to apprentices/contrats de professionnalisation on an age-and-year scale. ACCESS: travail-emploi.gouv.fr sits behind a Cegedim.cloud CAPTCHA wall that blocks automated fetching entirely (confirmed again on 20 July 2026); service-public.gouv.fr and Légifrance JORF permalinks fetch cleanly and are the reliable re-verification path.
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-05-01 | 11.52 | Arrêté du 26 avril 2023 relatif au relèvement du salaire min |
| 2024-01-01 | 11.65 | Décret n° 2023-1216 du 20 décembre 2023 portant relèvement d |
| 2024-11-01 | 11.88 | Décret n° 2024-951 du 23 octobre 2024 portant relèvement du |
| 2026-01-01 | 12.02 | Décret n° 2025-1228 du 17 décembre 2025 portant relèvement d |
Get it programmatically
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