Public service residence allowance

Verified 01 January 2024 - Legal and Administrative Information Directorate (Prime Minister)

If you are a public official, your remuneration includes a residency allowance. The amount varies according to your local authority. We present you with the information you need to know.

The residence allowance was introduced in the public service to take into account variations in the cost of living according to geographical areas.

The residence allowance is equal to a percentage of your index treatment raw. The communes of France are classified as 3 areas. For each zone there is a percentage of the gross index treatment:

  • Area 1: 3%
  • Area 2: 1%
  • Area 3: 0%

The residence allowance is obligatory paid to any public official, official or contractor, posted in a municipality giving entitlement to a residence allowance equal to 1% or 3% of its gross index treatment.

Please note

In a couple of public officials, the two members of the couple receive the residence allowance.

The residence allowance shall be equal to 1% or 3% of your raw index treatment.

The percentage depends on the municipality in which you are in fact carrying out your duties. You are not employed by the municipality of the administrative office.

If you get a new index enhancement (NBI), the NBI is in addition to the index salary for the calculation of your residence allowance.

For example, if you are remunerated on the basis of the index plus 387 and receive an NBI of 10 points, your residence allowance is calculated on the basis of the index salary corresponding to the index plus 397.

The amount of the residence allowance may not be less than the amount of the residence allowance corresponding to the index plus 366, namely:

  • €54.05 in zone 1
  • €18.01 in zone 2

Reminder

The amount of the monthly salary and the residence allowance is determined by ignoring the thousandths of euro.

If you are posted to a municipality within a multi-communal urban agglomeration, you will benefit from the highest percentage applicable within the agglomeration.

If you work within the boundaries of a new agglomeration, you will receive the highest percentage applicable within the agglomeration.

The residence allowance is paid to you every month as your index salary.

It evolves in the same proportions as your index treatment.

Thus, in case of part-time, it is reduced in the same proportions as your index treatment.

On the other hand, the residence allowance is paid in full when you are on sick leave (regular, long-term or long-term) at half-salary.