Index-based treatment in the public service
Verified 01 July 2023 - Legal and Administrative Information Directorate (Prime Minister)
If you are a public official, your remuneration includes an index salary (also called basic salary) calculated on the basis of an increased index.
We present the regulations whether you are a public servant or a contract worker.
Official
Your remuneration consists in particular of an index treatment (also called basic salary).
Your index treatment depends on your grade and step that you hold in that rank.
Each grade comprises a number of steps fixed by decree.
Each step corresponds to a gross index (IB).
Each gross index corresponds to an index increased (IM) according to a scale defined by decree.
Gross indices range from 100 to 1,027. The increased indices range from 203 to 830.
It is the index plus (MI) that is used to calculate your index salary.
Your index treatment is increased by 25% if you are a government or hospital official working in one of the following overseas territories:
- Guadeloupe
- Guiana
- Martinique
- Reunion
- Saint Barthelemy
- Saint Martin's Day
- St. Pierre and Miquelon.
Your index treatment is increased by 40% if you are a State or hospital official working in Mayotte.
FYI
Certain senior management grades (so-called A+) comprise steps whose index treatment is higher than that of the increased index 830. Each of these steps corresponds to a group and possibly a chevron. For each chevron in each group there is a prescribed annual gross salary amount. These treatments are called off-scale.
Gross index treatment is calculated based on the value of the annual gross index salary corresponding to the index plus 100.
This value is fixed by decree.
From 1er in july 2023, the value of the annual gross index treatment of the index plus 100 is set at €5,907.34.
Your raw index treatment annual shall be calculated as follows:
Your index plus x Annual value of gross index treatment corresponding to the MI 100 / 100.
Your raw index treatment monthly equals:
Your index plus x Annual value of gross index treatment corresponding to the MI 100 / 1 200.
The amount of the annual salary shall be rounded to the nearest euro cent.
The amount of the monthly salary is determined by ignoring the thousandths of euro.
Example :
Treatment annual gross corresponding to the index plus 467 is equal to 467× €5,907.34 / 100 = €27,587.28.
Treatment monthly crude is equal to 467 x €5,907.34 / 1200 = €2,298.93.
If you are employed full-time, your gross index salary may not be less than the gross index salary corresponding to the index plus 361, either €21,325.50 per year, 1,777.12 per month.
If you are employed on a non-full-time or incomplete job, the minimum wage is reduced in proportion to your working hours.
Example :
If you are working for a job with a fixed working time of 70% of the legal working time (i.e. 24 hours 30 instead of 35 hours), your index treatment may not be less than 70% the amount of index salary plus index 361, or €14,927.85 per year, €1,243.98 per month.
In addition, if you are employed on a full-time basis, your gross index salary cannot be less than the amount of Smic: titleContent crude, or €1,747.20.
If this is the case, you will receive a differential allowance to ensure a monthly gross base salary at least equal to the gross minimum wage.
The gross remuneration taken into account, which must be at least equal to the minimum wage, consists of your gross index salary and, if you receive it, your benefits in kind.
If you are employed on a non-full-time or incomplete job, the differential is reduced in proportion to your working hours.
If you work part-time, the differential allowance is reduced in the same proportion as your index salary.
The differential allowance shall also be reduced in the same proportion as the index salary during periods of absence during which the index salary is reduced (in the case of sick leave paid on half-salary, for example).
Differential allowance is not subject to pension contributions, unlike index salary.
Please note
If you get a new index enhancement (NBI), the index points you receive are not added to your increased index to determine whether or not you are entitled to the minimum salary corresponding to the increased index 361.
The index salary top-up is a compensation top-up that was introduced in September 2020.
The additional salary is paid to State officials, territorial and hospitals working in the health, social, medico-social or socio-educational sector.
The monthly amount of the index salary supplement is fixed at 49 index points plus, i.e. €241.22 raw.
Additional index therapy is paid monthly.
It is reduced to the same extent as index treatment (in case of part-time or absence leading to a reduction of index treatment, for example in case of sick leave with half treatment).
The additional index salary is not taken into account for the calculation of the residence allowance and the family salary supplement.
If you work in more than one establishment, the additional index treatment is calculated by each establishment in proportion to your working time in the establishment concerned.
The gross amount of the additional index treatment is revalued under the same conditions as the index treatment according to the value of the index point.
Additional index treatment is subject to the same contributions than index treatment.
The additional index salary is eligible for a pension supplement.
This pension supplement is granted to retirement pensions paid since 1er September 2020.
To benefit from it, you must have received the additional index treatment at least 1 time in the last 6 months before your retirement.
The index supplement taken into account for the calculation of the pension supplement is the amount corresponding to the highest number of index points plus that you have received at least once in the last 6 months before retirement (24 or 49 points).
This pension supplement is calculated in the same way as retirement:
Index treatment supplement x 75% x (number of quarters and windable rebates / number of quarters required to have a full rate pension)
The pension supplement shall be increased under the same conditions as the retirement pension.
Contractual
Your remuneration consists in particular of an index treatment (also called basic salary).
Your index salary is determined by your employer administration.
In determining your index salary, your administration takes into account your duties, the qualification required to perform them, your qualification and his experience.
Index treatment is calculated based on an increased index determined by your administration. The increased indices range from 203 to 830.
Gross index treatment is calculated based on the value of the annual gross index salary corresponding to the index plus 100.
This value is fixed by decree.
From 1er in july 2023, the value of the annual gross index treatment of the index plus 100 is set at €5,907.34.
Your raw index treatment annual shall be calculated as follows:
Your index plus x Annual value of gross index treatment corresponding to the MI 100 / 100.
Your raw index treatment monthly equals:
Your index plus x Annual value of gross index treatment corresponding to the MI 100 / 1 200.
The amount of the annual salary shall be rounded to the nearest euro cent.
The amount of the monthly salary is determined by ignoring the thousandths of euro.
Example :
Treatment annual gross corresponding to the index plus 467 is equal to 467× €5,907.34 / 100 = €27,587.28.
Treatment monthly crude is equal to 467 x €5,907.34 / 1200 = €2,298.93.
If you are employed full-time, your gross index salary may not be less than the gross index salary corresponding to the index plus 361, either €21,325.50 per year, 1,777.12 per month.
If you are employed on a non-full-time or incomplete job, the minimum wage is reduced in proportion to your working hours.
Example :
If you are working for a job with a fixed working time of 70% of the legal working time (i.e. 24 hours 30 instead of 35 hours), your index treatment may not be less than 70% the amount of index salary plus index 361, or €14,927.85 per year, €1,243.98 per month.
In addition, if you are employed on a full-time basis, your gross index salary cannot be less than the amount of Smic: titleContent crude, or €1,747.20.
If this is the case, you will receive a differential allowance to ensure a monthly gross base salary at least equal to the gross minimum wage.
The gross remuneration taken into account, which must be at least equal to the minimum wage, consists of your gross index salary and, if you receive it, your benefits in kind.
If you are employed on a non-full-time or incomplete job, the differential is reduced in proportion to your working hours.
If you work part-time, the differential allowance is reduced in the same proportion as your index salary.
The differential allowance shall also be reduced in the same proportion as the index salary during periods of absence during which the index salary is reduced (in the case of sick leave paid on half-salary, for example).
Differential allowance is not subject to pension contributions, unlike index salary.
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State Civil Service (EPF)
If you are employed in DTA: titleContent, your remuneration is reassessed at least every 3 years.
If you are employed in CSD: titleContent on an ongoing basis with the same administration, your remuneration is also reassessed at least every 3 years if you have been recruited for one of the following reasons
- Absence of staff capable of performing the functions performed
- Recruitment justified by the nature of the duties or the needs of the service
- Your job does not require statutory training leading to tenure in a civil service corps
- Incomplete employment with a maximum working time of 24 hours 30.
The reassessment takes into account the results of your annual professional interviews or the evolution of your duties.
Territorial (FPT)
If you are employed in DTA: titleContent, your remuneration is reassessed at least every 3 years.
If you are employed in CSD: titleContent on an ongoing basis with the same administration, your remuneration is also reassessed at least every 3 years if you have been recruited for one of the following reasons
- Lack of a cadre of civil servants capable of performing the functions for which you were recruited
- Recruitment justified by the needs of the services or the nature of the duties and by the impossibility of recruiting an official
- Work in a municipality with less than 1 000 inhabitants or in a group of municipalities with less than 15 000 inhabitants
- To work in a new municipality resulting from the merger of municipalities with less than 1 000 inhabitants for a period of 3 years following the creation of the new municipality, possibly extended to 1er renewal of municipal council
- Work in a non-full-time job with a working time of less than one half-time
- To hold a job in a municipality with less than 2 000 inhabitants or a group of municipalities with less than 10 000 inhabitants, the creation or removal of which depends on the decision of an authority which is binding on the territorial authority (for example, the employment of a specialized territorial agent of nursery schools - Atsem - the creation or removal of which depends on the decisions of the National Education to open or close classes)
The reassessment takes into account the results of your annual professional interviews or the evolution of your duties.
Hospital (FPH)
If you are employed in DTA: titleContent, your remuneration is reassessed at least every 3 years.
If you are employed in CSD: titleContent on an ongoing basis with the same administration, your remuneration is also reassessed at least every 3 years if you have been recruited for one of the following reasons
- Recruitment based on the nature of the functions or the needs of the service (in particular, the absence of staff capable of performing the functions occupied or because they are functions newly taken over by the administration or requiring highly specialized technical knowledge)
- Work less than half-time non-full-time jobs
- Temporary replacement of an official or a member of the contract staff on part-time, annual leave, sick leave, maternity or adoption leave, parental leave, parental leave, family solidarity or reserve leave.
The reassessment takes into account the results of your annual professional interviews or the evolution of your duties.
The index salary top-up is a compensation top-up that was introduced in September 2020.
The additional index treatment is paid to staff working in the health, social, medico-social or socio-educational sector.
The monthly amount of the index salary supplement is fixed at 49 index points plus, i.e. €241.22 raw.
Additional index therapy is paid monthly.
It is reduced to the same extent as index treatment (in case of part-time or absence leading to a reduction of index treatment, for example in case of sick leave with half treatment).
The additional index salary is not taken into account for the calculation of the residence allowance and the family salary supplement.
If you work in more than one establishment, the additional index treatment is calculated by each establishment in proportion to your working time in the establishment concerned.
The gross amount of the additional index treatment is revalued under the same conditions as the index treatment according to the value of the index point.
Additional index treatment is subject to the same contributions than index treatment.
- Civil Service Code: Articles L712-1 to L712-2
- Civil Service Code: Articles L712-3 to L712-6
- Civil Service Code: Articles L713-1 to L713-2
- Civil Service Code: Article L715-1
- Civil Service Code: Article L741-1
- Law n°2020-1576 of 14 December 2020 on financing social security for 2021: article 48
- Decree No. 82-1105 of 23 December 1982 on public service indices
- Decree No. 85-1148 of 24 October 1985 on the remuneration of staff of the three public services
- Decree No. 86-83 of 17 January 1986 on contract agents of the EPFArticle 1-3
- Decree No. 88-145 of February 15, 1988, on non-incumbent FPT agentsArticle 1-2
- Decree No. 91-155 of 6 February 1991 on contract agents of the FPHArticle 1-2
- Decree No. 91-769 of 2 August 1991 establishing a differential allowance for State, local and regional authorities and public hospitals
- Decree No. 2013-964 of 28 October 2013 on the salary increase granted to State and hospital officials assigned to Mayotte
- Decree No. 2020-1152 of 19 September 2020 on the payment of additional salary to certain public officials
- Employee’s contributionsService-Public.fr
- Salary contributions of a member of the public service contract staffService-Public.fr
- Development of index 100 since 1995 (annualized amounts)Ministry of Public Service
- Correspondence between gross and gross indicesLegifrance
- Beneficiaries of the additional index treatment in the territorial civil serviceMinistry responsible for local government