{
  "table": "hourly-wage-calculator-rules",
  "schema": 1,
  "version": "2026-11-11.2",
  "title": "Hourly pay conversions and minimum hourly pay: France (SMIC from 1 June 2026, mensualisation, legal working week and overtime premiums) and the United Kingdom (National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage from 1 April 2026, weekly multiplier and working-time limits)",
  "doc": "Rule table read by the hourly-wage-calculator handler (ctx.data['hourly-wage-calculator-rules']). Hours are hours a week unless a key says otherwise; premiums, reductions and rates are percentage points (25 means 25 %); amounts are gross hourly pay in the country's currency, in major units (EUR for FR, GBP for GB). France: monthly pay is the hourly pay × 52/12 of the weekly hours (Code du travail, art. L3242-1); hours beyond the legal 35 hours a week are overtime, paid 25 % more for the first 8 and 50 % more after that unless a collective agreement sets other rates, each at least 10 %; the SMIC is the gross hourly minimum, with a reduction for employees under 18 who have less than six months' experience in their sector (art. D3231-3); Mayotte has its own SMIC. United Kingdom: no statute converts a week into a month or a year; GOV.UK's minimum wage guidance names 52, 52.14 or 52.18 as weekly multipliers an employer may use, and this table uses 52 with 12 months; the minimum hourly rates depend on age and on being an apprentice and apply in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland alike; employers do not have to pay a premium for overtime. Table-level valid_from/valid_until bound the period this version may be relied on: the SMIC is reviewed every 1 January and rises during the year when prices have risen by at least 2 %, so the table must be checked again by 31 December 2026 at the latest. Block-level valid_from is the date the values took effect, valid_until the last day they apply (null: until changed). source_url is the primary official source, source_date that source's own date (or the date it was read when it shows none), retrieved the date the value was read there.",
  "reviewed_on": "2026-11-11",
  "reviewed_by": "apps agent (hourly-wage-calculator): every value read at its official source on 2026-11-11; owner review pending",
  "valid_from": "2026-11-11",
  "valid_until": "2026-12-31",
  "locale_country": {
    "fr-FR": "FR",
    "en-GB": "GB"
  },
  "countries": {
    "FR": {
      "currency": "EUR",
      "calendar": {
        "weeks_per_year": 52,
        "months_per_year": 12,
        "rule": "Mensualisation: for a working week at the legal duration, monthly pay is the hourly pay multiplied by 52/12 of the weekly hours; the same 52/12 converts any weekly schedule. 35 h × 52 / 12 = 151.67 h a month (rounded for display; the calculation keeps the exact fraction).",
        "legal_basis": "Code du travail, art. L3242-1",
        "valid_from": "2008-05-01",
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000006902858",
        "source_label": "Légifrance: code du travail, article L3242-1 (mensualisation, « 52/12 de la durée légale hebdomadaire »)",
        "source_date": "2008-05-01",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
      },
      "legal_week": {
        "hours": 35,
        "rule": "The legal working week of a full-time employee is 35 hours; every hour beyond it is an overtime hour.",
        "legal_basis": "Code du travail, art. L3121-27 and L3121-28",
        "valid_from": "2016-08-10",
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F1911",
        "source_label": "Service-Public.gouv.fr: Durée du travail d’un salarié du secteur privé à temps plein (vérifié le 25 septembre 2025)",
        "source_date": "2025-09-25",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
      },
      "overtime": {
        "bands": [
          { "from": 35, "to": 43, "premium": 25 },
          { "from": 43, "to": null, "premium": 50 }
        ],
        "agreement_floor": 10,
        "rule": "Without an agreement: 25 % more for each of the first 8 overtime hours of a calendar week (36th to 43rd hour), 50 % more from the 44th hour. A company or extended branch agreement may set other rates, each at least 10 %. Overtime premiums do not count when pay is checked against the SMIC (Service-Public.gouv.fr, Smic, F2300: « Majorations pour heures supplémentaires » among the elements left out), so the minimum for hours beyond 35 is the SMIC × the paid hours, premiums included.",
        "legal_basis": "Code du travail, art. L3121-33 and L3121-36",
        "valid_from": "2016-08-10",
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2391",
        "source_label": "Service-Public.gouv.fr: Heures supplémentaires d’un salarié du secteur privé (vérifié le 8 juin 2026)",
        "source_date": "2026-06-08",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
      },
      "limits": {
        "week_max": 48,
        "week_average_max": 44,
        "average_weeks": 12,
        "week_max_exceptional": 60,
        "week_average_max_by_agreement": 46,
        "day_max": 10,
        "day_max_by_agreement": 12,
        "rule": "At most 48 hours in any one week (up to 60 hours in exceptional circumstances, with the labour inspectorate's authorisation) and 44 hours a week on average over 12 consecutive weeks (up to 46 hours where a branch or company agreement provides for it or the labour inspectorate authorises it); at most 10 hours of work a day, up to 12 hours where an agreement allows it.",
        "legal_basis": "Code du travail, art. L3121-18 to L3121-24",
        "valid_from": "2016-08-10",
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F1911",
        "source_label": "Service-Public.gouv.fr: Durée du travail d’un salarié du secteur privé à temps plein (vérifié le 25 septembre 2025)",
        "source_date": "2025-09-25",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
      },
      "minimum_wage": {
        "territories": [
          {
            "id": "national",
            "hourly": 12.31,
            "name": { "fr-FR": "SMIC", "en-GB": "SMIC" },
            "applies_in": "Mainland France, Guadeloupe, Guyane, Martinique, La Réunion, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon",
            "monthly_at_35h": 1867.02,
            "annual_at_35h": 22404.2,
            "legal_basis": "Arrêté du 22 mai 2026 relatif au relèvement du salaire minimum de croissance, art. 1, 1°",
            "valid_from": "2026-06-01",
            "valid_until": null,
            "source_url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000054126589",
            "source_label": "Légifrance: arrêté du 22 mai 2026 relatif au relèvement du salaire minimum de croissance (JORF n° 0121 du 24 mai 2026)",
            "source_date": "2026-05-24",
            "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
          },
          {
            "id": "mayotte",
            "hourly": 9.56,
            "name": { "fr-FR": "SMIC de Mayotte", "en-GB": "Mayotte SMIC" },
            "applies_in": "Mayotte",
            "monthly_at_35h": 1449.93,
            "annual_at_35h": 17399.2,
            "legal_basis": "Arrêté du 22 mai 2026 relatif au relèvement du salaire minimum de croissance, art. 1, 2°",
            "valid_from": "2026-06-01",
            "valid_until": null,
            "source_url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000054126589",
            "source_label": "Légifrance: arrêté du 22 mai 2026 relatif au relèvement du salaire minimum de croissance (JORF n° 0121 du 24 mai 2026)",
            "source_date": "2026-05-24",
            "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
          }
        ],
        "bands": [
          {
            "id": "fr-adult",
            "reduction": 0,
            "suffix": null,
            "rule": "18 and over, or under 18 with at least six months' experience in the sector: the full SMIC.",
            "legal_basis": "Code du travail, art. D3231-3",
            "valid_from": "2008-05-01",
            "valid_until": null,
            "source_url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000018533884",
            "source_date": "2008-05-01",
            "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
          },
          {
            "id": "fr-17",
            "reduction": 10,
            "experience_months": 6,
            "suffix": { "fr-FR": "minoré de 10\u00a0% (17 ans)", "en-GB": "less 10% (aged 17)" },
            "rule": "Aged 17 with less than six months' experience in the sector: the SMIC less 10 % (11.08 € an hour from 1 June 2026).",
            "legal_basis": "Code du travail, art. D3231-3, 2°",
            "valid_from": "2008-05-01",
            "valid_until": null,
            "source_url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000018533884",
            "source_date": "2008-05-01",
            "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
          },
          {
            "id": "fr-under17",
            "reduction": 20,
            "experience_months": 6,
            "suffix": { "fr-FR": "minoré de 20\u00a0% (moins de 17 ans)", "en-GB": "less 20% (under 17)" },
            "rule": "Under 17 with less than six months' experience in the sector: the SMIC less 20 % (9.85 € an hour from 1 June 2026).",
            "legal_basis": "Code du travail, art. D3231-3, 1°",
            "valid_from": "2008-05-01",
            "valid_until": null,
            "source_url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000018533884",
            "source_date": "2008-05-01",
            "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
          }
        ],
        "rounding": "A reduced SMIC is rounded to the cent, half away from zero, as Service-Public publishes it (11.08 € and 9.85 €).",
        "not_covered": "Apprentices and employees on a contrat de professionnalisation, whose minimum is a percentage of the SMIC set by age and year of the contract; sales representatives (VRP). The pay elements the SMIC check leaves out (Service-Public F2300: expense reimbursements, overtime premiums, profit-sharing, seniority, attendance and working-conditions bonuses, holiday and year-end bonuses unless paid monthly) are not separated: the amount entered is compared as it is. New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Wallis and Futuna: the arrêté of 22 May 2026 sets no SMIC there.",
        "see_also": [
          {
            "url": "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2300",
            "label": "Service-Public.gouv.fr: Smic (vérifié le 1er juin 2026): 12.31 € gross an hour, 1,867.02 € a month and 22,404.20 € a year at 35 hours; 11.08 € at 17 and 9.85 € under 17; Mayotte 9.56 €, 1,449.93 € and 17,399.20 €",
            "date": "2026-06-01",
            "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "GB": {
      "currency": "GBP",
      "calendar": {
        "weeks_per_year": 52,
        "months_per_year": 12,
        "rule": "No statute converts a week into a month or a year. For salaried hours work GOV.UK says an employer may use a weekly multiplier such as 52, 52.14 or 52.18; this table uses 52 weeks and 12 months, so a month is 52/12 weeks.",
        "legal_basis": "National Minimum Wage Regulations 2015, salaried hours work, as explained in GOV.UK's guidance",
        "valid_from": "2021-03-01",
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.gov.uk/guidance/calculating-the-minimum-wage/working-hours-for-which-the-minimum-wage-must-be-paid",
        "source_label": "GOV.UK: Calculating the minimum wage, working hours for which the minimum wage must be paid (updated 23 October 2026)",
        "source_date": "2026-10-23",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
      },
      "limits": {
        "week_average_max": 48,
        "average_weeks": 17,
        "under18_week_max": 40,
        "under18_day_max": 8,
        "rule": "Workers cannot work more than 48 hours a week on average, normally averaged over 17 weeks, unless they opt out. Workers under 18 cannot work more than 8 hours a day or 40 hours a week.",
        "legal_basis": "Working Time Regulations 1998",
        "valid_from": "1998-10-01",
        "valid_until": null,
        "source_url": "https://www.gov.uk/maximum-weekly-working-hours",
        "source_label": "GOV.UK: Maximum weekly working hours",
        "source_date": "2026-11-11",
        "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
      },
      "minimum_wage": {
        "territories": [
          {
            "id": "uk",
            "name": { "fr-FR": "Royaume-Uni", "en-GB": "United Kingdom" },
            "applies_in": "England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (National Minimum Wage Act 1998, section 56(3): the Act extends to Northern Ireland)",
            "legal_basis": "National Minimum Wage Act 1998, s. 56",
            "valid_from": "1998-07-31",
            "valid_until": null,
            "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/39/section/56",
            "source_date": "1998-07-31",
            "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
          }
        ],
        "bands": [
          {
            "id": "gb-21",
            "hourly": 12.71,
            "name": { "fr-FR": "National Living Wage (21 ans et plus)", "en-GB": "National Living Wage (21 and over)" },
            "previous": 12.21,
            "valid_from": "2026-04-01",
            "valid_until": "2027-03-31",
            "source_url": "https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates",
            "source_label": "GOV.UK: National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates",
            "source_date": "2026-11-11",
            "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
          },
          {
            "id": "gb-18-20",
            "hourly": 10.85,
            "name": { "fr-FR": "National Minimum Wage (18 à 20 ans)", "en-GB": "National Minimum Wage (18 to 20)" },
            "previous": 10,
            "valid_from": "2026-04-01",
            "valid_until": "2027-03-31",
            "source_url": "https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates",
            "source_label": "GOV.UK: National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates",
            "source_date": "2026-11-11",
            "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
          },
          {
            "id": "gb-under18",
            "hourly": 8,
            "under18": true,
            "name": { "fr-FR": "National Minimum Wage (moins de 18 ans)", "en-GB": "National Minimum Wage (under 18)" },
            "previous": 7.55,
            "valid_from": "2026-04-01",
            "valid_until": "2027-03-31",
            "source_url": "https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates",
            "source_label": "GOV.UK: National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates",
            "source_date": "2026-11-11",
            "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
          },
          {
            "id": "gb-apprentice",
            "hourly": 8,
            "apprentice": true,
            "apprentice_age_limit": 19,
            "name": { "fr-FR": "Taux apprenti", "en-GB": "Apprentice rate" },
            "rule": "Apprentices get the apprentice rate if they are under 19, or 19 or over and in the first year of their apprenticeship; otherwise the minimum wage for their age.",
            "previous": 7.55,
            "valid_from": "2026-04-01",
            "valid_until": "2027-03-31",
            "source_url": "https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates",
            "source_label": "GOV.UK: National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates",
            "source_date": "2026-11-11",
            "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
          }
        ],
        "rounding": "The rates are whole pence; nothing is rounded.",
        "not_covered": "The accommodation offset, pay deductions and the premium element of overtime or shift pay, which change what counts as pay for minimum wage purposes: the amount entered is compared as it is.",
        "see_also": [
          {
            "url": "https://www.gov.uk/guidance/calculating-the-minimum-wage/calculating-the-minimum-wage",
            "label": "GOV.UK: Calculating the minimum wage (updated 23 October 2026): the starting point is the worker's gross pay before any deductions; the premium element of shift and overtime pay does not count, so the worked examples take £9 of premium out of £252 for 20 hours (£243 ÷ 20 = £12.15) and of £493 for 40 hours (£484 ÷ 40 = £12.10)",
            "date": "2026-10-23",
            "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.gov.uk/overtime-your-rights",
            "label": "GOV.UK: Overtime, your rights: employers do not have to pay workers for overtime, but average pay must not fall below the minimum wage",
            "date": "2026-11-11",
            "retrieved": "2026-11-11"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "sources": [
    { "url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/id/JORFTEXT000054126589", "label": "Arrêté du 22 mai 2026 relatif au relèvement du salaire minimum de croissance", "date": "2026-05-24" },
    { "url": "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2300", "label": "Service-Public.gouv.fr: Smic", "date": "2026-06-01" },
    { "url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000006902858", "label": "Code du travail, art. L3242-1", "date": "2008-05-01" },
    { "url": "https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000018533884", "label": "Code du travail, art. D3231-3", "date": "2008-05-01" },
    { "url": "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F1911", "label": "Service-Public.gouv.fr: Durée du travail d’un salarié à temps plein", "date": "2025-09-25" },
    { "url": "https://www.service-public.gouv.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F2391", "label": "Service-Public.gouv.fr: Heures supplémentaires d’un salarié du secteur privé", "date": "2026-06-08" },
    { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/national-minimum-wage-rates", "label": "GOV.UK: National Minimum Wage and National Living Wage rates", "date": "2026-11-11" },
    { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/guidance/calculating-the-minimum-wage/working-hours-for-which-the-minimum-wage-must-be-paid", "label": "GOV.UK: Working hours for which the minimum wage must be paid", "date": "2026-10-23" },
    { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/guidance/calculating-the-minimum-wage/calculating-the-minimum-wage", "label": "GOV.UK: Calculating the minimum wage", "date": "2026-10-23" },
    { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/maximum-weekly-working-hours", "label": "GOV.UK: Maximum weekly working hours", "date": "2026-11-11" },
    { "url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/39/section/56", "label": "National Minimum Wage Act 1998, section 56", "date": "1998-07-31" }
  ]
}