Working afternoons, nights, Saturdays or Sundays… In France, almost 10.5 million employees face atypical working hours at least once a month. A restriction that weighs down the balance between private life and professional life but that allows most of the time to obtain a better remuneration in return. This is confirmed by the latest Dares study published on Wednesday.
According to the statistics service of the Ministry of Labor, full-time workers who between 2019 and 2021 worked more than half of their working day at night (between midnight and 5 in the morning) received on average and with a comparable profile (age, sex…) a net monthly salary 6.8% higher than that of workers who only worked during the day. Those who worked less than half their hours at night also earned more (+2.6%) than their colleagues who worked only regular hours.
The same observation for employees and intermediate professions who received respectively 5.2 and 3.7% more than their peers when they worked more than half of their hours at night.
Sunday work pays better…
For intermediate professions, as well as for executives, it is nevertheless the work on Sunday that continues to be the most interesting with, respectively, a higher net salary of 4.6 and 10.6% for those who work at least two Sundays. in a four week period. This wage surplus is also +6.1% for manual workers and 4.9% for employees accustomed to Sunday work.
Company agreements on night and Sunday work increase strongly
Between 2014 and 2019, the number of company agreements related to evening, night or Sunday work increased continuously, from 9,896 to 19,386. A strong increase that is partly explained by the law of August 6, 2015 that authorizes certain shops to open on Sundays when they are in tourist areas.
Employees who work in the afternoon between 8:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. also receive a higher salary than those who work during the day, although the economic advantage is less important than that provided by night or Sunday work: + 5.9% for executives, +4.6% for employees, +4.3% for workers and +2.5% for intermediate professions.
… but I don’t work on Saturdays
Ultimately, working Saturdays is the only form of atypical workday that doesn’t allow you to earn more. Thus, the net monthly salary of workers and intermediate professions who work at least one Saturday a month is globally the same as that of those who do not work with an equivalent profile. While the salary of executives and employees who work on Saturdays is even lower than that of the others (-2.6% and -2.9%, respectively).
Source: BFM TV
