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Capacity utilization tells you what share of a person's available working capacity became billable time. In France, that starts with the full-time private-sector working-time reference of 35 hours per week, 151.67 hours per month, and 1,607 hours per year unless a collective agreement sets a different weekly duration.
The result matters when you price retainers, review staffing, set annual billable targets, or compare teams with different leave and holiday calendars. A consultant with 1,158 billable hours against 1,544 available hours has 75% utilization. The same billable total against a larger denominator gives a lower rate.
Use this formula: billable hours divided by available hours, multiplied by 100. Billable hours are hours actually billed or eligible to bill. Available hours are the capacity base after your policy handles paid leave, nonworked public holidays, part-time schedules, and worker categories that do not use hourly capacity.
Example: a French full-time employee has a 1,607-hour annual reference. The company treats 9 weekday public holidays in 2026 as nonworked and values each at 7 hours, reducing capacity by 63 hours. Available hours are 1,544. If the employee records 1,158 billable hours, utilization is 1,158 / 1,544 * 100 = 75%.
France has 5 weeks of statutory paid leave, equal to 30 jours ouvrables for a full year. Public holidays need separate handling. The general French case has 11 national legal public holidays, but only May 1 is mandatorily nonworked for all employees except activities that cannot stop.
Other public holidays reduce available hours only when a collective agreement, branch or company agreement, or the employer makes them nonworked. Alsace-Moselle and overseas territories can add local holidays, so a national template needs a local adjustment field. France does not set a statutory national billable-utilization target, so your target remains a firm-level operating policy.
A one-off calculation is enough when you need a quick annual check for one person, one role, or one staffing scenario. It works when billable hours are already final, leave assumptions are clear, and the person uses an hourly capacity model instead of an annual forfait-jours arrangement.
A managed workflow is better when utilization feeds monthly reporting, billing reviews, staffing decisions, or budget follow-up. Everhour Reporting can group tracked time by person, project, client, and date range, then export CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF reports so the same utilization inputs support recurring management review.
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A full-time private-sector hourly denominator in France starts from the legal annual working-time reference of 1,607 hours. Adjust that base for the worker's schedule, collective agreement, paid leave treatment, nonworked public holidays, and company policy. Employees on annual forfait-jours arrangements need a day-based capacity model instead of an hourly denominator.
Only May 1 is mandatorily nonworked for all employees except activities that cannot stop. The other national legal public holidays reduce available capacity only when a collective agreement, branch or company agreement, or the employer makes them nonworked. In 2026, 9 national legal holidays fall on Monday through Friday.
A forfait-jours employee can use the same utilization concept, but the denominator should be days, not hours. The annual forfait-jours cap is 218 working days unless the applicable collective agreement sets a lower number. Service Public's 2026 example calculates 9 rest days after weekends, paid leave, weekday public holidays, and 218 working days.
French official guidance sets working-time, leave, public-holiday, and forfait-day capacity inputs, but it does not set a statutory national billable-utilization benchmark. Set the target from your firm's operating model, role expectations, pricing, and non-billable workload. Keep the legal capacity base separate from the commercial target.
Two calculations diverge when they use different denominator rules. One may subtract all weekday public holidays, while another subtracts only May 1. One may use 1,607 annual hours, while another uses a collective-agreement schedule or part-time capacity. Regional holidays in Alsace-Moselle or overseas territories also change the available-hours base.
Everhour Reporting turns logged time, budgets, costs, and project data into customizable reports with 45+ columns, grouping, filters, date ranges, and exports. Managers can separate billable time from other work, group by member or project, and schedule recurring reports for utilization review.
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