France uses a 35-hour legal full-time week, and Everhour helps teams plan capacity before overtime becomes routine.
Calculate regular and overtime earnings based on your hours and rate. Supports standard time-and-a-half and double-time multipliers.
Total hours including overtime
Typically 40h/week
The calculator gives you the number — Everhour takes it from there.
One click and you're timing. Start a timer, add an entry, edit the details. This is exactly how it feels in Everhour.
Set a budget, assign rates, and get alerted before you're over.
Measurement
Track your budget through time or costs
Every report you need — configured your way, always up to date.
Tracked hours flow straight into a polished invoice — no copy-paste, no manual math.
This calculation answers how much extra pay is due when an employee in France works beyond the legal full-time working duration. France sets legal full-time working time at 35 hours per week, also expressed by Service-Public as 151.67 hours per month and 1,607 hours per year. The standard hourly overtime calculation does not cover senior executives or employees working under an annual days package.
The practical question is not only "how many extra hours were worked?" It is also whether a company, establishment, or branch collective agreement changes the counting week, annual overtime quota, or premium rates. Without such an agreement, overtime is counted by calendar week from Monday 00:00 through Sunday 24:00, and the default French premium tiers apply.
In the absence of a collective agreement, hours 36 through 43 in a week are paid with a 25% salary increase. Weekly overtime from the 44th hour onward is paid with a 50% salary increase. A collective agreement can set different overtime premium rates, but each rate must be at least 10%, so the agreement must be checked before final payroll use.
For example, an eligible hourly employee works 46 hours in one Monday-to-Sunday week at €28 per hour, with no collective agreement changing the default premiums. Regular pay is 35 hours × €28 = €980. The first 8 overtime hours are paid at €35, or €280. The final 3 overtime hours are paid at €42, or €126. Total gross pay for the week is €1,386.
The pay formula is only one part of the decision. Actual work in France is generally capped at 10 hours per day, 48 hours in a single week, and an average of 44 hours per week over 12 consecutive weeks, subject to specified derogations. A payroll calculation can be arithmetically correct and still reveal a scheduling problem that needs management review.
Annual quota rules matter as overtime accumulates. If no applicable collective agreement sets the annual overtime quota, the default quota is 220 overtime hours per employee per year. Overtime beyond the annual quota triggers mandatory rest consideration of 50% of excess hours in companies with up to 20 employees and 100% in companies with more than 20 employees, unless a more favorable agreement applies. May 1 work follows a separate double-pay rule.
A calculator is enough for a one-off check when you know the employee category, weekly hours, hourly rate, applicable agreement, and whether the hours fall inside the annual quota. It gives a clean gross-pay result for a defined week. Keep the result tied to the exact Monday-to-Sunday period or to the seven-day period set by the applicable collective agreement.
A managed workflow becomes necessary when overtime repeats across projects, teams, and schedules. Approved time records, overtime review, reporting, and payroll handoff reduce disputes over which hours counted and when they were approved. Everhour Resource Planning adds visual timelines, member and project views, weekly capacity, availability gaps, scheduled time off, and planned-vs-actual comparisons so managers can see pressure before extra hours reach payroll.
This content is for general information only, may not be fully up to date, and is provided without any warranty or liability.
High Performer
G2
Summer 2026
Best Ease Of Use
Capterra
Summer 2026
Rated in the top time trackers across G2, Capterra, and TrustRadius — with consistent praise for ease of use, integrations, and support.
France sets the legal full-time working duration at 35 hours per week. For employees covered by the standard hourly overtime rules, hours beyond that weekly baseline are overtime unless a specific category or arrangement excludes them, such as senior executives or employees under an annual days package. Collective agreements can also define the counting week and premium structure.
When no collective agreement applies, the first eight overtime hours in a week, hours 36 through 43, are paid with a 25% salary increase. Overtime from the 44th hour onward is paid with a 50% salary increase. If an agreement sets different premiums, each rate must still be at least 10%.
Yes. A company, establishment, or branch collective agreement can set the counting week, annual overtime quota, and premium rates. The premium rates cannot fall below 10%. That agreement should be checked before using a default calculation, because the same 46-hour week can produce a different payroll result under a valid local or sector rule.
A common mistake is counting overtime by calendar month instead of the correct week. Unless a collective agreement defines another seven-day period, overtime is counted from Monday 00:00 through Sunday 24:00. Monthly totals are useful for payroll summaries, but they do not replace the weekly overtime test for standard hourly employees.
May 1 has a separate rule. It is a mandatory non-working public holiday except for activities that cannot interrupt work. Employees who work on May 1 receive their normal pay plus an equal indemnity. Do not replace that double-pay holiday rule with the ordinary 25% or 50% weekly overtime tiers.
Everhour Resource Planning shows workload on visual timelines with member and project views, weekly capacity, availability gaps, scheduled time off, and planned-vs-actual time. Managers can spot overallocated weeks before hours exceed a realistic schedule, then adjust assignments before payroll has to process repeated overtime.
Everhour Reporting can surface logged time, costs, budgets, and overtime visibility through Team Hours and custom reports. Reports can be filtered, grouped, exported to CSV, Excel/XLSX, or PDF, and scheduled by email so payroll reviewers work from the same approved time data.
Use a calculator for the weekly result, then manage recurring overtime with Everhour Resource Planning to compare planned work, capacity, time off, and actual hours.
14-day free trial · No credit card · Cancel anytime
