The pay slip of millions of French people will change from this June. With new lines, new titles and a revised presentation, it promises to become a little more readable.
Often perceived as a jungle of acronyms and obscure amounts, the salary slip, offers a slight facelift from this month of June 2025. All employees will receive an updated version of their pay sheet, with discreet but revealing modifications of a wider movement of administrative simplification. Nothing revolutionary apparently, but a few key lines will evolve, and their impact goes beyond simple reading comfort.
One of the main innovations concerns the appearance of a line called “social net amount”. Already experienced in certain sectors, this data now becomes compulsory for all companies. This figure, calculated according to a unified method, corresponds to the income actually received by the employee after social security contributions, to the exclusion of income tax. It does not replace the classic net salary, but will serve as the basis for the evaluation of rights to certain social aids such as the RSA or the activity bonus. One way, for the government, to streamline the procedures with CAF, and to avoid declaration errors.
Another evolution: some titles are reviewed to be more explicit. The line “Work accidents – occupational disease” is a good example. It will be reformulated to emphasize more clearly that it is a contribution paid by the employer to URSSAF, intended to cover the risks linked to professional activity. And precisely, from May 2025, this contribution increased, with rates adjusted according to the sectors. Employees will not see their net drop, but their companies will see the invoice climb.
In parallel, the unemployment contribution drops slightly, from 4.05 % to 4 % of the gross salary. A relative respite for employers, because this drop is offset by other less visible increases in contributions. For employees, the change is imperceptible: except in special cases (bonus, increase, etc.), net salary will remain the same at the end of the month.
Beyond these technical adjustments, this new salary slip is part of a wider will: to make the pay sheet understandable by all. Less lines, more logical groupings, simplified terms … So many elements supposed to restore the employee a minimum of control over a document which, so far, sometimes was a puzzle. For administration, it is also a question of laying the foundations for a standardized system, more easily exploitable in a digital format.
This modernization project, long postponed, therefore arrives at a concrete stage. Even if the ultra-summated bulletin project has been paused by the government, this progressive development may well initiate a lasting transformation. And perhaps, in the long term, make the salary slip a citizen tool rather than a document thrown at the bottom of a drawer.