FAQ
How much pension will I get in France?+
The régime général pays your salaire annuel moyen (the 25 best years, each capped at the PASS) times a rate of 50 % at the full rate, prorated by your quarters over the 166 to 172 required for your generation. Agirc-Arrco pays your points times 1.4386 EUR a year. For a full career at a constant salary below the PASS the two together come to about 60 to 75 % of the gross salary; the simulator computes both from your salary, your quarters and your claiming age, and compares with your estimation indicative globale if you enter it.
What is the pension gap and how do I calculate it?+
The difference between the monthly income you want in retirement and what the régime général and Agirc-Arrco pay after CSG, CRDS, CASA and income tax. Take your spending target in today's money, subtract the net pensions the simulator shows, and the rest has to come from a PER, an assurance-vie, a PEA or a brokerage account. The block under the verdict shows the gap and how much of it your savings close.
What is deducted from a gross pension?+
CSG at 0, 3.8, 6.6 or 8.3 % depending on the household's revenu fiscal de référence of two years earlier and its parts, plus CRDS (0.5 %) and CASA (0.3 %) from the reduced and median rates, and a 1 % health contribution on Agirc-Arrco at the normal rate. Then income tax on the pensions net of the deductible CSG, after the 10 % allowance. A single person with 24,000 EUR of pensions pays about 2,200 EUR of levies and a few hundred euros of income tax a year; a couple pays less thanks to the two parts and the joint décote.
Can I retire at 62, 60 or earlier?+
The pensions cannot start before your legal age (62 years 9 months to 64 depending on your generation after the 2026 suspension), except under a long career: 58 if you started before 16, 60 before 18, 60 to 62 before 20 and 63 before 21, with the full duration contributed. You can stop working earlier and live on your savings until then; the simulator shows those years as waiting years and keeps the PER closed until the legal age or the pension. A claim with missing quarters carries the décote for life; at 67 the full rate is automatic whatever your record.
What did the 2026 suspension of the pension reform change?+
The LFSS 2026 suspends the increase of the legal age and of the required duration from 1 September 2026 to 1 January 2028. People born in 1964 keep 62 years 9 months and 170 quarters instead of 63 and 171; born January to March 1965 keep 62 years 9 months and 170; April to December 1965 get 63 and 171; 1966, 1967 and 1968 get 63 years 3, 6 and 9 months with 172 quarters; from 1969 the reform's 64 and 172 quarters apply. Long careers shift by the same quarter. The simulator encodes the table by generation; the confidence field lets you plan with a margin for the next reform.
Is a PER worth it, and should I take it as capital or as an annuity?+
The deduction (10 % of professional income, at least 4,710 EUR and at most 37,680 EUR a year in 2026) is a deferral: the capital built from deducted contributions is taxed at the barème when withdrawn, without the 10 % allowance, and the gains at the flat tax. It pays when your marginal rate today is higher than in retirement, which is the usual case. As capital, withdraw a little each year to stay in the 11 % bracket; as a life annuity, the insurer pays about 4 % of the capital for life at 64, taxed as a pension and not indexed. The comparison block prices both on your numbers.
How are assurance-vie, PEA and a brokerage account taxed in retirement?+
Only the gain share of a withdrawal is taxed. Assurance-vie over 8 years: 4,600 EUR of gains a year (9,200 EUR for a couple) free of income tax, then 7.5 % (12.8 % on the share of premiums above 150,000 EUR), plus 17.2 % of social levies on every gain. PEA over 5 years: no income tax, social levies of 18.6 % from 2026. Brokerage account: the flat tax of 31.4 % (12.8 % plus 18.6 %) on gains, or the barème on option. The simulator tracks your cost basis in each wrapper and taxes only the gain share of what you draw.
What about my spouse and the survivor's pension?+
A married or PACS partner joins the plan under the marital status: their pensions and PER, one joint return with two parts, and their salary while they still work. The survivor scenario prices a death: the régime général réversion pays 54 % of the deceased's base pension from 55, reduced when the survivor's resources (own pensions, 70 % of earned income, 3 % of the capital) exceed 25,001.60 EUR a year; Agirc-Arrco pays 60 % from 55 with no means test and only to a spouse, not a PACS partner. A PACS partner has no réversion at all in the régime général either.
How much money do I need to retire in France?+
Less than 25 times your spending, because two statutory pensions cover part of it for life, the régime général indexed on prices. Take your monthly target, subtract the net pensions and the PER income, and the remaining gap times 12 times about 25 to 30 years of retirement is the capital you need, taxes included. For a single person wanting 2,800 EUR a month with an average career, that is typically a few tens of thousands to a couple of hundred thousand euros in savings, not millions.
Does it work for civil servants, the self-employed or cumul emploi-retraite?+
The simulator models private-sector employees: régime général and Agirc-Arrco. Civil servants (SRE, CNRACL: 75 % of the last six months' index salary) and the self-employed under the SSI (same base formula, no Agirc-Arrco but RCI points) or the liberal professions' schemes have their own rules and are not modelled; the confidence field and the average salary input can approximate a mixed career. Cumul emploi-retraite and retraite progressive are not modelled either, nor the real-estate wealth tax (IFI) on a large property estate.
All amounts are in today's purchasing power: nominal returns are deflated by the inflation assumption and contributions are held constant in real terms. Régime général: the salaire annuel moyen is the average of the 25 best years of a salary path (today's gross salary grown by the entered real rate until work stops, the same growth backwards for the years so far), each year capped at the PASS (48,060 EUR in 2026), or the average salary entered; the years so far are the validated quarters over four (or an estimate from age 22). Quarters accrue four a year while working (a salary of at least 7,212 EUR a year, 150 SMIC hours a quarter), plus the children's quarters entered. Legal age and required duration by generation as the loi de financement de la sécurité sociale pour 2026 suspended them (62 to 64, 166 to 172 quarters). Rate 50 % less 1.25 % per missing quarter, the missing quarters being the smaller of those to the duration and those to 67, at most 20; the pension prorated by validated over required quarters; surcote of 1.25 % per quarter worked after both the legal age and the duration; capped at 50 % of the PASS before the surcote and the 10 % for three or more children; raised to the minimum contributif (756.29 EUR, 903.93 EUR with 120 contributed quarters, prorated) at the full rate while all pensions stay under 1,410.89 EUR a month. Carrières longues: departure from 58, 60, 60 to 62 (by generation) or 63 when the activity started before 16, 18, 20 or 21 and the generation's duration is contributed by then; the five-quarter condition is assumed met. Base pensions follow prices. Agirc-Arrco: points so far from the statement, or 6.20 % of the salary to the PASS and 17 % of the part above (to 8 PASS) over the purchase price of 20.1877 EUR for each year so far, plus the same for the years to come; the pension is points times 1.4386 EUR with the coefficient d'anticipation when the base is not at the full rate, the lesser of the minoration by missing quarters (1 % each to 12, then 1.25 % to 0.78 at 20) and the minoration by the age at the claim (the same scale per quarter before 67, 1.75 % per quarter below 62), and the 10 % for three children capped at 2,367 EUR; the point follows prices less the entered drift. The statement's projected pensions calibrate the average salary and the points. Income tax: one return for the household (married or PACS); pensions net of the deductible CSG (3.8, 4.2 or 5.9 points) and the 1 % health contribution, less the 10 % allowance (at least 454 EUR per pensioner, at most 4,439 EUR per household); the partner's salary net of employee contributions and the deductible CSG, less 10 % (509 to 14,555 EUR); PER capital withdrawals in full; the 2026 barème (0, 11, 30, 41, 45 % at 11,600, 29,579, 84,577 and 181,917 EUR per part) through the quotient familial with the cap of 1,807 EUR per extra half part (1,079 EUR for the case L half part of a person alone who raised a child) and the décote (897 or 1,483 EUR less 45.25 % of the gross tax). CSG, CRDS and CASA on the pensions by the band the year's revenu fiscal de référence and the parts put the household in (13,048, 17,057 and 26,472 EUR for one part, plus 3,484, 4,555 and 7,066 EUR per extra half part), with the 1 % health contribution on complementary pensions at the normal rate; the law reads the RFR of two years earlier. PER: as capital, an income pot drawn as needed, the deducted share of each withdrawal (the contributions' share of the balance at the payout) at the barème and the gain share at the flat tax of 31.4 %, drawn first up to the top of the 11 % bracket, then again after the savings; as an annuity, the balance times the entered conversion rate, fixed in nominal terms, taxed as a pension. The PER opens at the pension or at the legal age, or at the death of its holder. Assurance-vie: a pot with its own cost basis (today's value less the entered gain share, plus the premiums), drawn first each year up to the withdrawal whose gain equals the allowance (4,600 EUR, 9,200 EUR for a couple), then after the PEA and the brokerage account; gains at 7.5 % after the allowance (12.8 % on the share of premiums above 150,000 EUR per person) plus 17.2 % of social levies; contracts assumed over 8 years. PEA: social levies of 18.6 % on the gain share, assumed over 5 years. Brokerage account: the flat tax of 31.4 % on the gain share; the cost basis is today's value less the entered gain plus the savings from now on; bases are nominal, so inflation gains are taxed as in law. The headline income is the highest level monthly spending, in today's money, that the year-by-year run can finance to the plan age without a shortfall in any year; the run at your actual target reports the age at which the capital runs out. A partner is simulated on the first person's age scale with their own record, salary, claiming age and PER; their gross salary counts while they still work, taxed in the joint return with the employee contributions (vieillesse, Agirc-Arrco, CEG, CET, CSG and CRDS) as a cost. Survivor scenario: from the death the deceased's pensions stop and their unpaid PER joins the household's; the régime général réversion pays 54 % of the deceased's base pension from the survivor's 55 (at least 334.92 EUR a month with 60 quarters, plus 10 % for three children, plus 11.1 % from 67 under the quarterly ceiling), reduced by the excess of the survivor's resources (own pensions, 70 % of earned income, 3 % of the household's capital at the death, read once from a first run of the plan) over 25,001.60 EUR a year; the Agirc-Arrco réversion pays 60 % of the deceased's from 55; the return is a single person's (with the case L half part when it applies) and spending steps down to the entered share. Not modelled: civil servants' and self-employed schemes, cumul emploi-retraite, retraite progressive, the surcote parentale, the ASPA (1,043.59 EUR a month alone in 2026, recovered on the estate), the IFI, the contribution différentielle sur les hauts revenus, the five-quarter test of the long career, the transfer of an inherited PER, assurance-vie contracts under 8 years and PEA under 5 years, the 150,000 EUR PEA ceiling, remarriage. Estimates only, not financial or tax advice. Signed-in users are prefilled from their profile, pension accounts and PEA accounts; until confirmed on the profile, the gross salary is estimated as the monthly net income times 12 divided by 0.78.
Sources: service-public.gouv.fr (âge de départ F14043, CSG sur les pensions F2971, pension de réversion F13106, assurance-vie F22414, PEA F2385, PER F34982) · lassuranceretraite.fr (carrières longues 2026, minimum contributif) · Code de la sécurité sociale, art. L161-17-2, L161-17-3, L351-1, L351-1-1, L351-1-2, L351-8, L351-10, L351-12, L353-1, L136-8 · Loi 2023-270 du 14 avril 2023 · Loi 2025-1403 du 30 décembre 2025 de financement de la sécurité sociale pour 2026, art. 45 · Décret du 8 mai 2026 (carrières longues) · Agirc-Arrco, valeurs du point 2025-2026, coefficients de minoration (édition septembre 2026), ANI du 5 octobre 2023 · Loi 2026-103 du 19 février 2026 de finances pour 2026, art. 197 CGI · BOI-IR-LIQ-20-20-20 and BOI-IR-LIQ-20-20-30 (7 April 2026) · art. 158, 125-0 A, 157, 163 quatervicies and 200 A CGI · URSSAF, taux de cotisations 2026