Childcare, childminders, family employees, life assistants : the home employment sector has significantly increased all salaries in 2022. Socio-professional organization of individual employers, FEPEM publishes exclusive figures from the Home Employment Observatory.
In 2022, the sector of private employers and home employment has significantly increased salaries. For the third consecutive year, The 3,3 million individual employers increased the salaries of their employees (all professions combined), for a total of 8,9 billion euros in net payroll paid to home-based employees and childminders. The branch carries out regular increases in conventional minimum wages, in support of constant social dialogue and individual negotiations between individual employers and their employees at home. For the year 2022 alone, no less than four successive revaluations took place. These salary increases are higher than those in the private sector for life assistants, family workers and home child care workers (+3,7% according to estimates from the Banque de France). “Our employees receive a level of remuneration which is well above the minimum wage.. Job creation, increased salaries, increasing purchasing power for households, thanks in particular to the immediate tax credit : the sector of individual employers and home employment is a civic model, committed and responsible who actively participates in the economic dynamics of the territories”, Congratulations Sigried Debruyne, statutory president of FEPEM in charge of social dialogue.
AVERAGE NET HOURLY WAGES PAID BY INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYERS IN 2022 IN RÉUNION
Life assistant : 10,€87 net per hour (national average : 11,98 €)
Family employee : 9,€87 net per hour (national average : 11,82 €)
Childcare at home : 9,€69 net per hour and per child welcomed (national average : 10,07 euros).
Maternal assistant : 4,€67 net per hour and per child welcomed (national average : 3,78 €).
Source : data from the fourth quarter of 2022 from Urssaf National Fund, published by the Home Employment Observatory.
800,000 jobs to be filled by 2030
The sector's social partners continue their mobilization with two new increases occurring since January 2023. The commitment was thus made to increase the conventional minimum salary of childminders to the minimum salary provided for by the social action and families code., increased by at least 6%. otherwise, an amendment applicable to employees of the individual employer perpetuates a salary level at least equal to the SMIC increased by 2%, and this from level 1 of the grid. “This is a strong gesture for the attractiveness of the sector, because the challenges are real : 800,000 jobs will need to be filled by 2030.” FEPEM warns of the urgent need to recruit childminders, a profession currently facing numerous retirements. The challenge is “immense”, because to compensate and maintain a capacity for individual reception of young children identical to that of today, the hiring of 156,000 childminders and childminders at home is expected by 2030. The home employment sector allows for a balance between professional and personal life, which has an impact on the employment rate of women.. “It is urgent to attract new generations to its professions. The increase in salaries and the opening of apprenticeships in the sector that we have obtained demonstrate our mobilization”, specifies Marie Béatrice Levaux, president of the sectoral strategy of the FEPEM.
