The average salary of the hospital public service fell in 2023

By The New Obs with AFP

Published on July 23, 2025 at 9:39 p.m.

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The Paris SAMU and the Emergency Medical Assistance Service (SAMU-SMUR) at Necker Hospital, in Paris, on July 22, 2025. ROMUALD MEIGNEUX/SIPA

The average net salary of hospital public service employees (civil servants, non-civil servants and doctors) fell by 0.9% in 2023 in constant euros (after taking inflation into account), to 2,842 euros in full-time equivalent, according to Drees, the statistical directorate of the social ministries.

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The decline is roughly comparable to that observed in the private sector, where the average net full-time equivalent salary fell by 0.8% in constant euros in 2023, according to INSEE figures. That year, inflation remained high at 4.9%.

According to figures published Wednesday by the Drees, it was civil servants (just under three-quarters of hospital civil servants) who saw their average net salary decrease, with a drop of 1.4% in constant euros.

The decline is concentrated in categories B and A (the highest), with average salaries in constant euros falling by 1.7% (to 2,524 euros) and 2.7% (to 3,038 euros) respectively. Category C (the lowest) is spared, with an increase of 0.9%, to 2,129 euros.

Women continue to receive lower wages

Non-civil servants and doctors are spared. Non-civil servants see their average remuneration increase by 1.2% in constant euros (2,132 euros), while that of doctors remains almost stable at +0.1% (6,812 euros net), after a decrease of 1.5% in 2022. Generally speaking, "salary disparities are decreasing" , observes the Drees.

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This phenomenon is explained in particular by measures to preserve the purchasing power of the lowest-paid staff, "including the payment of the exceptional purchasing power bonus to staff whose gross salary is less than 3,250 euros" .

Another lesson from this barometer is that women (who represent 78% of hospital public sector employees) continue to receive an average net salary that is significantly lower (by 19.1%) than that of men, a gap that is "much greater" than that of the public sector as a whole (where the gap is 9.9%).

This gap - which is decreasing - is explained by a "particularly marked" under-representation of women in the most well-paid jobs.

Overall, with an identical profile, i.e. identical age, qualification (grade), status and type of employer (hospitals or medical-social establishments), "women will receive 4.2% less than men in 2023, a gap down 0.2 points (4.4% in 2022)" , according to the Drees.

By The New Obs with AFP

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The average salary of the hospital public service fell in 2023

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