Are bonuses taken into account for the retirement of public officials?

Verified 23 January 2026 - Public Service / Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

Yes, your premiums are taken into account for retirement. However, they are taken into account differently depending on who you are official or contractor.

Public servant

Your premiums are taken into account only for your retirement complementary.

As a civil servant, you receive 2 retirement pensions:

  • One basic retirement of SRE: titleContent if you are a public official or a CNRACL: titleContent if you are a territorial or hospital official
  • And one supplementary pension of the Additional Public Service Retirement (AFP).

Your premiums serve as the basis for contributions to the RAFP in the limit from 20% the amount of your index treatment.

Example :

If your gross index treatment is €27,600 per year (€2,300 per month) and the amount of your €8,400 gross per year (€700 per month), you contribute to the RAFP on €5,520 per year (€460 per month), that is to say 20% from €27,600.

The differential amount of premiums (€8,400 - €5,520 = €2,880) does not give rise to any contributions and is not taken into account for retirement.

The RAFP is a points-based pension plan, i.e. your contributions are converted in retreat points.

When you retire, these pension points are converted back into a pension amount.

Reminder

Your contributions to the SRE: titleContent or to the CNRACL: titleContent are calculated on the basis of your index treatment and New Index Subsidy (NBI) if you receive this additional remuneration.

Your pension is calculated based on the index salary received for at least 6 months before your departure retired. And the periods of collection of the NBI entitle you to a pension supplement.

Contractual

You contribute to the Retirement Insurance (as a private sector employee) on all elements of your compensation. It's your basic retirement.

So your bonuses are taken into account in the calculation of the remuneration used as a basis for calculating your contributions.

And when you retire, your retirement pension is calculated on the basis of average gross wages for the most advantageous 25 years of your career.

In determining the highest annual gross wages, all elements of remuneration are taken into account.

You also contribute to the supplementary pension of theIrcantec: titleContent. Again, all elements of your remuneration are taken into account to determine your contribution base.

Ircantec is a points-based pension plan, i.e. your contributions are converted in retreat points.

When you retire, these pension points are converted back into a pension amount.

Thus, your premiums are taken into account for the calculation of your basic pension from the Retirement Insurance and for the calculation of your supplementary pension from Ircantec.