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Wages and SMIC (minimum wage), Jean-Luc Mélenchon

Wage increases and indexation: Index wages to inflation, in the private sector and the civil service

Direction of change: creation of a scheme, compared with current law.

The lever. Rules that make wages rise beyond the SMIC (minimum wage): indexation to prices, wage conferences, sector-level bargaining obligations. Direction rule: ↑ wages better protected by law (indexation, minimum rates, mandatory bargaining).

« Porter immédiatement le SMIC mensuel à 1600 euros net et indexer les salaires sur l’inflation dans le privé et dans la fonction publique »1

Translation by the editorsImmediately raise the monthly SMIC to 1600 euros net and index wages to inflation in the private sector and in the civil service

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No cost-schedule parameter for this position: see the costing for the reason.

Costing

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not announced

The programme does not cost this measure.

Published costings

none

No external costing of this position recorded to date.

Our calculation

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Lever with no coefficient in the cost schedule: the position is compared, not costed.

Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule

Current law. No automatic indexation of private-sector wages to prices (only the SMIC is indexed, Labour Code, Art. L3231-4 et seq.). In the civil service, the value of the public sector pay index point is set by decree.

Horizon. Full year, €bn per year, in 2022 euros, not updated for 2032

Limits. Not costed here: the cost of the civil service pay index point is carried by the « fonction-publique » lever. Indexation of private sector wages (sliding scale) has no direct static budgetary cost, except through public employers and indexed benefits: not costed. Benchmark: iFRAP 2022 costs « 2 points » [“2 points”] of index point value at €4bn (the think tank's own costing), consistent with the official cost of one point, €2.17bn to €2.27bn (Senate, 2022 and 2023 increases), carried by the « fonction-publique » lever.

How to read these amounts. These are static costs and revenues, with no feedback effect, over a full year: nothing on growth, employment or the revenue that economic activity would gain or lose. A higher net cost does not on its own make a worse policy, nor net savings a better one: each programme rests on an economic model (demand-led stimulus, lower compulsory levies, consolidation of the public accounts…) that the cost schedule does not settle. GDP itself measures a volume of activity, not well-being or the usefulness of what is produced. Economic models and feedback effects.

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  1. L’Avenir en commun (édition 2025), p. 35. Open the document at this page.

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