Basic Pension: How Many Years You Have to Work with Average Wage

New data show how long it takes to reach a pension above the basic security level. Even with average wages, decades are needed.

If you want to get along without state aid in old age, you need long years of work. New figures show how much work is needed for it.

You wonder how much does an incomplete 20-year career earn? It's important to know that the length of contributions strongly influences your retirement. A person who has worked 10 years will not receive the same pension as another with 20 years of activity. In France, the system is based on precise but sometimes complex rules. Incomes, quarters, starting age, aids like Aspa: we decrypt all this to allow you to estimate your retirement and help y…

Reading time 3 minutesAmong our readers, the idea is that the last years before the pension are particularly important, thus having an extraordinary impact on the amount of the pension. Is this true? Where this idea comes from, and how the pension is really calculated, we show you in this article. Do the last years of work count more for the pension? The years before the pension are not counted separately from the statutory pension insurance. Ev…