This page exists so that a sceptic can test us. If the method does not convince you, no figure on this site should convince you either.
Where the figures come from
From the Treasury's catalogue of payable services, maintained by the administration itself in French and English: 405 entries across 36 ministries. We read it through its data interface rather than by copying a rendered page, because the public portal serves an empty shell to a crawler. That is also why no search engine knows the catalogue, and why an agency in Paris can be 25 percent out without ever being contradicted.
Of the 405 entries we publish 398. The seven we leave out are four test records and three the administration has not translated, and we do not translate those ourselves: an invented English name for an official act is not an official name. Variants of the same act are grouped, which gives 379 pages. 114 entries carry a fee, and roughly two thirds of those name a legal instrument.
Most instruments are published in French only. We link the French document and quote the figure from it, rather than paraphrase a decree into English and present that as the text.
Eight entries out of 405 state a processing time. Eight is not enough to promise anything, so we publish no processing times at all. It is the question we will be asked most often.
How often we read it
Every day. Each read is archived with its date, raw, and a later read never overwrites an earlier one. Every page shows the date it was last read. If a figure changes at source this morning, our page can be up to a day behind. We would rather print that than imply a live feed.
When no instrument is named
About one fee in three arrives with no legal reference attached. The page then says so, in a different colour, with one sentence: the Treasury publishes this amount without naming the instrument behind it. We do not fill the gap. We do not go hunting for a 2012 order with a similar number to make the page look solid, and we do not copy another site's figure to corroborate our own. That second habit produced the errors this site exists to correct.
When a figure changes
The state writes over its own schedules instead of versioning them. Because we keep every dated read, we can say when an amount changed and what it was before. That history exists nowhere else, including at the source. A change produces a new read date, with the previous amount kept in the archive. We never swap a number quietly.
When a source goes offline
This happens constantly. The Ministry of Labour's domain does not resolve. The electricity utility returns a 503. The customs service runs a compulsory national programme on an expired certificate, which means an ordinary browser blocks the page.
We then keep the last copy we read, date it, state on the page that the source is unreachable, and leave the link so you can try it yourself. A dead source is not a reason to delete the amount. It is also not confirmation of it. A document nobody can open is a weaker document, and the page says so.
What we refuse to publish
The minimum wage. Four figures circulate, 36,270, 43,969, 45,000 and 60,000, and they do not reconcile. We could pick one, write a good page and rank for it within a month. Until we can cite the instrument in force, we publish the disagreement instead of a number.
What the method does not give you
Any guarantee about the counter. We publish the instrument, not the conduct of the official in front of you. Our wording carries the same caveat: translation here is contextual, so our English label for an act can drift from its official name, and the French original stays on the page.
How to check us
Open a page, follow the link to the instrument, read the amount at the source. If they differ, write to us. We correct it, we redate it, and we say what went wrong.
Page updated 18 October 2026