Daily Rate to Net Salary: What You Really Keep Each Month

You bill €500 a day and wonder what actually lands in your account at the end of the month? Almost every consultant leaving a permanent job asks the same thing. Your daily rate (TJM) is a selling price, not a salary, and the gap between the two often comes as a surprise.

From TJM to net salary: management fees come off first, then social contributions, and what remains is your net pay. In the WEEPO 2026 Barometer, median monthly revenue of €10,260 leaves a median net salary of €4,200, or about 41%.

Are you a consultant or freelancer? Estimate your net wage portage salary from your daily rate in 2 minutes with the WEEPO salary simulator.

Converting a daily rate into salary: the Barometer benchmark

A daily rate converts into a net salary of roughly 41% of billed revenue, going by the median of WEEPO's ported consultants. The WEEPO 2026 Barometer draws on 20,000 payslips: the median daily rate is €526, median monthly revenue €10,260 and median monthly net salary €4,200. Half of consultants sit between €450 and €600 per day.

One caveat: medians don't multiply into each other. They're a benchmark, not a promise. Your own case depends on billed days, expenses and options (health cover, meal vouchers).

Calculating net salary from your daily rate in 4 steps

The calculation has four steps: revenue, management fees, contributions, net. You start from the daily rate times the days actually billed, remove the portage company's fees, then the social contributions that fund your employee protection. What's left is your net salary, before income tax and excluding reimbursed business expenses.

1. Monthly revenue: daily rate times billed days (18 days at €500 make €9,000).
2. Management fees: 3% management fees, capped at €550 per mission, plus 2% in additional fees (professional liability insurance, occupational health, factoring and financial guarantee, CVAE).
3. Employer and employee contributions: they turn the balance into gross salary, then net.
4. Net salary: the amount paid out, before withholding tax.

The €550 cap on the 3% only kicks in at €18,333 of revenue per mission, so it never applies in these three examples. Net pay is left out of the table on purpose: it depends on your payslip. To get it line by line, simulating your wage portage salary takes two minutes.

Each fee item is broken down in the WEEPO management fee schedule. To see the whole mechanism, from invoice to payslip, read our wage portage salary formula.

Gross vs net daily rate: why the gap is wider than for an employee

A gross-to-net daily rate doesn't really exist. The TJM is a price excluding VAT billed to the client, not a gross salary. An employee compares gross with net. A consultant compares pre-tax revenue with net pay, after fees, contributions, health cover and days without a mission.

Daily rate and salary: what the day price leaves out

A month of 20 billed days doesn't happen all year. Holidays, gaps between missions, prospecting days: all of it drags down your annual average. The IDCC 3219 collective agreement also provides for a 10% financial reserve on permanent contracts, which you should build into your numbers.

What it changes for a consultant or freelancer in portage

In wage portage, your daily rate reads like a payslip, not like company profit. You stay free to set your own rate, but you receive a salary with social protection. The IDCC 3219 agreement sets a floor: 75% of the PMSS (€3,003.75 gross per month full-time) for a senior consultant, 85% (€3,404.25) for an expert, with a 2026 PMSS of €4,005.

On the market side, the 2026 Hays study relayed by Blog du Modérateur (over 2,500 professionals) puts a full stack developer's daily rate in Paris between €450 (0 to 3 years of experience) and €650 (over 8 years). A project manager's runs from €600 to €800.

Take Karim, a full stack developer with seven years of experience (an illustrative case, not a WEEPO client). He bills €580 a day for 18 days. His monthly revenue reaches €10,440, WEEPO fees come to €522 (5%), and €9,918 remains before contributions.

Against a micro-enterprise the reasoning shifts: compare portage vs micro-enterprise by setting revenue, costs and social protection side by side. The professional expenses in portage that you're reimbursed come on top of your salary rather than out of it.

For an IT consultant, wage portage for consultants remains a serious option among others. A WEEPO wage portage company holds the Zero Hidden Fees label awarded by the Fedep's. Current contribution rates are published on urssaf.fr, and the agreement itself is available on Légifrance.

Are you a developer? Find benchmarks for your job on the full stack developer wage portage page, then compare them with your current rate.

Frequently asked questions

How do you convert a daily rate into net salary?

Multiply the rate by billed days, remove management fees (3% capped at €550 per mission, plus 2% in additional fees at WEEPO), then contributions. The simulator runs this calculation on your own inputs.

How much is left net on a €500 daily rate?

Over 18 days, revenue is €9,000 and WEEPO fees are €450. The exact net depends on your contributions and options. As a benchmark, at the Barometer median, net salary is about 41% of revenue.

What is the difference between a gross and a net daily rate?

The TJM is a price excluding VAT, not a gross salary. You talk about revenue first, then gross and net salary once fees and contributions are removed.

Is a €500 daily rate equal to a permanent-contract salary?

Not directly. The rate also covers your days without a mission, your social protection and your expenses. Compare your average monthly net over the year with a permanent salary instead.

Which fees come off the daily rate in wage portage?

The portage company's management fees, then contributions. At WEEPO: 3% management fees, capped at €550 per mission, plus 2% in additional fees (professional liability insurance, occupational health, factoring and financial guarantee, CVAE).

Key takeaways

• The TJM is a price excluding VAT: net salary is only part of it.
• WEEPO 2026 Barometer: €10,260 median revenue for €4,200 median net, about 41%.
• At WEEPO, fees are 3% (capped at €550 per mission) plus 2%.
• Exact net depends on billed days and options: test it in the simulator.

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