A selection of simulators for your project
Choice of legal structure, executive remuneration, hiring costs, income for self-employed workers, or tax incentives for innovation: explore a selection of public simulators useful at different stages of your project in France.
This page provides a curated list of public simulators designed to support businesses at various stages of their establishment project in France. These tools make it possible to compare different types of company structures, estimate certain costs, and assess specific tax schemes.
Compare legal forms of business structures
Before setting up a company in France, it can be helpful to compare several legal forms based on factors such as the level of social protection for the executive, remuneration arrangements, the tax treatment of dividends, and overall costs.
The official simulators offered by URSSAF enable users to explore the main company structure options and estimate certain start-up costs, helping to inform decisions when choosing a legal structure.
Company choice simulator
This URSSAF simulator helps guide the choice of legal status based on the activity, the project objectives and the situation of the company director (SAS, SARL, EURL, etc.).
Creation cost estimation simulator
This URSSAF simulator allows you to estimate the main costs of creating a new business, including registration costs.
Comparison of company forms
This URSSAF comparator allows you to compare several statuses according to criteria such as income, social security contributions, retirement contributions or associated social protection.
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URSSAF also provides a range of additional simulators on its website—tools and assistants designed to deliver personalised answers to your questions on setting up and running a business.
Estimate executive and employee remuneration
The official simulators offered by URSSAF are useful tools for quickly estimating remuneration costs based on the relevant profile.
They can be used, in particular, to assess the net remuneration of an executive or the budget required to hire an employee. The results provided offer a helpful benchmark, although they remain indicative.
Income simulator for a SAS(U) director
This URSSAF simulator allows you to estimate the net remuneration of a SAS(U) director based on the total amount taken into account by the business.
Income simulator for a director of a single-member limited liability company (EURL)
This URSSAF simulator helps to estimate the net income of a director of a single-member limited liability company (EURL) and the associated level of expenses.
Employee income simulator
This URSSAF simulator allows you to estimate an employee’s net salary from their gross salary, as well as the total cost borne by the employer.
Innovation Tax Incentive Simulator
Featured on the official Entreprendre.Service-Public.fr website, this simulator enables companies to assess certain tax incentive schemes related to innovation that they may be eligible for. It serves as an initial decision-support tool for projects involving research, innovation, or technological development.
At a glance
This page explains A selection of official public simulators useful for companies at different stages of their project in France . It is based on institutional sources such as Urssaf, Mon-entreprise.urssaf.fr, Entreprendre.Service-Public.fr and Business France . It presents information covering from choosing a legal structure, to estimating start-up costs, to determining the remuneration of executives and employees, as well as accessing innovation tax incentives. It uses the example of a company using public simulators to compare legal structures, estimate its costs, and identify the tax schemes available for its project in France.