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The monthly CESU and Pajemploi declaration, month after month

One act repeats for the whole life of the contract: the month, declared to the right service by the 5th of the next month — on Pajemploi, from the 25th of the month worked.

Last updated 31 October 2026AdminLanding Editorial

The window of a month

On the CESU, a month is declared at the latest on the 5th of the month that follows it (cesu.urssaf.fr). On Pajemploi, the declaration is made between the 25th of the month and the 5th of the next (urssaf.fr, 16/07/2026).

The current declaration window
Month concerned	Opens on Pajemploi	Due (CESU and Pajemploi)
2026-10	25/10/2026	05/11/2026

The dates above are the ones the shared calendar shows both parties today; they follow the month, not the calendar year.

Which service, for which employee

Service by regime
Employee	Service	Declared
Salarié du particulier employeur (household help, carer, home support)	cesu.urssaf.fr	One declaration per month, per employee
Garde d'enfants at the family's home	pajemploi.urssaf.fr (a child under 6, or under 12 in a single-parent family) or cesu.urssaf.fr	One declaration per month
Assistant maternel agréé	pajemploi.urssaf.fr	One declaration per month AND per child (since 25/01/2026)

What goes into the declaration

Declared figures
Figure	Who knows it	Note
Hours of the month	Both parties	On Pajemploi: the mensualised hours for a monthly salary, otherwise the hours actually worked
Gross pay of the month	From the contract	Hourly rate × hours, or the averaged monthly salary — what the shared record keeps
Days of activity (assistant maternel)	Both parties	Pajemploi asks for them separately
Maintenance and meal allowances	From the contract	Allowances, not pay
Paid-leave days taken	Both parties	Where the care mode calls for it
Net salary	Typed by the employer	Pajemploi asks for the net salary of the month (hours × net hourly rate); the service computes the contributions and issues the payslip

An incomplete month for a home employee — the first or the last month of the contract, or a month with absences that are not paid — is paid on the « real hours » formula of CCN art. 152.1: monthly salary × hours actually worked in the month ÷ hours that should have been worked that month under the contract or the monthly planning.

When a term changes during the month, AdminLanding's monthly summary counts each hour at the rate in force on its day and splits a monthly salary by calendar days, from the date written in the signed amendment.

The same month, on both sides

Most disputes about a home-employment month are not disputes about the rule — they are two people holding different numbers. AdminLanding gives the relationship one shared month: one party records the hours, the other confirms them, and the record keeps who recorded what and when. Recording a month, confirming it and the reminders before the deadline are free for both parties.

Example — fictional figures

The declaration itself is made on the URSSAF service — AdminLanding never declares in your place and never connects to your CESU or Pajemploi account.

The rest of the relationship

The same relationship, from the contract to its end — each page states the rule with its article.

Frequently Asked Questions

The window, the service, the figures and who checks them.

Q.By when must the monthly declaration be made?

The declaration of a month is due by the 5th of the next one, on the CESU as on Pajemploi; Pajemploi opens it on the 25th of the month worked. For 2026-10, it is due on 05/11/2026 (on Pajemploi, open since 25/10/2026). The service then computes the contributions and issues the payslip.

Q.CESU or Pajemploi — which one?

The CESU (cesu.urssaf.fr) covers the salarié du particulier employeur: household help, carer, home support. Pajemploi (pajemploi.urssaf.fr) covers the assistant maternel agréé; a garde d'enfants at the family's home is declared on Pajemploi (a child under 6, or under 12 in a single-parent family) or on the CESU (urssaf.fr, « Pajemploi » page). One relationship, one service — and for an assistant maternel, one declaration per child since 25 January 2026.

Q.What exactly is declared?

The figures the service asks for, which follow from the contract. On Pajemploi: the net salary of the month (hours mensualised — or actually worked for an occasional care — × net hourly rate), the days of activity of an assistant maternel, the paid-leave days where the care mode calls for them, extra hours, and the allowances (maintenance, meals, mileage). The service then computes the contributions and issues the payslip.

Q.What happens if a month is declared late?

The declaration is what lets URSSAF compute the contributions, issue the payslip and secure the employee's social rights (urssaf.fr, Pajemploi page). On the CESU, the deadline matters for the right calculation of the employee's social rights, and a late declaration also means the employer cannot produce the direct-debit notice in time and the yearly tax certificate may be incomplete (cesu.urssaf.fr). On Pajemploi, a declaration made can be corrected within two months.

Q.Who checks the figures?

Both parties can, on the same numbers. The employee knows the hours they worked; the employer knows what was declared. On AdminLanding the month is recorded by one party and confirmed by the other before the deadline, and a difference between the two is flagged as a difference — never settled by the platform.

Q.Does the platform know the net salary?

No. The shared record keeps the hours and the gross only. The net is typed by the employer on the declaration — Pajemploi asks for the net salary of the month — and appears on the payslip the service issues; the platform never computes it.

Q.Who pays for the documents?

The AdminLanding membership opens the documents and covers both parties: when one party is a member, the other party of the relationship generates their own documents and pays nothing. €6 a month, renewed automatically every month; cancel any time from your account, effective at the end of the current monthly period. Recording the relationship, the invitation, the hours of every month, the confirmations and the reminders are free for everyone.

Q.Can the employee use it alone?

Yes. An employee whose employer is not on the platform can take the AdminLanding membership. On the employee's side it opens 14 of the 19 documents: every document that is not one of the employer's own letters — the letters the employee writes (resignation, request to leave early for a new job, request for the end-of-contract documents, reservations on the settlement receipt), the end of the trial period, and the documents naming both parties (the contract, an amendment, the monthly summary, the settlement check, the URSSAF sheet, the preparation sheet of the rupture conventionnelle form, the handover receipt and the notice-waiver agreement — these last two are co-signed and open once the employer has joined the relationship). It never opens the employer's letters (convocation, dismissal letter, withdrawal of the child, the employer's notice waiver). Each document is offered only for the ending it belongs to. An employee invited by an employer who is a member pays nothing.

Q.Does the platform keep what is typed on a document?

No. What a party types for a document — a social-security number, a child's first name, an agrément reference, the facts of a letter — is printed on the PDF and kept nowhere. The shared record holds the terms of the relationship, the category of its ending, its dates and its figures, visible identically to both parties. When an ending is declared for unfitness, it also holds two facts and nothing else about it: whether the unfitness is of occupational origin, and the date of the occupational physician's final opinion — the rules of the convention depend on them.

Q.Does AdminLanding declare to URSSAF in my place?

No. The declaration is made by the employer on cesu.urssaf.fr or pajemploi.urssaf.fr. AdminLanding never connects to those accounts: it keeps the month both parties agree on, and reminds them before the deadline.

Q.Is any of this legal advice?

No. These pages state the published rules of the convention collective IDCC 3239 and of the Code du travail, each with its article, so that both parties apply them. They do not assess a situation, and they are not a substitute for the official sources or a qualified professional.

Sources

Convention collective nationale des particuliers employeurs et de l'emploi à domicile (IDCC 3239) — consolidated text on Légifrance: socle commun, socle spécifique « salarié du particulier employeur » (art. 161 to 163) and socle spécifique « assistant maternel » (art. 119 to 121).
Avenant n° 10 du 5 février 2026 — arrêté d'extension du 4 mai 2026 (JO n° 0108, 8 mai 2026) — minimum wages of annexes 5 (assistant maternel) and 6 (salarié du particulier employeur), applicable from 1 June 2026.
code.travail.gouv.fr — Code du travail numérique (Ministère du Travail): contribution pages for IDCC 3239 and the Code du travail articles cited on this page (L.1221-25, L.1221-26, L.3141-28, L.1237-13, L.1237-14, D.1237-3-1, R.1231-1).
cesu.urssaf.fr / pajemploi.urssaf.fr — URSSAF services through which the particulier employeur declares pay and produces the end-of-contract documents.

Rules verified on 29/09/2026 on Légifrance and code.travail.gouv.fr (CCN 3239 articles read: 44.1.3, 63.2.1, 64.1, 64.2, 64.3, 64.4, 69, 119.1, 119.3, 119.5, 120, 121.1, 131.1, 161.1.1.1, 161.1.3, 161.3, 162.1, 162.4.1, 162.6, 163.1, avenant n° 10 annexes 5/6). Page published 24/08/2026, last updated 29/09/2026.

Important: AdminLanding is a technology platform, not a law firm. We do not practice law, provide legal advice, or act as lawyers (avocats), notaries (notaires), bailiffs (commissaires de justice), or any regulated legal professional as defined by French Law No. 71-1130 of December 31, 1971. This page states the published rules of the convention collective and the Code du travail, for information purposes only — it does not constitute personalized legal advice. Verify your situation with the official sources (code.travail.gouv.fr, Légifrance) or a qualified professional before acting.

Which procedure applies: for a particulier employeur, the dismissal procedure of the convention collective IDCC 3239 applies instead of the Code du travail procedure (CCN art. 161.1.1: the rules are those of the convention; art. 161.1.1.1: entretien préalable from the 4th jour ouvrable counted from the day after the first presentation or the handover of the convocation, then notification by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt from the 4th to the 30th jour ouvrable counted from the day after the entretien; a period that would end on a Saturday, a Sunday or a public holiday runs to the next jour ouvrable). The Code du travail reaches this sector only through the closed list of art. L.7221-2, which does not include the L.1232-2 procedure. An assistant maternel is not dismissed: the employer withdraws the child by a letter sent by registered post or handed over against a receipt, with no preliminary interview (CCN art. 119.1).

Calculate the dates and the amounts — free

Notice end date, end-of-contract indemnity, paid-leave indemnity and the documents hand-over calendar, computed from the rules of the convention collective IDCC 3239 for both parties. No account needed for the calculation.

Open the end-of-contract calculator

Save the dates to your account — reminders for the notice end, the last declaration and the documents hand-over (free). Documents: in the AdminLanding membership, for both parties.

Documents for both parties — in the membership

The AdminLanding membership opens the 19 documents of a relationship — 5 written by the employer, 5 by the employee, 1 by either party, 8 naming both — issued in French with an English companion page and placed in the Vault of both parties. When one party is a member, the other party pays nothing; an employee whose employer is not on the platform can take the membership for their own documents. €6 a month, renewed automatically every month; cancel any time from your account, effective at the end of the current monthly period.

Electronic signature optional — €1.50 per signer, credits shared across all your documents (Rental and Home employment). The calculator, the shared calendar, the reminders and the invitation stay free.