Where do you stand on your 507 hours? The back-to-season check-list

Late August, the calendar reopens, and the same question hums quietly under the first rehearsals: will I make my hours this year? The good news is that this question can be worked like a score. Not all at once, not in the panic of a November evening: now, calmly, while everything can still be caught up.

The benchmark: 507 hours over the 12 months before your end of contract

To open or renew your rights under the French intermittent scheme, you must show at least 507 hours of work covered by annex 8 (technicians) or annex 10 (performers), over the 12 months preceding your last end of contract. This is not a calendar year: the reference period slides with you and resets at each end of contract. That is why two colleagues with the same season can be in very different situations.

What counts

A performer’s cachet conventionally counts as 12 hours.
Technician hours count as real hours, as declared by the employer.
Some teaching and training hours can enter the tally, under conditions and within precise limits.
Hours worked abroad follow rules of their own: depending on the country and on how you were declared, they count in full, partially, or not at all.

What goes missing most often

When the total looks too low, it is almost never because you worked too little. It is almost always because a piece is missing:

An employer certificate that never arrived. Your hours only exist for France Travail once the employer has declared them. One late declaration, and a whole month seems to vanish.
Summer dates abroad left hanging. A festival in Germany or Italy does not find its way into your tally on its own: it takes the right declaration and, often, the right form.
Forgotten assimilated periods. Training, teaching within certain frameworks: hours that count, but that nobody will claim on your behalf.

Taking stock, without drowning in it

The start-of-season check crosses four pieces of information: your last end of contract, your contracts over the last 12 months, their declarations, and the status of your dates abroad. Each has its traps, and it is their crossing that says where you really stand; doing it by hand, every month, is exactly the kind of chore that ends up skipped. That crossing is what Continuo Tutti keeps up to date for you, and you can estimate it in three minutes, without creating an account and without saving anything.

France Travail is the authority

Continuo Tutti helps you understand where you stand and prepare your steps. It does not decide your eligibility and promises no definitive figure. For your rights, France Travail remains the only reference.

Our sources

Every rule we use is dated and sourced, and you can verify them at any time on our transparency page.