Driver income by region in France: what public data actually shows
There is no public statistic on drivers’ income region by region, so this page shows what really varies, backed by official figures.
Checked by Radif Partners · Editorial policy · Method and sources
We have found no reliable public source giving taxi or VTC drivers’ income by French region, so this page publishes no regional “average salary”. It relies on what is measured. Fuel first: according to the official price feed on prix-carburants.gouv.fr, read from 1 to 4 October 2026, a litre of E10 petrol averages from €2.126 (Hauts-de-France) to €2.201 (Grand Est), a gap of about €17 a month for 4,000 km at 5.5 L/100 km. Then the taxi licence, which service-public puts at around €190,000 in Paris and €250,000 in Nice. By contrast, minimum pay for employed drivers is national: the Smic (minimum wage), the coach driver scale and the ambulance scale. The rest, average fare and rides per hour, depends on your area, and the calculator lets you enter it.
Your fuel bill, region by region
Fuel per month
€471
| Average price recorded | €2.142/L |
| Extra cost versus the cheapest region | €4 |
| Estimated net for the example VTC profile | €1,818 |
Averages of stations updated from 1 to 4 October 2026. Example profile: 90 rides at €20 a week, 25% commission, micro-enterprise.
Why no regional average income is shown
The rankings of “what a VTC earns in each region” that circulate online cite no verifiable public source: platform surveys, training-centre estimates, job ads. A self-employed driver’s income is not a salary, and the public statistics we consulted do not publish it by region for taxis and VTCs. Rather than invent an average, this page shows which components really vary between regions and which do not, then lets the calculator work it out from your local assumptions.
Fuel, region by region
The Ministry of the Economy publishes the prices reported by every station in real time (prix-carburants.gouv.fr feed). We took the simple average of stations in each region updated from 1 to 4 October 2026. The table applies those prices to an example: 4,000 km a month at 5.5 litres per 100 km.
| Region | Diesel (€/L) | Petrol E10 (€/L) | E10 fuel per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | 2.380 | 2.188 | €481 |
| Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | 2.386 | 2.187 | €481 |
| Bretagne | 2.337 | 2.130 | €469 |
| Centre-Val de Loire | 2.363 | 2.161 | €475 |
| Corse | 2.342 | 2.185 | €481 |
| Grand Est | 2.415 | 2.201 | €484 |
| Hauts-de-France | 2.354 | 2.126 | €468 |
| Île-de-France | 2.355 | 2.142 | €471 |
| Normandie | 2.352 | 2.144 | €472 |
| Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 2.363 | 2.152 | €473 |
| Occitanie | 2.370 | 2.181 | €480 |
| Pays de la Loire | 2.356 | 2.149 | €473 |
| Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur | 2.362 | 2.166 | €477 |
The gap between the cheapest and dearest region comes to about €17 a month for E10 and €17 for diesel in this example. Applied to the calculator’s example profile, a platform VTC driver on the micro-enterprise scheme, it moves estimated net income from €1,805 to €1,821 a month. A real difference, but modest beside what average fare, commission or hours worked can change. The calculator at the top of the page redoes the sum with your region, fuel, mileage and consumption.
The taxi licence: the biggest gap
For a taxi, the largest geographical difference is the licence price. A licence (autorisation de stationnement) issued free since 1 October 2014 cannot be sold; older ones change hands at a free price. Service-public, in a page checked on 13 July 2026, puts those prices between €30,000 and €300,000, with orders of magnitude of about €190,000 in Paris and €250,000 in Nice, and rent around €3,500 a month in Paris. For a taxi driver paying rent or a loan, that cost weighs on income far more than any fuel difference. The taxi licence page compares buying with renting.
What stays the same across regions
- Contributions and VAT: Urssaf rates, micro-enterprise thresholds and the 10 % VAT on passenger transport are national.
- The Smic: €12.31 gross an hour in 2026 according to service-public, the same across mainland France.
- Employee pay scales: the ambulance and coach driver scales apply sector-wide with no regional variant. See ambulance pay and bus driver pay.
- Platform guarantees: the agreements for platform VTC drivers set a minimum of €9 net per ride, with no regional distinction.
- Regulated entry fees: exam, card and register cost the same everywhere.
What changes, and only you know
Average fare, rides per hour, time lost in traffic, the share of airport and station work, tourist seasons: these make up most of the gap between a large city and a mid-sized town. No official source publishes them by region, but you can measure them over a few weeks of work, or estimate them from a local driver’s figures. Vehicle rental and insurance also vary by place, so get your own quotes.
The net income calculator takes all of these assumptions and returns monthly and hourly net income using the official 2026 rates. The VTC driver earnings and taxi driver pay pages show how to read the result. They are estimates built on your assumptions, never promises of income.
Method and updates
Fuel prices are simple averages, not weighted by volume sold, of stations that updated their prices between 1 and 4 October 2026: 13 mainland regions; the overseas territories are not in the feed we used. For Corsica, the petrol column uses SP95. Prices change weekly, and the page will be refreshed whenever the site’s parameters are reviewed. If a public source of regional driver income appears, it will replace the assumptions part of this page.