For the first time in the history of the beauty contest, the misses participating in the 2022 edition of Miss France have benefited from an employment contract. One of them reveals the remuneration.
With record audiences for Miss France 2022, up to 8.8 million viewers on Saturday December 11, the beauty contest broadcast on TF1 remains lucrative for the channel and the Miss France company. While the participants did not receive any remuneration until this year.
A situation denounced by a lawsuit by the “Osez le féminisme” movement for discrimination and violation of labor law, which had prompted the organization to review its salary rules.
Also, Alexia Laroche-Joubert, president of the Miss France company, announced last November that the Misses would now have a work contract for their participation in the competition and the show.
We worked on the editorial line for this year’s show. This will have legal and artistic consequences. This year, the 29 Misses will have many employment contracts – Alexia Laroche-Joubert
“A derisory salary”
As revealed The Parisian in its columns this Saturday, January 22, the Misses were thus paid this year with “a derisory salary”. Only the last two days of rehearsals and the ceremony on TF1 have been counted.
“We were paid 84 euros per day, that is 252 euros net in all. The equivalent of minimum wage. It’s really symbolic”, thus indicates one of the candidates on a daily basis. A sum which has been confirmed by the production. Another candidate adds: “as the stage was as slippery as an ice rink, we were at least covered in the event of a ‘accident”.
An amount “symbolic” that Alexia Laroche-Joubert does not consider no extension next year, nor on the amount, nor over time, the latter already representing “a great step forward” in the history of Miss France.
“It does not correspond to our values and the motivations of the candidates would no longer be the same. For that, they can do The people of Marseilles Where Les Ch’tis“, she told the Parisian.
A “real job”
However, the lawyer Jérémie Assous assures in the daily newspaper that the participants could decide to sue the company Miss France for “hidden work” and “non-respect of the working hours”, due to the fact that the candidates are paid for only 3 days.
“Is Miss France a free competition, open to all and linked to chance? No. So it’s a real job, with a relationship of subordination, which requires a regular employment contract over time”, he explains.
Miss France: a “executive” salary
But if the candidates are paid according to the minimum wage, the chosen one benefits froma slightly higher salary. Outraged the benefits of his reign, Miss France 2022, Diane Leyre, for example, earns a senior executive salary, evening approximately 50 000 euros during this year.
A salary that is “not up to what we do” according to the former Miss France Vaimalama Chaves. Without saying precisely how much she received during this year, the latter had mentioned during a program a remuneration “of about 3,000 euros”. A sum that could indeed correspond to a senior executive salary. Added to this are gifts in kind and the cost of housing, around 1,500 euros per month, for one year.