SD Worx acquires French payroll provider Socialea and strengthens presence in French SME market
9 July 2025

The leading European HR solutions provider SD Worx has acquired Socialea, a French payroll company with a strong foothold in the French SME market. With this acquisition, SD Worx continues its sustainable growth strategy and enters the domestic French SME segment, a market with promising growth potential.
Founded in 2007, Socialea has built a solid reputation in managed payroll services for small and medium-sized enterprises. The company, headquartered in Nantes and with additional offices in Saint-Nazaire and Rennes, reported a revenue of EUR 3.3 million in 2024, (+22% versus 2023).
Socialea's core business lies in managed payroll services and legal advisory services. It generates a substantial part of its business through accounting firms, a promising area SD Worx wants to further develop.
Serving a wider range of customers
About Socialea
Founded in 2007, Socialea has consolidated its position as an expert in social and payroll management year on year. Backed by a wealth of experience, their team of payroll managers and labour law specialists are at the customer’s side to optimise their payroll and help them to manage their staff. A human-scale structure, Socialea is at the heart of the social life of companies with from 1 to 1,500 employees, as well as with chartered accountants. Socialea offers complete payroll outsourcing services or the provision of MySilae. Socialea is a recognised player in its sector for its reliability, rigour and the quality of its customer relations.
About SD Worx
SD Worx believes that success starts with people. A thriving workforce doesn’t just build a thriving company, it also contributes to society. Together with its customers, SD Worx sparks successful HR that benefits work, life and society.
As the trusted leading European HR and payroll solutions provider for all organisations and workers, SD Worx delivers software, services and expertise across payroll & reward, human capital management and workforce management. SD Worx has deep roots across Europe and has been leading the way for eight decades together with its customers, employers big and small, to spark employee engagement that ignites success at the heart of their business.
About 95,000 small and large organisations across Europe place their trust in SD Worx. The almost 10,000 colleagues operate in 27 countries. SD Worx calculates the salaries of approximately 6 million employees and ranks among the top five worldwide. It achieved a revenue of EUR 1.180 billion in 2024.
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