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Although many studies have examined the ability of socio-occupational classification to objectify social class divisions, there are very few that study their correspondence with the everyday categorisations used by French people in their thinking about society. Based on a “card game” inspired by the survey by Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot in the early 1980s, this article describes everyday class rankings in order to assess their degree of convergence with official classifications, and particularly with socio-economic classification. Conducted with a sample of 547 persons, our survey shows the presence of shared rationales and typical variations within what are assumed to be the highly differentiated classifications used by people. In fact the majority of these categorisations rely on occupational criteria that are ordered according to a hierarchical rationale (by distinguishing between employed and self-employed, and then according to an internal classification amongst the employed), or in terms of occupation (by work and occupational sector), and they confirm a form of internalization of official divisions within the social world.