Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court (STF) has decided by majority vote to increase the salaries of Justices (themselves) and other Court employees by 18% starting in 2023. The proposal is to raise the salary of Supreme Court judges from R$39,200 to R$46,300 (US$9,000).
That may not sound like much to your U.S. and European ears, but it’s a fortune in Brazil. As the overview below from PageGroup shows, Justices are in the absolute highest salary category of all salary earners in Brazil. And that was true even before the 18% salary increase.
The National Congress must still consider the proposal, which can approve or reject it.
Under the project, the increase will be gradual, in four installments to be paid between April 2023 and July of the following year. Read the calendar:
1st installment – April 2023;
2nd tranche – August 2023;
3rd installment – January 2024;
4th tranche – July 2024.
The text proposes to reallocate the spending of the judiciary itself to allow for the adjustment. This would mean no new transfers would be needed.
The vote will take place by 3 p.m. in the 2nd administrative session of 2022 via the internal virtual system. The following items will also be voted on
STF 2023 Budget Proposal:
- Submission to the College of the representative associations’ proposal for the recomposition of judges’ salaries;
- Submission of the representative associations’ proposal to adjust the salaries of civil servants to the College.
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
Since January, federal civil servants have been demanding compensation for the inflation accumulated during the conservative government of President Jair Bolsonaro, which amounts to 19.99%.
In 2020, Bolsonaro approved a project to pay R$60 (US$12) billion to states for the pandemic period but vetoed the part that provided salary adjustments for civil servants.
The federal government spent R$157.5 billion in the first half of this year to pay personnel and social security contributions. This figure represents a decrease of 12.2% compared to the previous year when inflation was considered.
The executive branch has considered a 5% increase for all federal employees. However, it has decided not to grant the adjustment in 2022.
PODERDATA
The PoderData survey, conducted April 24-26, 2022, found that 46% of the Brazilian population opposes an adjustment in civil servants’ salaries this year. Those in favor amount to 40%, while 14% could not give an answer.
OCCUPATIONS WITH THE HIGHEST SALARIES IN BRAZIL IN 2022
A survey conducted by PageGroup found that the occupations with the highest salaries in Brazil are in the following categories: Agribusiness, Digital, Engineering, Manufacturing and Logistics, Finance, Legal, Disability, Health, Information Technology, Trade and Marketing, Human Resources, Operations, and Sales.
AGRIBUSINESS
Software Developer – AgroTechs
R$7,000 to R$15,000 + variable compensation.
Business Development Manager
R$15,000 to R$25,000 + variable compensation.
DIGITAL
Media and performance coordinator
R$8,000 to R$12,000
SEO Specialist
R$7,000 to R$10,000
Business Intelligence Analyst
R$4,000 to R$11,000
ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING, AND LOGISTICS
Supply Manager
R$10,000 to R$20,000
Production and maintenance manager
R$12,000 to R$20,000
Logistics Manager
R$12,000 to R$22,000
FINANCE MANAGER
Product Manager
R$10,000 to R$20,000 + variable
Manager (Head) Credit & Collection
R$20,000 to R$25,000 + variable
Accounting analyst
R$ 7,500 to R$ 9,000
Financial planning analyst
R$8,000 to R$9,000
LEGAL ANALYST
Legal manager
R$ 20,000 to R$ 30,000
PCD – PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Talent acquisition – PCD
R$ 6,000 to R$ 7.500
HEALTH
Director of hospital operations
R$ 30,000 to R$ 45,000
Commercial Director – Medical Devices
R$ 30,000 to R$ 45,000+ 4 salaries
CEO – Hospitals
R$40,000 to R$60,000
Occupational physician-coordinator
R$ 8,000 to R$ 10,0000 for 15 hours per week
Pharmacovigilance analyst
R$ 5,300 to R$ 7,000
IT – INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
PMO/Project Manager
R$ 12,000 to R$ 20,000
BI/Data Analyst
R$ 4.500 to R$12,000
Software Test Analyst
R$4.500 to R$12,000
Developer/Programmer
R$ 4,000 to R$ 13,000
Data and Analytics Manager
R$ 22,000 to R $35,000
Software development manager
R$ 20,000 to R$ 35,000
FrontEnd Developer
R$ 13,000 to R$ 17,000
Mobile Developer
R$ 6,000 to R$ 8,000 for junior level
R$ 9,000 to R$ 12,000 for mdeium level developers
R$ 12,000 to R$ 18,000 for senior level managers
Up to R$ 25,000 for specialists
COMMERCIAL AND MARKETING
Commercial consultant
R$ 2,500 to R$ 8,000
Account manager
R$ 3,500 to R$ 10,000
Marketing Analyst
R$ 3,000 to R$ 9,000
Digital marketing analyst
R$ 6,000 to R$12,000
CMO (Chief Marketing Officer)
R$ 30,000 to R$40,000
Product marketing manager
R$ 15,000 to R$ 30,000
HEAD OF HUMAN RESOURCES
Recruiter
R$ 3,000 to R$ 12,000
Compensation and benefits analyst
R$ 6,500 to R$ 12,000
HR Manager Business Partner
R$ 20,000 to R$ 26,000 – with package and bonus of 3 to 4 salaries
Talent Acquisition Manager
R$ 5,000 to R$ 25,000
OPERATIONS
Customer Service Analyst
R$4,000 to R$6,500
SALES
Sales Manager – Digital Media Technologies
R$ 16,000 to R$30,000 + commissions.
According to PageGroup, recovery and growth is expected after the pandemic. Thus, the expansion of companies in online business should continue to be among the occupations with the highest salaries in Brazil in 2022.
LOWEST AND HIGHEST SALARIES IN BRAZIL IN 2021
Here are the 100 positions with the highest salaries in Brazil in 2021:
- Chief Credit Officer (except housing loans): R$ 37.134,38
- Director of market risk: R$ 34,718.47
- Director of Banking Products: R$ 34.385,11
- Dance theater director: R$ 30,219.01
- Director of IT services: R$28,050.65
- Director of loan rehabilitation in financial intermediation: R$26,117.49
- Human Resources Officer: R$25,790.85
- Director of research and development (R&D): R$24,399.44
- Commercial director: R$21,600.47
- Director of production and operations in manufacturing, mineral extraction, and utilities: R$21,188.14
- Director of supply R$21,159.74
- Airport airline manager: R$21,068.59
- Marketing director: R$20,444.27
- Commercial director in financial intermediation: R$20,356.63
- Labor Relations Director: R$ 20.114,00
- Coroner: R$19,090.93
- Director of capital markets: R$18,891.89
- Director of foreign exchange and foreign trade: R$17,502.88
- Information technology security manager: R$16,655.05
- Director of a television program: R$16,334.24
- Manager of airport administration: R$16,167.37
- Critical care physician: R$15,327.76
- Finance director: R$14,935.53
- Director of systems development: R$14,626.86
- Director of compliance: R$14,394.72
- Director of strategic planning: R$13,769.15
- Family health strategy physician: R$13,764.32
- Director of health services: R$13,245.10
- Medical nutrologist: R$13,222.67
- Director of production and operation in a livestock enterprise: R$13.201,19
- Director of real estate credit: R$13,193.88
- Mining engineer (open pit) R$13,042.17
- Director of warehouse services: R$12,899.62
- Chemical engineer (utilities and environment) R$ 12,813.18
- Mining Engineer (Underground Mining): R$ 12.629,69
- Research and development (R&D) manager: R$12,386.55
- Information technology production manager: R$12,386.36
- Civil engineer (bridges and viaducts): R$ 12.347,38
- Mining Engineer (Project): R$ 11.988,39
- Professor of French literature: R$ 11,927.02
- Mining engineer (planning): R$ 11.865,09
- Researcher in economics: R$ 11,862.61
- Family doctor and community physician: R$ 11,853.40
- Director of production and operations in a fishing company: R$11.826,12
- Manager of banking products: R$ 11.797,14
- Actor: R$11,739.64
- Naval architect: R$11,578.88
- Information technology solutions architect: R$ 11.335,63
- Chemical engineer (petroleum and rubber): R$ 11.321,21
- Key Account Manager (Corporate): R$ 11.298,44
- Operational Safety Manager (Civil Aviation): R$11.273,93
- Mining engineer: R$11,239.42
- Nuclear medicine physician: R$11,214.97
- Technologist in the oil and gas industry: R$11,211.35
- Information technology project manager: R$ 11,178.89
- Telecommunications engineer R$ 11,140.45
- Aeronautical engineer: R$ 11,129.85
- General manager of companies and organizations (non-public interest): R$ 11.127,62
- Computer operating systems engineer: R$ 11,085.82
- Clinical pathologist / laboratory medicine: R$ 11,069.22
- Mining Engineer (Procedures): R$ 11.017,57
- Astronomer: R$ 10,986.35
- Mechanical engineer (nuclear energy): R$ 10.985,19
- Administrative and financial director: R$ 10,978.37
- Civil Engineer (Tunnels): R$ 10.905,77
- Commercial Director (Wholesale and Retail): R$10.761,85
- Mining engineer (processing): R$10.748,65
- Program Director: R$10,712.56
Civil Engineer (Geotechnical): R$10.681,13 - Administrative Director: R$10,596.49
- Doctor of traffic medicine: R$10,590.21
- Director of production and operation in a forestry company: R$10.551,99
- Network manager: R$10,502.58
- Materials engineer: R$10,489.06
- Public prosecutor: R$10,474.79
- Director of newsroom: R$10,453.04
- Director of public works and civil engineering R$10,427.95
- Physicist (optical): R$ 10.398,75
- Creative director: R$10,330.89
- Applied mathematician: R$10,309.62
- Basic research scientist: R$10,300.93
- Computational applications engineer: R$ 10.280,48
- Account Director (Advertising): R$ 10.186,52
- General practitioner: R$10,043.18
- Interventional radiologist: R$ 9,993.15
- Mining Engineer (Mineral Research): R$ 9.953,91
- Chief officer of merchant marine machinery: R$ 9,903.71
- Civil Engineer (Railroads and Metros): R$ 9.817,99
- Physicist (nuclear power and reactors): R$ 9.777,36
- Commander of the merchant navy: R$9,760.38
- Logistics engineer: R$9,745.20
- Cinema director: R$9,645.26
- Metallurgical engineer: R$9,603.63
- Investor relations professional: R$9,531.18
- Engineering geologist: R$ 9,466.24
- Civil Engineer (Hydrology): R$9.361,64
- Transportation Services Director: R$9,355.00
- Mathematician: R$9,290.66
- Medical geneticist: R$9,286.36
- Communications Manager: R$9,268.13
- Here are the 100 jobs with the lowest salaries in 2021:
- Acupuncturist Psychologist: R$758.51
- Party announcer: R$773.44
- Parking valet: R$914.56
- Spanish literature teacher: R$918.42
- Smoker: R$ 1,003.27
- Charger (aircraft): R$ 1.016,21
- Doula: R$ 1,069.33
- Carcinology technician: R$ 1,094.68
- Esoteric: R$ 1,119.16
- Crochet artisan: R$ 1,148.77
- Palm grower: R$ 1,149.44
- Hand cigarette maker: R$ 1,157.87
- Bacaba exploitation worker: R$ 1,162.77
- Chestnut exploitation worker: R$ 1,165.12
- Canola cultivation worker: R$ 1,165.70
- Tobacco growers: R$ 1,167.07
- Creeping fruit growers: R$ 1,168.47
- Crab farmer: R$ 1,174.73
- Feed producer R$ 1,175.81
- Grower of bubalines (milk) R$ 1,176.18
- Official of the Registry of Deeds and Documents R$ 1,179.08
- Sugar cane producer: R$ 1,179.66
- Cocoa producer: R$ 1,180.60
- Altar boy: R$ 1,182.88
- Flax grower: R$ 1,183.95
- Baiana de Acarajé: R$ 1,185.79
- Active and open-minded telemarketer: R$ 1,188.67
- Extraction worker for aromatic, medicinal and toxic substances in general: R$ 1,195.40Basket weaver: R$ 1,195.93
- Worker in the cultivation of fruit trees: R$ 1,196.86
- Farrier for animals: R$ 1,198.67
- Craftsman with recyclable material: R$ 1,201.61
- Indigenous health agent: R$ 1,201.99
- Malva Exploration (Paina) worker: R$1,206.35
- Sex worker: R$1,208.50
- Andiroba Exploration worker: R$1,211.10
- Salt mill: R$1,212.62
- Guarana culture worker: R$1,213.14
- Artisanal lobster fisherman: R$1,215.77
- Local sanitation officer: R$1,226.23
- Ticket seller (subway, railroad and similar stations) R$1,228.27
- Hat maker (straw hats): R$ 1.228,27
- Chiropodists: R$ 1,244.06
- Cocoa cultivation worker: R$ 1,248.85
- Petroleum coke reactor operator: R$ 1,251.10
- Active telemarketing worker: R$ 1,252.04
- Beach coconut research worker: R$ 1,255.56
- Pleasure service card holder: R$ 1,255.87
- Workers using grass roots for the production of aromatic, medicinal and toxic substances: R$ 1,256.02
- Refiner of salt: R$ 1,256.98
- Journalist (kiosk) R$ 1,263.89