Nov 27, 2025
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RESFBlILAWA.org and Movimento Pesoa à trama àin frateter show symmetry in public service.Read Poder360.
Brazil has already done the words of Ultra-high-quality pays, with 8% of 8%
Research by República.org and Onigiono Pessoa and Foremeo shows asymmetry in public work, especially in justice;income above dog months r $ 20 billion in 1 year
Pestoas of Film Artrete ACúrica.org study published this year (November 26, 2025) shows Brazil in some 10 countries with similar social characteristics.
The document identified at least 53,488 Brazilian public workers who get more than the constitutional limit (R $ 46,366.19) in a sample of 4 million salaries analyzed.Argentina's second in this list, with around 27,000 earning more than the Republic's salary.
The numbers in the infographic above are always approximate and may vary depending on the source.This is because there is no such large database to perform a 100% accurate analysis.In this case, the big picture is important.
Many countries do not have a Brazilian-style salary cap, but there are commissions and other ways to control income.The metric chosen by the study to define a salary as “super” was to compare the income of public servants with that of the President of the Republic or the Prime Minister.Here is the full text (PDF - 8 MB).
The cost of employees
These key salaries in Brazil are R $ 20 billion from 2024 to July 2025.It primarily focuses on judges.
According to the study, 79.9% of Brazilian judges earn more than the limit.That is, they earn on average more than R$46,366.19 per month.The rate is 70.4% among members of the public ministry and 59.4% among those working in the AGU (General Attorney's Office).
The payment is the highest, according to the survey, and according to the survey, 75% of the judges of the PREPARED SOUTHERN UNDERSTANDING THE CORRECTIONS OF THE SILENCE OF THE SOUTHERN will earn R $ 685,000.Data from the CNJ (National Council of National Justice) show that there are 18,987 active judges in Brazil.
"About 11,000 Brazilian judges earned more than US$400,000 (Purchasing Power Parity - PPP) between August 2024 and July 2025, which is more than the compensation paid to any judge in 7 of the 10 countries studied," the study said.
For Jessika Moreira, executive director of the Movimento Pessoa à Frente, the increase in unrestricted spending in Brazil is having a "damaging effect on the legitimacy of the state" with an increase in "wage inequality" in the public service.
“There is competition to get salaries compared to other companies.
Measures against overpayment
People's Forward Movement shows 9 steps to a big salary:
- New account - Corresponding document announcing the achieved rewards, fees and other benefits;
- Classifications - for the amount of compensation allowed by the legal system to exceed their ceilings, it is important that the classification meets 3 basic criteria:
- must be compensatory in nature, whereby the official is reimbursed for the costs incurred in the performance of the public service;
- must be of an occasional and transitory nature, which does not need to be included every month, must be limited in time and must be analyzed on a case-by-case basis;
- It must be expressly established by law and cannot be created by administrative law.
- taxation - correct application of the incidence of personal income tax, reduction of tax evasion and increase in federal income;
- Transparency – establishing sound active and passive management and transparency mechanisms regarding public service remuneration;
- Legislation - Enacting legislation for the establishment and administration of any additional salary, whether remuneration or compensation, begins with a general law approved by the National Congress;
- description of funds - return of funds assigned to illegal compensation and automatic conversion into salary;
- cascading effect - a ban on automatic remuneration of entities combining subsidies from public entities, freezing the current cascading effect;
– Penalty – the authorization to pay compensation amounts in excess of the ceiling, without express legal support, is classified as administrative dishonesty.
- retroactive payments - creating a deterrent mechanism with reasonable and transparent criteria for the payment of retroactive funds, including a deadline, in order to avoid long-term retroactive payments.
As indicated, one of the groups concerned with high salaries is the Judge.Last year, for example, judges received a monthly salary of more than R $ 100,000 for 63,816.
