BRAZIL / SALARY

SALARY SURVEYS

822

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AVERAGE SALARY / YEAR

MOST TYPICAL SALARY / YEAR

Gross income

Net (after tax)

5.15 BRL = 1 USD

284,248 BRL

$55,167 USD

Sao Paulo

326,576 BRL

164,880 BRL

$32,000 USD

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Average Salary / Brazil

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Average salary in Brazil is 284,248 BRL per year. The most typical earning is 164,880 BRL. All data are based on 822 salary surveys. Salaries are different between men and women. Men receive an average salary of 290,085 BRL. Women receive a salary of 224,133 BRL.

The most paid careers are Health Care & Medical with average income 605,934 BRL and Management & Business with income 425,081 BRL.

Based on education, the highest salaries receive people with Masters Degree with salary of 395,197 BRL. The second most paid education level is Doctorate Degree with salary of 392,620 BRL.

Different experiences affect earning as well. People with 20+ Years of experience receive salary of 436,932 BRL. Employees with 16-20 Years of experience receive 429,718 BRL.

Levels / Brazil (Gross BRL)

Salary Levels (BRL) per Year	Surveys	[%]
15,500 BRL - 25,799 BRL	0	n/a
25,800 BRL - 51,499 BRL	8	100% 0.97%
51,500 BRL - 77,299 BRL	56	99.03% 6.81%
77,300 BRL - 102,999 BRL	62	92.21% 7.54%
103,100 BRL - 128,799 BRL	57	84.67% 6.93%
128,800 BRL - 154,599 BRL	81	77.74% 9.85%
THE MOST TYPICAL SALARY
154,600 BRL - 180,299 BRL	84	67.88% 10.22%
180,300 BRL - 206,099 BRL	59	57.66% 7.18%
206,100 BRL - 231,899 BRL	53	50.49% 6.45%
231,900 BRL - 257,599 BRL	40	44.04% 4.87%
257,600 BRL - 283,399 BRL	42	39.17% 5.11%
283,400 BRL - 309,099 BRL	37	34.06% 4.5%
309,200 BRL - 334,899 BRL	26	29.56% 3.16%
334,900 BRL - 360,699 BRL	23	26.4% 2.8%
360,700 BRL - 386,399 BRL	14	23.6% 1.7%
386,400 BRL - 412,199 BRL	11	21.9% 1.34%
412,200 BRL - 437,999 BRL	14	20.56% 1.7%
438,000 BRL - 463,699 BRL	17	18.86% 2.07%
463,700 BRL - 489,499 BRL	13	16.79% 1.58%
489,500 BRL - 515,199 BRL	9	15.21% 1.09%
515,300 BRL - 540,999 BRL	8	14.11% 0.97%
541,000 BRL - 566,799 BRL	13	13.14% 1.58%
566,800 BRL - 592,499 BRL	5	11.56% 0.61%
592,500 BRL - 618,299 BRL	15	10.95% 1.82%
618,300 BRL - 644,099 BRL	13	9.12% 1.58%
644,100 BRL - 669,799 BRL	9	7.54% 1.09%
669,800 BRL - 695,599 BRL	5	6.45% 0.61%
695,600 BRL - 721,299 BRL	6	5.84% 0.73%
721,400 BRL - 747,099 BRL	5	5.11% 0.61%
747,100 BRL - 772,899 BRL	1	4.5% 0.12%
HIGH SALARIES
772,900 BRL - 824,399 BRL	9	4.38% 1.09%
824,400 BRL - 875,899 BRL	6	3.28% 0.73%
875,900 BRL - 927,399 BRL	2	2.55% 0.24%
927,500 BRL - 978,999 BRL	3	2.31% 0.36%
979,000 BRL - 1,030,499 BRL	1	1.95% 0.12%
1,030,500 BRL - 1,081,999 BRL	3	1.82% 0.36%
1,082,000 BRL - 1,133,499 BRL	1	1.46% 0.12%
1,133,600 BRL - 1,185,099 BRL	3	1.34% 0.36%
1,185,100 BRL - 1,236,599 BRL	1	0.97% 0.12%
1,236,600 BRL - 1,288,099 BRL	0	n/a
1,288,100 BRL - 1,803,399 BRL	7	0.85% 0.85%

Gender / Brazil (Gross BRL)

#		Surveys		AVERAGE SALARY / YEAR
1	Men	647	290,085 BRL
2	Women	120	224,133 BRL

Education / Brazil (Gross BRL)

#		Surveys
1	Masters Degree	240	395,197 BRL
2	Doctorate Degree	54	392,620 BRL
3	Bachelors Degree	435	228,771 BRL
4	Some College	52	216,405 BRL
5	High School	37	171,063 BRL
6	Bellow H. School	4	163,849 BRL

Experience / Brazil (Gross BRL)

#		Surveys
1	20+ Years	83	436,932 BRL
2	16-20 Years	96	429,718 BRL
3	12-16 Years	112	368,919 BRL
4	8-12 Years	173	272,567 BRL
5	4-8 Years	192	214,344 BRL
6	2-4 Years	92	165,910 BRL
7	1-2 Years	40	159,212 BRL
8	0-1 Year	34	143,754 BRL

Age / Brazil (Gross BRL)

#		Surveys
1	56-60	7	634,788 BRL
2	51-55	20	525,555 BRL
3	66-70	1	477,637 BRL
4	61-65	4	473,515 BRL
5	46-50	46	424,051 BRL
6	41-45	84	363,766 BRL
7	36-40	144	348,309 BRL
8	n/a	55	346,248 BRL
9	31-35	215	260,716 BRL
10	26-30	181	174,669 BRL
11	21-25	57	147,361 BRL
12	14-20	8	117,477 BRL

Work Type / Brazil (Gross BRL)

#		Surveys
1	Permanent	690	297,299 BRL
2	Self Employed	27	234,954 BRL
3	Contract	90	218,981 BRL
4	Part Time	15	163,849 BRL

Cities / Brazil (Gross BRL)

#		Surveys
1	Salvador	2	656,429 BRL
2	Maceió	3	513,704 BRL
3	Campo Grande	3	479,182 BRL
4	Ribeirao Preto	2	448,783 BRL
5	Jaboatao dos Guararapes	1	436,932 BRL
6	Guarulhos	7	417,868 BRL
7	Sao Paulo	347	326,668 BRL
8	Uberlândia	4	313,787 BRL
9	Rio de Janeiro	131	300,390 BRL
10	Goiânia	4	297,299 BRL
11	Sao José dos Campos	13	287,509 BRL
12	Manaus	3	272,567 BRL
13	Sao Luís	1	272,567 BRL
14	Porto Alegre	37	262,262 BRL
15	Campinas	37	257,109 BRL
16	--Other--	26	251,442 BRL
17	Brasília	35	235,984 BRL
18	Sao Bernardo do Campo	10	230,832 BRL
19	Cuiabá	3	228,255 BRL
20	Belo Horizonte	44	218,981 BRL
21	Natal	4	214,344 BRL
22	Curitiba	53	187,035 BRL
23	Santo André	3	176,215 BRL
24	Ananindeua	1	165,395 BRL
25	Fortaleza	10	164,880 BRL
26	Belém	8	162,819 BRL
27	Sorocaba	6	156,636 BRL
28	Sao Gonçalo	2	146,846 BRL
29	Aracaju	1	133,449 BRL
30	Recife	14	131,904 BRL
31	Londrina	5	128,812 BRL
32	Joao Pessoa	2	120,053 BRL

Career Groups / Brazil (Gross BRL)

#		Surveys
1	Health Care & Medical	15	605,934 BRL
2	Management & Business	130	425,081 BRL
3	Finance & Banking	31	407,563 BRL
4	Engineers & Technicians V	13	386,953 BRL
5	Insurance	4	373,041 BRL
6	Public Sector	13	360,160 BRL
7	Marketing, Sales, Purchase	49	353,977 BRL
8	Security & Fireguard	2	351,916 BRL
9	Health Care & Medical II	8	344,702 BRL
10	Automobile	5	341,095 BRL
11	Sports & Recreation	3	324,607 BRL
12	Engineers & Technicians III	8	322,031 BRL
13	Human Resources	33	312,241 BRL
14	Construction & Labor Workers	4	301,421 BRL
15	Manufacturing & Labor Workers	4	300,906 BRL
16	Military	3	258,140 BRL
17	Accounting & Administration	34	256,594 BRL
18	Aviation & Shipping	7	252,987 BRL
19	Engineers & Technicians	99	251,442 BRL
20	Arts, Culture, Performance	6	244,743 BRL
21	Salesmen & Saleswomen	16	238,045 BRL
22	Customer Services	14	230,832 BRL
23	Engineers & Technicians IV	6	228,771 BRL
24	Properties & Real Estates	3	216,405 BRL
25	IT & Programming II	70	209,191 BRL
26	Law	15	204,554 BRL
27	Engineers & Technicians II	3	203,523 BRL
28	Logistics, Road, Railway	11	198,371 BRL
29	IT & Programming	150	197,340 BRL
30	Architect Constructions	8	176,215 BRL
31	Media	9	172,093 BRL
32	Education & University	25	163,849 BRL
33	Organization & Coordination	9	153,029 BRL
34	Making Design	4	146,331 BRL
35	Hotels & Tourism	5	119,022 BRL
36	Agriculture & Fishing	2	119,022 BRL
37	Restaurants, Inns, Pubs	1	75,226 BRL

Careers / Brazil (Gross BRL)

#		Surveys
1	Doctor Specialist	7	742,475 BRL
2	Director	19	671,371 BRL
3	General Manager	17	589,961 BRL
4	Business Development Manager	6	549,772 BRL
5	Human Resources Manager	13	525,040 BRL
6	Engineering Manager	12	442,600 BRL
7	Account Manager	4	440,539 BRL
8	Other Engineer Career	11	437,962 BRL
9	Manager	22	435,901 BRL
10	Plant Manager	6	425,596 BRL
11	Other Public Sector Career	8	409,624 BRL
12	Operations Manager	4	402,925 BRL
13	Marketing Manager	12	368,404 BRL
14	Sales Manager	7	364,797 BRL
15	Finance Manager	4	362,221 BRL
16	Business Manager	5	351,400 BRL
17	IT Manager	19	334,397 BRL
18	Research Engineer	5	299,360 BRL
19	Audit Manager	8	296,268 BRL
20	Other Sales Career	8	294,723 BRL
21	Doctor	5	280,296 BRL
22	Product Manager	4	277,204 BRL
23	SAP Consulting	7	276,689 BRL
24	Project Manager	10	273,597 BRL
25	IT Coordinator	4	271,536 BRL
26	Customer Service Manager	4	240,621 BRL
27	IT Project Manager	17	234,438 BRL
28	Financial Analyst	6	226,710 BRL
29	Other Management Career	10	223,618 BRL
30	Other IT Career	11	222,588 BRL
31	Lawyer	9	222,072 BRL
32	Engineer	24	214,859 BRL
33	Lead Developer	12	212,283 BRL
34	Mechanical Engineer	28	211,252 BRL
35	Software Engineer	13	204,039 BRL
36	Electrical Engineer	9	204,039 BRL
37	Product Development Manager	5	204,039 BRL
38	University Professor	5	203,008 BRL
39	Human Resource	5	200,947 BRL
40	Salesmen or Saleswomen	6	196,310 BRL
41	Human Resource Hunter	4	186,005 BRL
42	Human Resource Coordinator	7	181,368 BRL
43	J2EE Developer	6	179,822 BRL
44	Security Specialist	4	170,547 BRL
45	University Professor Assistant	4	166,941 BRL
46	System Analyst	12	157,666 BRL
47	Electrical Technician	4	149,422 BRL
48	Software Developer	36	146,846 BRL
49	Other Marketing Career	5	144,785 BRL
50	Architect	6	142,209 BRL
51	Web Developer	6	140,663 BRL
52	.NET Developer	8	140,148 BRL
53	Java Developer	10	128,812 BRL
54	Relationship Manager	4	126,751 BRL
55	Data-warehouse Engineer	4	126,751 BRL
56	Administrative Assistant	4	119,022 BRL
57	C, C++ Developer	6	115,931 BRL
58	Human Resource Administrator	4	111,809 BRL

People's individual salary examples (surveys)

Team Lead

Posted 27 September 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Team management, java development, Solution Architecture."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sao Paulo	Masters Degree	8-12 Years	Expert	348,700 BRL

People Strategy Team Leader

Posted 12 September 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Compensation
Analytics
Payroll."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Campinas	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	Intermediate	155,400 BRL

Credit Risk Modeling Consultant

Posted 08 September 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Credit Risk Modeling."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sao Paulo	Masters Degree	2-4 Years	Advanced	179,300 BRL

Administradora

Posted 07 September 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"HR & Accounting."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sao Paulo	Bachelors Degree	1-2 Years	Intermediate	71,700 BRL

Foreign Trade Analyst

Posted 05 September 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Coordination of shipments."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sao Paulo	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	Expert	67,300 BRL

Criminal Lawyer

Posted 30 August 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Criminal law."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sao Paulo	Masters Degree	8-12 Years	Advanced	182,000 BRL

Research Enginner

Posted 25 July 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Research Enginner at Univeristy with oil and gas projects."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Curitiba	Doctorate Degree	4-8 Years	Expert	237,800 BRL

Postdoctoral Researcher

Posted 21 July 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Research."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sao Paulo	Doctorate Degree	1-2 Years	Expert	91,300 BRL

Hr Coordinator

Posted 19 July 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Payroll, policies, legal, taxes, r&s, audit, benefits, etc."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Campinas	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	Advanced	133,400 BRL

Tech Lead

Posted 17 July 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Lead a development team."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sao Paulo	Masters Degree	8-12 Years	Expert	679,900 BRL

Energy Engineer

Posted 14 July 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Engineer."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Natal	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	Advanced	97,900 BRL

Quality Engineer

Posted 13 July 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Supplier Control."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sorocaba	Masters Degree	2-4 Years	Expert	93,800 BRL

Sales Manager - Engineering And Equipment

Posted 12 July 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Cement, Mining, Ore, Combustion, Engineering."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sao Paulo	Masters Degree	4-8 Years	Advanced	318,100 BRL

Devsecops

Posted 16 June 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"CI/CD and Security."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Fortaleza	Bachelors Degree	12-16 Years	Expert	219,500 BRL

Product Manager

Posted 14 June 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Product, agile."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Rio de Janeiro	Masters Degree	12-16 Years	Expert	457,400 BRL

Managing Director

Posted 13 June 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"In charge of business in brazil P&L."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sao Paulo	Masters Degree	16-20 Years	Expert	636,500 BRL

Managing Director

Posted 13 June 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Managing the entire subsidiary (sales, service, administration)."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sao Paulo	Masters Degree	4-8 Years	Expert	323,500 BRL

Node Developer

Posted 09 June 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Node. js."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Guarulhos	Masters Degree	1-2 Years	Expert	82,400 BRL

Sr Devops Engineer

Posted 08 June 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Cloud."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Porto Alegre	Bachelors Degree	16-20 Years	Expert	556,500 BRL

Software Engenieer

Posted 29 May 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Programing."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sao Paulo	Masters Degree	8-12 Years	Expert	157,900 BRL

Ux Design Specialist

Posted 28 May 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Product design."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Belo Horizonte	Bachelors Degree	12-16 Years	Advanced	142,100 BRL

Capital Program Manager

Posted 27 May 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Project and Program management, capital asset development projects, oil and gas, ."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Rio de Janeiro	Doctorate Degree	16-20 Years	Expert	1,133,600 BRL

Fp&a Coordinator

Posted 16 April 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Financial management, corporate finance, budgeting, forecasting, reporting."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sao Paulo	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	Advanced	118,400 BRL

Secretary

Posted 18 March 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Business administration."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sao Paulo	Some College	0-1 Year	Basic	36,700 BRL

Project Manager

Posted 11 March 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Project management."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sao Paulo	Bachelors Degree	12-16 Years	Expert	179,700 BRL

Product Owner

Posted 21 February 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Scrum
Priorization
Backlog
Team."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Porto Alegre	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	Intermediate	74,000 BRL

Hr Specialist

Posted 20 February 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Compensation and Analytcis."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sao Paulo	Masters Degree	4-8 Years	Advanced	56,900 BRL

Especialista De Ti

Posted 17 February 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Linux, Unix, SQL, Grafana, ElasticSearch, Weblogic, Shell Scripting, Python."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sao Paulo	Bachelors Degree	12-16 Years	Advanced	170,700 BRL

Human Resources Manager

Posted 15 February 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Responsible for Human development and benefits policy management."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Rio de Janeiro	Bachelors Degree	16-20 Years	Expert	209,600 BRL

Director

Posted 16 January 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Director of Strategy."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sao Paulo	Masters Degree	16-20 Years	Expert	345,400 BRL

Senior Devops Engineer

Posted 14 January 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Jenkins, cloud, terraform, aws, gcp, azure."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sao Paulo	Some College	4-8 Years	Advanced	299,300 BRL

Audit Manager

Posted 14 January 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Audit."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sao Paulo	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	Expert	130,100 BRL

Ruby Developer

Posted 03 January 2022
Key knowledge and tasks

"Ruby Java JavaScript VueJs NodeJs MySql PostgreSQL Spring."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sao José dos Campos	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	Advanced	153,500 BRL

Cloud Security Architect

Posted 25 December 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Azure and M365."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Rio de Janeiro	Bachelors Degree	8-12 Years	Expert	172,700 BRL

Application Engineer

Posted 16 December 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Customer communication, technical presentation and changes management."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
--Other--	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	Intermediate	97,900 BRL

Broadcast Engineer

Posted 03 December 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Broadcast Engineer, Workflow, ."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sao Paulo	Bachelors Degree	8-12 Years	Advanced	191,900 BRL

Director

Posted 27 November 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Directing the engineering department."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Brasília	Bachelors Degree	4-8 Years	Advanced	143,900 BRL

Writer

Posted 22 November 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Research, linguistics skills."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sao Paulo	Bachelors Degree	16-20 Years	Advanced	230,300 BRL

Program Manager Staff Leader

Posted 17 November 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Lead program management and customer service teams for latam region."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Belo Horizonte	Masters Degree	12-16 Years	Advanced	498,900 BRL

Especialist

Posted 09 November 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Relationship and partnership."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sao Paulo	Masters Degree	8-12 Years	Expert	155,900 BRL

Solutuions Archtect

Posted 03 November 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Understand all products necessities and design solution to code."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sao Paulo	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	Advanced	115,100 BRL

Customer Success Specialist

Posted 29 October 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"CSS, CSM, ."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Campinas	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	Expert	99,500 BRL

Real Estate Property And Leasing Supervisor

Posted 14 October 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Property management
Leasing
Property maintenance."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Brasília	Masters Degree	4-8 Years	Advanced	159,300 BRL

Agile Coach

Posted 13 October 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Scrum, Kanban, SAFe."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Rio de Janeiro	Masters Degree	12-16 Years	Expert	196,700 BRL

Data Engineer

Posted 11 October 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Azure data analytics bi business intelligence sql database."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Porto Alegre	Some College	2-4 Years	Advanced	100,700 BRL

Mechanical Maintenance Technician

Posted 11 October 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Performed repairs in machines."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Rio de Janeiro	Some College	4-8 Years	Advanced	98,800 BRL

Ios Developer

Posted 10 October 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Develop key features to mobile ios apps."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Sao Paulo	High School	2-4 Years	Advanced	115,100 BRL

Software Engineer

Posted 10 October 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Programmer, engineering software, teaching interns."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Belo Horizonte	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	Advanced	124,700 BRL

Project

Posted 10 October 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Projects."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Brasília	Bachelors Degree	2-4 Years	Expert	408,300 BRL

Engineering Lead

Posted 08 October 2021
Key knowledge and tasks

"Project management, equipment design, contract coordination."

City	Education	Experience	Knowledge	Gross salary / year
Rio de Janeiro	Masters Degree	12-16 Years	Advanced	494,100 BRL

ECONOMY / Brazil

Brazil has the 6th largest economy in the world by its nominal GDP and the 8th largest by its PPP (purchasing power parity) in year 2012 according to CIA. The economy is modern, inward oriented, and it's the largest in the Latin America and the 2nd largest in the Western Hemisphere. The Brazilian economy is on of the fastest growing among major economies in the world. Its annual growth is more than 5%. Brazil tend to be the country with the 5th largest economy in the world.

Brazilian labor force is estimated at around 101 million. 71% works in service sector, 19% in the industry sector, and 10% in agriculture.

Rio de Janeiro

Main industry

The largest Brazilian industries are machinery, automobile, aircraft, electronics, petrochemicals, mining, constructions, food and Beverage, textiles, and tourism.

The largest companies in Brazil are:

Petrobras (Oil & Gas Operations)
Vale (Mining)
Itaú Unibanco (Banking)
Ambev (Beverage)
Banco Bradesco (Banking)
Banco do Brasil (Banking)
OGX (Oil & Gas Operations)