Brazil - minimum wage, pay for jobs, etc.?

Question

I know that the minimum wage in Brazil is now R$400 per month (about $200 USD). But, what is the pay for typical jobs?

Like...

Working at the front desk at a hotel...

Working as a waiter in a restaurant...

Working as a salesman in a store in a shopping mall...

Working in a bank or for the government...

Would these jobs be minimum wage or would they pay more????

Answer 1

depends where u are working... the country is huge so salaries vary hugely.

but front desk hotel (normal) varies from 400 reais to 2000 reais

Answer 2

i worked as an internt in a hotel and my salary was R$250 a month...thank god my parents have enough money to support me while i don't find a descent work

working in brazil sucks

Answer 3

It all depends on which city you are talkin abaout.

I´ll give ya São Paulo, since it´s the biggest

Front Desk - R$900 - R$ 1300

Waiter - R$400 - 1200 + tips

Salesman in Mall - R$ 500 + comission

Bank - well this is so open... Could be  minimum wage or 20k a month The richest brazilians are bankers

Governament - open again few hundred or millions

Answer 4

In Sao Paulo

Working at the front desk in a fancy hotel: U$250.00 to U$350.00. ( don't belive if someone tells you is more than that!, some brazilians are too proud and unrealistic when they talk about their own country with foreigns.)

Waiter in a fancy restaurant: U$250,00 plus tips, (is not like in the USA, in Brazil it is very difficult to get tips)

Salesman in mall: U$250.00 plus comission.

Working for the government: it depends it can go from U$180.00,  up to U$15.000,00

The first 3 jobs are working class, you can imagine how difficult is being a working class in a third world country...

Answer 5

1 - Working as a salesman in a store in a shopping mall... : R$ 500,00 to R$1.500,00 (US$ 250.00 to us$ 750.00);

2 - Working at the front desk at a hotel...: I dont know;

3 - Working as a waiter in a restaurant... (? to US$ 800,00); and,

4 - Working in a bank or for the government...R$1.500,00 to R$ 20.000,00 (US$ 750.00 to us$ 10,000.00) or more, if a high executive (more than US$  30,000.00 a month).

Answer 6

Minimum wage os R$380,00 as of April.

The jobs you refer to are regulated by unions, therefore they have higher wages for sure.

for the governement only if you go trhu a civil servent test, that is all divided and hard to pass, pays a LOT more.

Front desk does not pay very well, but averages R$ 1200,00

but there is a lot of comission on sales of tourism packagers, everybody pays comission to front desk, taxis, tour operatiors, even jewellery shops, boutiques, etc...

Waiter depends on %, tips.

Sales depends on comission

banks aparently do not pay well, unless they are Governement banks, in which case a test is needed.

Bear in mind language skills are valued here.

A Lot of need for english teachers, translators, etc. but for some you need good portuguese.

As an English teacher you can make something like 1500/2000 a month.

Answer 7

The minimum wage in Brazil is now R$350 per month!

Answer 8

Well... Our country isn´t the best of the world. This thanks to politics and to economic sistems. Our people can´t have a good life cause the government don´t give value to the education.

The education is the base for a powerfull economy.

Answer 9

Note that these payments are per month, not weekly as in US. I used to work in a front desk at an airport and make about BRL 500 a month.. I couldn`t do it anymore.

Answer 10

That's right, not a very good pay in Brazil but there is also cost of living that's different.  Most manual kind of labour work is far underpaid.  And the rest has been told.

Answer 11

I work as a forest consultant. My wage is BRL 2,500/month, or USD 1,225/month.