Brazilian companies that employ 100 or more employees have until the 30th to complete the second Salary Transparency and Remuneration Criteria Report, available at Emprega Brasil portalfrom the Ministry of Labor and Employment (MTE).
The disclosure of information is a requirement of the so-called Equal Pay Act (Law No. 14,611), of 2023, which establishes the obligation for men and women who perform the same function or work of equal value to receive the same salary.
Using the information provided by the companies, the MTE produces a consolidated report, which will be made available by September 16th so that companies can reproduce the content among their employees and the general public. Companies that do not publicize the results of the survey may be fined up to 3% of their payroll, without prejudice to the sanctions applicable to cases of salary discrimination provided for by law.
This will be the second report produced this year. More than 49,580 establishments responded to the previous one, revealing that, in general, women earn 19.4% less than men performing the same functions. The results released in March also indicate that only 32.6% of the companies that completed the document have policies to encourage the hiring of women.
The figure is even lower when considering specific groups of women: black women (26.4%); women with disabilities (23.3%); LBTQIAP+ (20.6%); heads of households (22.4%); and victims of violence (5.4%). Meanwhile, 38.3% of companies have policies to promote women to management or executive positions. The document released by the MTE also showed that the average salary in Brazil is R$4,472, but while non-black men receive R$5,718 and non-black women receive R$4,452, black men earn R$3,844 and black women earn R$3,041.
For the Undersecretary of Statistics and Labor Studies at the MTE, Paula Montagner, the tendency is for the diagnosis to be repeated in the next survey, especially with regard to the wage gap between genders.
“It is still too early to talk about a significant reduction in the wage gap between men and women. We need to change the culture that perpetuates the idea that women earn less and are the first to be fired,” the undersecretary said in a statement released by the ministry.
