Before you sign an employment contract in Brazil, it may give benefits if you read the updated 2020 version of the country’s Employment and Labor Laws and Regulations. This will give you important information about being an employee in Brazil and the laws that can protect you too.

Knowing that the overall cost of living in Brazil is relatively lower than other foreign destinations, you’ll get the idea that compensation may not go as high as countries in Europe and progressive nations in Asia as well. The minimum wage set by the government as of 2019 already increased to USD 257 after-tax from a lower rate in the previous years.

To give you a glimpse of your possible monthly earnings in Brazil, here is a tabulated list of the country’s salary rates per type of job:

Data Sources: Numbeo, Payscale, Glassdoor