The rise in the income of public service employees and the income of the private sector in the clutches of the epidemic – News

a novel coronavirus pandemic جائحة Show significant differences between the most diverse sectors of the economy. In terms of wages, while formal workers in the private sector saw a 0.76% drop in income, those in the public sector saw average wage growth of 3.54% in the past year.

According to data from the PNAD (National Household Sample Questionnaire), conducted by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the average income of employees with a formal contract working in the private sector decreased from R$2,358 to R$2,340. Meanwhile, wages for public employees have increased from R$3,980 to R$4,121 since the start of the pandemic.

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With this move, the average salary earned by professionals in the private sector is now 56.78% of the salary earned by civil servants. Before the pandemic, it was 59.25%, which is an advance equivalent to 9.8% in the salary difference between the two periods.

The salary disparity is even greater when analyzing private professionals without a formal contract, whose average income is R$1,561, a figure corresponding to only 37.9% of the income of public servants and only 0.52% higher than the income. received a year ago.

According to the survey data, the average wage of civil servants is only exceeded by employers, who earn, on average, R$5,980 per month, an amount that decreased by 5.36% between the first quarters of 2020 and 2021.

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In the analysis by sectors of the economy, the professionals most affected were those who work in activities that include accommodation and food. They saw the average salary melt by 9.68% in a one-year period, going from R$1,591 to R$1,437.

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Losses were also calculated for workers in transportation, warehousing and mail (-7.84%), in the areas of information and communications, financial, real estate, professional and administrative activities (-4.91%), other services (-3.68%), household services (-3.65%) and commercial activities (-1.7). %).

On the other hand, public administration professionals (+5.3%) and freelance professionals (+0.05%) saw income improve from the first quarter of 2020 to the first three months of 2021.