minimum wage, pay for jobs, etc.?
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…
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.
