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Brazil’s Latest Pay-Transparency Report Finds Women Earn 21.2% Less in Large Private Firms

The fourth MTE assessment spotlights severe racial gaps alongside scant employer action to reduce them.

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Overview

  • Drawing on RAIS records for the second half of 2024 through the first half of 2025, the report covers 54,041 companies with 100 or more employees and 19.4 million employment links.
  • Average pay reached R$3,908.76 for women versus R$4,958.43 for men, while women held 41.1% of jobs but received only 35% of total wage mass, implying a potential R$92.7 billion shortfall.
  • The gap has widened across the series of reports from 19.4% in March 2024 to 21.2% in the new release.
  • Inequities are stark for Black women, with a 33.5% difference in median admission pay and a 53.3% gap in average earnings compared with non-Black men.
  • Companies most often cite tenure (78.7%), production targets (64.9%) and formal pay plans (56.4%) for differences, while relatively few offer childcare aid (21.9%) or extended parental leave (20.9%), and labor inspectors report 787 actions this year resulting in 154 infractions so far.