In 2010, the Central Register of Enterprises (CEMPRE) had 5.1 million enterprises and other organizations, which employed 49.7 million persons – being 43 million (86.4%) as salaried workers and 6.7 million (13.6%) as partners or owners – and paid R$ 908.8 billion in salaries and other compensation, with an average salary of R$1,650.30.

 

Compared to results of 2009, these figures represent an increment of 280.7 thousand (5.8%) units to the total number of enterprises and other organizations and an increase of 2.8 million (6.9%) salaried persons.  Total of salaries and other compensation recorded increase of 9.2% in real terms.  Considering the period 2007/2010, a highlight is the 17.3% increase of salaried employed persons (6.3 million).

 

CEMPRE gathers register and economic information of formally established companies and other enterprises (public administration, non-profit entities, natural persons and extraterritorial institutions) in the country, and of their respective local branches (company addresses and other organizations).  The complete publication of CEMPRE Statistics is available at

 

https://www.ibge.gov.br/home/estatistica/economia/cadastroempresa/2010/default.shtm.

 

 

The participation of companies in the total number of active organizations was also a highlight in 2010, representing 89.7% of the total. These entities held 74.9% of the total employed persons, 71.7% of the salaried persons and 62.3% of the salaries paid in the year.

 

Average real salary rose 9.1% in three years 

 

From 2007 to 2010, the average real monthly salary paid by enterprises and other organizations changed from R$ 1,513.12 to R$ 1,650.30, with increase of 9.1%.   considering legal nature, in 2010, the highest salaries were paid by Public Administration, R$ 2,268,12.  Non-profit entities featured in the second position, and paid, on average, R$ 1,534.48. Business entities paid the lowest salaries: R$ 1,461.37.

 

Compared with 2009, average monthly wages rose 0.6%. By legal nature, Public Administration recorded the biggest increase, 1.5%, followed by Business Entities, 0.9%, and Non-profit entities, 0.5%. In the period 2007-2010, the biggest real increase was that of Public Administration, 11.7%, followed by 9.0%, of Business Entities, and 5.5%, of Non-profit entities.

Trade features as a highlight in three of the four variables analyzed in 2010

 

For the first time since 2007, the activity Trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles was in the first position in terms of salaried persons, with 18.7%. It surpassed Manufacturing industry, which employed 18.6% of the salaried persons. This activity also had the biggest participation in terms of two other variables: total employed persons, 22.1%; and number of enterprises and other active organizations, 43.8%.

 

With reference to the participation in salaries and other compensation, Public Administration, defense and social security was in the first position, with 24.9%, followed by Manufacturing industry, with 19.8%.  The activity Trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles was in third place, and paid 11.5% of the total salaries.   

 

Trade and Construction led generation of jobs between 2007 and 2010

 

Out of the 6.3 million new salaried jobs generated between 2007 and 2010 by enterprises and other organizations, Trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles was responsible for 22.9%, being followed by Construction, with 15.1% and Manufacturing industry, in the third position, with 11.8%. 

These activities accumulated in the period, respectively, 6.8%, 16.1% and 3.5% of annual relative increase of the new occupations, whereas the average was 5.5%.  

 

In the period 2009-2010, Manufacturing industry generated 18.6% (527,002) of the 2,788,521 new salaried jobs.  As a result, in this period, this activity featured in the second position, after Trade, with 22% (601.887) and ahead of Construction, with 13.6% (378,615). The graph below presents the five main sections by balance of salaried occupations between 2007 and 2010: 

 

Trade reduces participation in number of enterprises between 2007 and 2010

 

In 2010, the section Trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles was the leader in terms of units, with 43.8% of the total enterprises and other organizations. However, in relation to 2007, that represented decrease of 2.3 percentage points (p.p.). The activity which featured in second place in terms of relative participation, Manufacturing industry, also recorded decrease, having changed from 9.0% to 8.6%, as well as Other service activities, in the third position, which fell from 7.9% in 2007 to 7.5% in 2010. These relative change of number of companies for these activities was below average (16.0%), respectively, 10.3%, 10.7% and 10.6%.

 

On the other hand, the biggest increases in relative participation were those of Agriculture, livestock, forestry, fishing and aquaculture, from 0.8% to 1.9%, Construction, from 2.7% to 3.5% and Professional, scientific and technical activities, from 4.1% to 4.6%, whose relative figures for number of enterprises and organizations were 163.6%, 51.6% and 29.7%, respectively, above the average (16.0%). 

 

Electricity and gas pays the highest average monthly salary (R$ 5,125.90)

 

Among the 20 main business activities analyzed, Electricity and gas paid the highest average monthly salary, R$5,125.90. Financial, insurance and related activities was in the second position, with R$ 3,847.38, followed by International organizations and other extraterritorial institutions, with R$ 3,610.61 of average monthly salary.

 

On the other hand, Lodging and feeding was the activity which recorded the lowest salary, R$ 779.58, followed by Administrative activities and complementary services, R$ 973.06, and Agriculture, livestock, forestry and aquaculture, with an average monthly salary of R$ 1,022.94.  

Micro companies face decrease in participation and bigger ones pay better salaries

 

 

The analysis by size of business entities, between 2007 and 2010, shows decrease in participation of business entities in all the variables analyzed: from 89.0% to 88.7% in terms of number of enterprises, from 27.5% to 26.6% of total employed persons, from 14.8% to 14.6% of salaried employed persons and from 8.9% to 8.8% of salaries and other compensation.

 

Another important fact is that the salary paid by companies is directly proportional to their size. In 2010, the average monthly salaries in big companies amounted to R$ 2,019,57, whereas in micro enterprises they totaled R$ 825.42, what corresponds to a difference of 144.7%.  Small enterprises paid R$ 989.08 and medium ones, R$ 1,349.08.

 

 

Male participation decreases; the opposite happens to salary difference by sex

 

From 2009 to 2010, male participation in salaried employed persons was reduced from 58.1% to 57.9% in enterprises and other organizations. Consequently, female participation increased from 41.9% to 42.1%. Out of the 2,788,521 new job posts, 1,260,054 (45.2%) were held by women. Nevertheless, salary differences by sex increased from 24.1% to 25%: women also earned, on average, a monthly salary of 2.8 minimum wages, and men, of 3.5.

 

 

The South Region presents the biggest participation of women in the salaried employed population, 44%, followed by the North and Northeast, both with 42.1%. Consequently, these are the regions which have the smallest number of men among salaried workers, 56% and 57.9%, respectively.  The Central West Region has the smallest population of salaried women: 40.2% of women versus 59.8% of men. The Southeast Region follows, with 41.7% of women and 58.3% of men.  

 

 

Salaried persons with a higher education degree earn salaries 230.4% bigger

 

Between 2009 and 2010, the participation of persons without a higher-education degree fell from 83.5% to 83.4% of the salaried employed persons in enterprises and other organizations. However, salary differences by level of schooling increased from 225% to 230.4%. On average, workers without a higher-education degree earned 2.3 minimum wages per month, whereas persons with a higher-education degree earned 7.6.

 

The Major Regions which concentrated the biggest participation of persons without a higher-education degree were the South and Northeast, both with 84.8%. The North Region features in second place, with 84.6% of salaried persons without a higher-education degree. On the other hand, the Central-West Region concentrates the biggest participation of salaried persons with a higher-education degree, 19.1%, followed by the Southeast, with 17.3%.

 

The table below gathers data of salaried employed persons by sex and level of schooling for Brazil and its Major Regions.

 

Northeast Region surpasses the South in terms of total employed persons

 

In the analysis by Major Region of enterprises and other organizations, the Southeast  was the highlight, concentrating 51.4% of the units in the country, 51.4% of the total employed persons, 51.1% of the salaried employed persons and 55.5% of salaried and other compensation in 2010.  

 

A highlight is the participation of the Northeast Region, which surpassed the South both in terms of total employed persons, with 17.8%, and salaried persons, with 18.4%. These variables in the South Region were 17.7% and 17%, respectively.  The Central West Region features in the fourth position, with 7.9% and 8.0% of the total salaried employed persons, respectively.  he North Region was in fifth place, with 5.2 and 5.5% of participation in these variables.

 

However, in relation to salaries and other compensation, the South Regions remained in second place, with 15.4%, whereas the Northeast concentrated 14.1%. In terms of local branches, the South Region also held the second position, with 21.8%, and ahead of the Northeast, with 15.8%.  The Central West Region featured in the fourth position, with 9.9% of salaries and other compensation and 7.4% of the branches in the country. The North Region was in fifth place, presenting, respectively, 5% and 3.6%.  

 

 

Central West Region pays the highest average salary (3.9 minimum wages)

 

The Central West Region recorded the highest average monthly salary, and paid, in 2010, 3.9 minimum wages, followed by the Southeast Region, with 3.5 minimum wages. The North Region was also a highlight, in the third position, with an average of 3.0 minimum wages. The South Region, with 2.9 minimum wages, was only ahead of the Norrheast, which paid 2.5 minimum wages.

 

 

It is possible to observe that the Northeast Region, despite some increase of participation in salaried persons, still concentrates most of these persons in the groups of lower salary ranges, with 54.7% of salaried persons earning from 1.1 to 2 minimum wages.

 

 

 

Southeast accounts for 45.9% of the new vacancies generated between 2007 and 2010

 

 

In absolute figures, the Southeast Region accounted for 2.9 million new jobs. The Northeast Region was in second place, with 22.7% (1.4 million), followed by the South Region, with 15.2% (966.3 thousand). The Central West Region, with 9% (571.4 thousand) and the North, with 7.1% (451.8 thousand), were the ones accounting for the smallest number of new contributions.   

 

In the Southeast Region, the main Federation Units in terms of new jobs were São Paulo, with 28.6% (1.8 million), Minas Gerais, with 9.1% (579.5 thousand) and Rio de Janeiro, with 6.5% (410.3 thousand). In the South Region, the highlights were Paraná, with 5.9% (373.6 thousand) and Rio Grande do Sul, with 5.3% (334.8 thousand). In the Northeast Region, the Federation Units which most contributed to the increment of salaried persons were: Bahia, with 5.6% (356.9 thousand), Pernambuco, with 4.9% (310.8 thousand) and Ceará, with 3.8% (241.0 thousand). In the Central West, the main highlights were: Goiás, with 3.8% (239.2) and the Federal District, with 2.5% (159.9 thousand). In the North Region, the Federation Units which most contributed to the generation of new jobs were: Pará, with 2.8% (177.0 thousand), Rondônia, with 1.3% (85.0 thousand) and Amazonas, with 1.3% (82.6 thousand).

 

Trade is the leader in employment generation in 4 of the 5 Major Regions

 

Trade, repair of automotive vehicles and motorcycles was the activity that generated most jobs between 2007 and 2010 in 4 of the 5 Brazilian Major Regions. In the Southeast, it was responsible for 23.3% of the new jobs; in the South, for 28.3%; in the Central West, for 22.6%, and in the North, for 20.4%.  Only in the Northeast did this activity feature in the second position, with 19.6%, having been surpassed by Construction, with 20.1% of the new jobs.

 

São Paulo employed 29.6 of the salaried persons; Roraima, only 0.2%.

 

In 2010, São Paulo had the biggest concentration of local branches and salaried persons, respectively, 31.2% and 29.6%. The second positon was held by Minas Gerais, with 10.9% of local branches and 10.2% of salaried persons. In the third place, Rio Grande do Sul featured with 8.9% of the local branches, but, in terms of salaried persons, Rio de  Janeiro was better, with 9.4%.  Roraima is the state with the smallest participation in salaried persons, only 0.2% and also with the smallest percentage of branches, 0.1%.