A plain-language diagnosis of the weight, value and reality of public salaries in the Minas Gerais state administration.
Much is said about how state civil servants are paid. But how much does a Minas Gerais public employee earn on average? Which sector or agency pays the most? And does the distribution of salaries in the State resemble that of the Minas Gerais labor market?
This diagnosis was built to answer these questions in simple, transparent language that any citizen can follow. The starting point is the payroll that the Government of Minas Gerais itself publishes on its Transparency Portal: more than 20 million payment records between January 2018 and August 2026. To compare periods safely, we analyze five reference months in detail (Nov 2018, Nov 2022, Aug 2025, Nov 2025 and Aug 2026), totaling about 2.6 million payments. In November 2025 alone, the Executive payroll paid about 560,000 employees, active and retired.
Minas Gerais Public Pay Dashboard
The cost of public-sector pay, explained
Average gross pay of active employees by sector – Minas Gerais – Nov 2025
Source: Estadosfera Consultoria para o Desenvolvimento, based on the Minas Gerais Transparency Portal.
Note: Values in Brazilian reais (R$) at Dec 2025 prices, adjusted by the IPCA. Minas Gerais Gini: IBGE, PNAD Contínua (SIDRA 7453).
What you will find
- Part 1 – Who they are and how much they earn: how many employees there are, how much the payroll costs and how average pay has changed since 2018, net of inflation.
- Part 2 – Careers: Education (including tenured and temporary teachers and school principals), Public Security and Health.
- Part 3 – Inequality, women and the pay cap: how pay is distributed, what women and men earn, and who is paid at the constitutional cap.
- Downloads: every chart can be saved as an image (PNG) or as data (CSV).
Chart validation version. The analysis for each part is being written.
Part 1 – Who they are and how much they earn
Chart 1 – Average gross pay of active and retired public employees – Minas Gerais – Nov 2018 to Aug 2026
Source: Estadosfera Consultoria para o Desenvolvimento, based on the Minas Gerais Transparency Portal.
Note: Values in Brazilian reais (R$) at Dec 2025 prices, adjusted by the IPCA consumer price index. The Transparency Portal has published the full payroll of retirees only since May 2025.
Note: In Aug 2026, pay includes indemnity allowances, which the Portal began reporting in a separate column in Feb 2026.
Chart 2 – Active employees of the Executive Branch – Minas Gerais – Nov 2018 to Aug 2026
Source: Estadosfera Consultoria para o Desenvolvimento, based on the Minas Gerais Transparency Portal.
Note: Employee = person in each status (active or retired), counted once.
Chart 3 – Average gross pay of active employees by sector – Minas Gerais – Nov 2018 to Aug 2026
Source: Estadosfera Consultoria para o Desenvolvimento, based on the Minas Gerais Transparency Portal.
Note: Values in R$ at Dec 2025 prices, adjusted by the IPCA. Vertical line: state average for active employees.
Note: In Aug 2026, pay includes indemnity allowances, which the Portal began reporting in a separate column in Feb 2026.
Chart 4 – Active and retired employees by sector – Minas Gerais – Nov 2025 and Aug 2026
Source: Estadosfera Consultoria para o Desenvolvimento, based on the Minas Gerais Transparency Portal.
Chart 5 – Employees by sector and agency – Minas Gerais – Nov 2025
Source: Estadosfera Consultoria para o Desenvolvimento, based on the Minas Gerais Transparency Portal.
Note: Active and retired employees. Click a sector to see its agencies.
Part 2 – Careers
Education
Chart 6 – Average gross pay of active employees by career – Education, State School Network – Minas Gerais – Nov 2018 and Nov 2025
Source: Estadosfera Consultoria para o Desenvolvimento, based on the Minas Gerais Transparency Portal.
Note: Values in R$ at Dec 2025 prices, adjusted by the IPCA.
Chart 7 – Tenured and temporary (designated) active employees by position – Education – Minas Gerais – Aug 2026
Source: Estadosfera Consultoria para o Desenvolvimento, based on the Minas Gerais Transparency Portal.
Note: Designated staff are hired on temporary contracts, identified by the position code (PEBD, PEBS, EEBD and others), which the Portal has reported only since Feb 2026. Hover to see counts and averages.
Chart 8 – Average gross pay of state school principals – Minas Gerais – Nov 2018 to Aug 2026
Source: Estadosfera Consultoria para o Desenvolvimento, based on the Minas Gerais Transparency Portal.
Note: Values in R$ at Dec 2025 prices, adjusted by the IPCA. Hover to see the number of principals.
Note: In Aug 2026, pay includes indemnity allowances, which the Portal began reporting in a separate column in Feb 2026.
Public Security
Chart 9 – Average gross pay of active employees by career – Public Security – Minas Gerais – Nov 2018 and Nov 2025
Source: Estadosfera Consultoria para o Desenvolvimento, based on the Minas Gerais Transparency Portal.
Note: Values in R$ at Dec 2025 prices, adjusted by the IPCA.
Health
Chart 10 – Average gross pay of active employees by career – Health – Minas Gerais – Nov 2018 and Nov 2025
Source: Estadosfera Consultoria para o Desenvolvimento, based on the Minas Gerais Transparency Portal.
Note: Values in R$ at Dec 2025 prices, adjusted by the IPCA.
Part 3 – Inequality, women and the pay cap
Chart 11 – Pay inequality among active employees (Gini index) by sector – Minas Gerais – Nov 2018 and Nov 2025
Source: Estadosfera Consultoria para o Desenvolvimento, based on the Minas Gerais Transparency Portal.
Note: Gini index: 0 = everyone earns the same; 1 = one person earns everything. Dotted lines: Gini of earnings from all jobs of employed people in Minas Gerais and Brazil in 2025 (IBGE, PNAD Contínua, SIDRA 7453). The measures are not identical: the State figure covers only what the Executive pays its own employees.
Chart 12 – Lorenz curve of active employees’ pay – Minas Gerais – Nov 2025
Source: Estadosfera Consultoria para o Desenvolvimento, based on the Minas Gerais Transparency Portal.
Note: The farther from the equality line, the greater the inequality.
Chart 13 – Share of women among active employees by sector – Minas Gerais – Nov 2025
Source: Estadosfera Consultoria para o Desenvolvimento, based on the Minas Gerais Transparency Portal.
Note: Sex estimated from first name, based on the 2010 Census (IBGE); 95.5% of employees identified.
Chart 14 – Average gross pay of women and men by sector – Minas Gerais – Nov 2025
Source: Estadosfera Consultoria para o Desenvolvimento, based on the Minas Gerais Transparency Portal.
Note: Values in R$ at Dec 2025 prices, adjusted by the IPCA. Active and retired employees.
Chart 15 – Employees and the constitutional pay cap – Minas Gerais – Nov 2018 to Aug 2026
Source: Estadosfera Consultoria para o Desenvolvimento, based on the Minas Gerais Transparency Portal.
Note: (A) pay reduced by the cap deduction; (B) paid above the cap in at least one position after the deduction; (C) total pay above the cap, adding positions and items not subject to the cap. Each panel has its own scale.
Note: Executive cap: the Governor’s salary (R$ 41,845.49 in 2025–2026); State Attorneys and agency lawyers: the salary of a Supreme Court (STF) Justice.
How we calculated
Sources, concepts and methodological choices are explained step by step in the methodology note Como calculamos (in Portuguese; English version forthcoming).
Source: Estadosfera Consultoria para o Desenvolvimento, based on the Minas Gerais Transparency Portal.
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