Linklist of the week

For lack of time to actually write something, at least my latest reading list:

• Website focusing on infrastructure investments for the world cup: http://www.copa2014.org.br/en/infrastructure/
• Should you speak some Portuguese, 20% salary increases in a year in many professional categories. Nice article in Exame: http://exame.abril.com.br/carreira/noticias/salarios-aumentam-mais-de-20-em-um-ano-diz-robert-half
• Brazil still is not the berth of intellectualism. The JiaoTong University has released it's latest ranking and Brazil is not in the top 100: http://www.arwu.org/index.jsp (The top 20 contain two British, one Japanese and 17 US Universities)
  

Top executive salaries are paid in... São Paulo

The Economist, January 27, 2011

This week's The Economist is running an article on a market study on executive pay. In Brazil, specifically, São Paulo, pay is highest, with generous bonuses to boot - coupled with extremely high taxes, this makes hiring executive professionals daunting. Even without the real valorization, São Paulo is an expensive place to hire top-execs, when you get them.

In addition, a befriended Blog (Expat American in Brazil) confirms what I have also noticed: Scarce local labor (especially on a high level) is starting to make an export of labor from other countries an option - in addition to trying to get Brazilian Expats abroad to return to Brazil.

Minimum Required Wage

Another blog on Brazil has this interesting post on the necessary minimum wage in Brazil. According to the blog, the minimum wage, today at 510BRL is thus only a quarter of what it would have to be...

You can also load the table directly: Here.