The salaries paid by the Judiciary and the Public Prosecutor’s Office to their members are made up of hundreds of benefits in addition to the salary, which generates an extensive and complex volume of data. Transparência Brasil’s DadosJusBr project obtains, standardizes and makes available the updated payslips of 123 bodies centrally on an accessible platform.

The aim of the project is to ensure that society knows how each judge, prosecutor and judge is paid. What allowances do they receive? What are the amounts of these allowances? How much above the constitutional ceiling did an official receive in a given month? How much did a body spend in a year? All these questions can be answered through DadosJusBr.

Data intelligence for citizen action

One of the pioneering features developed by the project is the standardization of the various nomenclatures given by the bodies to the same benefit: if in the payslips of the courts of justice there are five variations of writing for the ‘food allowance’, for example, in DadosJusBr they will all be identified by the same name. This makes it possible to compare expenses between benefits.

Before you access the DadosJusBr platform, here’s everything you need to know:

• Data available from January 2018 for 123 bodies;
• Months of missing data are the responsibility of the bodies themselves, because the salaries are extracted from the official transparency portals;
• Remuneration does not include civil servants in administrative, technical or advisory positions, among others.

DadosJusBr also seeks to promote and foster a culture of transparency of public information in the justice system. For this reason, the more complete and accessible the data, the higher the body ‘s score in the project’s Transparency Index.

Transparência Brasil has also had a cooperation agreement with the National Council of Justice to promote transparency in the judiciary since May 2021. The periodic surveys and recommendations presented to the Council regarding the completeness and consistency of the courts’ data have ensured a 35% improvement in transparency in one year of cooperation.