Members of the Public Prosecutor’s Office received at least R$ 2.3 billion above the constitutional ceiling last year, and 77% of them exceeded the ceiling by more than R$ 100 thousand.
In ten state units of the MP, all members received above the ceiling:Alagoas, Mato Grosso, Goiás, Amazonas, Ceará, Maranhão, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio de Janeiro, Rondônia and Acre. In addition, in Amapá, Pernambuco, Sergipe and Espírito Santo, only one member did not exceed the ceiling.
Pending payments for accumulation of service (compensatory leave, bonus for cumulative exercise and accumulation of acquisitions) are the most representative on the paycheck and amounted to R$687.4 million last year.
It was not possible to identify the nature of the R$1.4 billion paid to these members, due to the opacity of the description of the items. The amount represents 31% of all payments made in addition to the basic salary.
With the exception of the Military Public Prosecutor’s Office, all the Public Prosecutor’s units in this analysis paid an average gross salary above the constitutional ceiling. Rio de Janeiro had the highest average: R$76.2 thousand.
The analysis did not take into account the Public Prosecutor ‘s Officesof Santa Catarina and Mato Grosso do Sul, as both withheld the disclosure of names and registrations from their members’ paychecks. The measure makes it impossible to identify salaries and expressly contravenes Resolution 89/2012 of the National Council of Public Prosecutors (CNMP), which determines the nominal transparency of paychecks. The units in Pará, Roraima and Tocantins were also not considered because they had not published complete data for all the months of 2024 when the information was collected in April 2025.
The findings of this study reinforce the prevalence of payments above the constitutional ceiling to members of the justice system, which is an affront to the Constitution and the principles of morality and rationality in public administration.
It is essential that an effective legal framework be approved to combat overpayments in the justice system, especially with regard to the proliferation and distortion of compensation payments. In this context, we reiterate that the text of Bill 2.721/21 approved by the House in 2021, currently before the Senate, aggravates privileges rather than combating them.
