Update Report: Living Wage Brazil Urban areas of Southern and Southwestern Minas Gerais July 2019
Background
This report updates the living wage and living expenses for the coffee producing region of Southern and Southwestern Minas Gerais State in Brazil. The net living wage and living expenses are updated to the study month of the most recent calendar year—July 2019—to take into account the amount of inflation since the original study in July 2015. Without accounting for inflation, the net living wage estimated in 2015 would not be sufficient for workers to have a basic but decent standard of living in 2019 because the purchasing power of the living wage would have decreased. Similarly, living expenses for a reference family are also updated to July 2019 to account for inflation. The gross living wage is updated to July 2019 by taking into consideration in addition income taxes and mandatory deductions from pay that workers would need to pay on the updated 2019 living wage. This is done using July 2019 laws.
This report is an update to the original Anker Living Wage Benchmark report written in June 2016. Please click below to read the full Benchmark Study.
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