Average monthly household income grew 6.9% in 2022, according to research

PNAD analyst Continuous-Income Alessandra Brito highlights the reasons that led to this result. “In the year 2022, we could observe an increase in the proportion of people with some type of income, whether from work or from other sources”, she points out.

“This increase was mainly driven by the increase in the proportion of people earning income at work. this is because, from 2021 to 2022, almost eight million people returned to the labor market and the employed population increased by 7.7 million. this reflected a reduction of 2.1% in the average income from work in the period, the increase in mass at work and also in the reduction of the Gini Index at work, which was 0.486% for 2022, the lowest value in the series”, he adds.

The Gini index, or Gini coefficient, measures the equality or inequality of income distribution in a given territory.
According to the survey, the Northeast region continues to have the lowest average monthly household income per capita (R$ 1,011), while the South has the highest (R$ 1,927). The percentage of people with income in the country’s population rose from 59.8% in 2021 to 62.6% in 2022.

Between 2021 and 2022, there was a 6.6% increase in the mass of real monthly income from all jobs, which led the value to reach R$ 253.1 billion. The average monthly income in the “Rent and Leasing” category fell from BRL 1,989 in 2021 to BRL 1,755 in 2022.

Economist Robson Gonçalves, professor of MBAs at Fundação Getúlio Vargas, says that measures such as Auxílio Brasil helped families during this period, but in general the result is satisfactory.

“The 6.9% growth is quite important. When we consider both the employment component and the income component, we notice that the total mass of workers’ real income had an increase of 6.6%. This also favors household consumption,” he points out.