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Jobs & cost of living · Brazil

For recent grads: how easy it is to find work, how good the jobs are, what they pay and what life costs.

Grad view

Brazil

Youth unemployment: 14.0 % · 2025
Recent-grad employment: 87.7 % · 2024
Average wage (PPP): no data
Price level: 46 USA = 100 · 2025
Housing squeeze: no data

Latest	BR
Unemployment rate %	6.22026
Youth unemployment, 15–24 %	14.02025
Unemployment with a degree %	3.22025
Employment rate, tertiary-educated 25–34 %	87.72024
Not in employment, education or training (NEET) %	18.72025
Graduate earnings premium index	2042024
Part-time work %	24.82025
Very long hours (50 h + a week) %	9.82024
Minimum wage, hourly US$ PPP	3.012025
Price level of household consumption USA = 100	462025
Big Mac price US$	4.71H2 2026

Unemployment

Unemployment rate

monthly where available · %

Source: IMF, World Economic Outlook (DataMapper)

Youth unemployment, 15–24

US 16–24 · %

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0

Unemployment with a degree

advanced education · US bachelor’s, 25–34 · %

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0

Graduates

Employment rate, tertiary-educated 25–34

Source: OECD Data Explorer (prices; financial market statistics), CC BY 4.0

Not in employment, education or training (NEET)

EU 15–29 · elsewhere 15–24 · %

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0

Graduate earnings premium

full-time earnings of tertiary-educated 25–34s, upper secondary = 100 · index

Source: OECD Data Explorer (prices; financial market statistics), CC BY 4.0

Job quality

Part-time work

share of employment · %

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0

Very long hours (50 h + a week)

work–life balance: share of workers · %

Source: OECD Data Explorer (prices; financial market statistics), CC BY 4.0

Wages

Minimum wage, hourly

constant prices, PPP · US$ PPP

Source: OECD Data Explorer (prices; financial market statistics), CC BY 4.0

Cost of living

Price level of household consumption

how expensive life is at market exchange rates, USA = 100 · USA = 100

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0

Big Mac price

NL and EU: euro-area average · US$

Source: The Economist, Big Mac index (CC BY 4.0)

Not available for Brazil: Unemployment, 25–29, Job vacancy rate, Job openings per unemployed person, Long-term unemployed (1 year +), Quits rate, Employment rate of recent graduates, Temporary contracts, Temporary contracts, 15–24, Hours worked per worker, per year, Usual weekly hours, full-time job, Average annual wage, Median full-time wage (approx.), Real wage growth, Minimum wage vs median wage, Minimum wage, monthly (EU), Price level now (OECD, monthly), Price level of household consumption (EU27 = 100), Price level: food (EU27 = 100), Price level: housing, water, energy (EU27 = 100), Price level: transport (EU27 = 100), Price level: restaurants and hotels (EU27 = 100), House price-to-income, House price-to-rent, Rents, Housing cost overburden, aged 25–29, Still living with their parents, 25–29.