District attorney - Salary and Career
Prosecutors and Public Attorneys

District attorney - Career description, activities, functions and salary

They represent the public administration in the judicial sphere, provide legal advice and advice to the public administration, exercise internal control of the legality of the administration's acts, watch over public property and interest, such as the environment, consumer and others, integrate processing committees, generate human and material resources for the prosecution.

How much does an District attorney earn

A District attorney earns between $0 and $0 per month, with an average monthly salary of $5.500 and a median salary of $5.500 according to an Averwage.com salary survey along with to data of professionals hired and fired by companies in the labor market.

Our research is based on the salaries of 1 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the District attorney

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 5.500 66.000 1.375 25
1º Quartile 0 0 0 0
Median Salary 5.500 66.000 1.375 25
3º Quartile 0 0 0 0
Higher Salary 0 0 0 0


Professional job categories

  • Science and arts professionals
    • professionals in the legal sciences
      • lawyers, attorneys, notaries
        • prosecutors and public attorneys

Related Positions:




Main workplaces

Prosecutors and Public Attorneys they work in companies and public bodies linked to the State at the federal, state and municipal levels, that is, lawyers from the Union and state and municipal attorneys, from autarchies (federal and state) and from federal foundations. At the São Paulo State Attorney's Office, after passing a public tender, it is possible to choose to act as public defender of the poor for five years, renewable or not, or to act in the state attorney's office. They are employees with a formal contract, work as a team, indoors and during daytime hours. Eventually, they work under pressure, leading to constant stress.


What does it take to work in the field of Prosecutors and Public Attorneys

The exercise of these occupations requires higher education and approval in an exam by the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) of the civil domicile status of the bachelor of law. accreditation, these professionals apply to work in public agencies at the federal, state and municipal levels.


Functions and activities of District attorney

Prosecutors and Public Attorneys must:

  • care for public property and interest;
  • provide legal advice and advice;
  • perform legally in the administrative scope;
  • act legally in the administrative scope;
  • representing the public administration in the judicial sphere;
  • performing legally in the administrative scope;
  • exercise internal control of the legality of administration acts;
  • provide legal consultancy and advice;
  • act legally in the administrative scope;
  • manage human resources and materials of the prosecutor;
  • exercise internal control of the legality of administrative acts;
  • care for public heritage and interest;
  • join processing committees;
  • manage human and material resources of the attorney;
  • manage human resources and materials of the attorney;
  • demonstrate personal skills;
  • exercise internal control of the legality of management acts;
  • representing public administration in the judicial sphere;
  • integrate processing committees;
  • integrate processing commissions;

  • Activities

    • manage material resources;
    • optimize time;
    • demonstrate attention to detail;
    • manifest yourself on the constitutionality of legal provisions;
    • propose penalization or functional acquittal;
    • signing lawsuits;
    • approve public notices and contract drafts;
    • elaborate opinions and studies;
    • demonstrate cooperation;
    • propose not to file lawsuits;
    • examine concessions and use permissions;
    • advise on international agreements, treaties and conventions;
    • monitoring the payment of precatories;
    • demonstrate specific technical knowledge;
    • pronounce on administrative appeals in bidding;
    • coordinate administrative work;
    • check the chronological order of payment of precatories;
    • manifest yourself in administrative-disciplinary procedures;
    • visit contractual instruments to be signed by the competent authority;
    • monitoring lawsuits;
    • collect tax debts;
    • participate in a support team in carrying out the auction (bidding);
    • rectify inscriptions in the active debt;
    • preparing judicial calculations;
    • update yourself;
    • participate as a processing committee member;
    • opinion on the existence of presuppositions for the practice of administrative acts;
    • perform ordinary correction on services;
    • demonstrate initiative;
    • propose penalty or functional acquittal;
    • advise on compliance with judicial and administrative decisions;
    • propose functional penalty or acquittal;
    • veto practice of illegal acts;
    • manifest yourself in administrative procedures;
    • legally guide the public;
    • articulate relations with public and private agencies;
    • demonstrate mental agility;
    • check the chronological order of payment of court orders;
    • demonstrate organization;
    • collect non-tax debts;
    • analyze draft notices and adjustments (contracts, agreements, cooperation terms etc.);
    • file lawsuits;
    • inspect the legality of the records of commercial contracts in the board commercial;
    • issue certificates of active debt;
    • resigning the right to appeal in the cases provided for by law;
    • advise the accountant on the criteria to be observed for judicial calculations ;
    • work as a team;
    • opin on the existence of presuppositions for the practice of administrative acts;
    • develop logical thinking;
    • propose rules, guidelines, measures and administrative precedents;
    • install administrative-disciplinary procedure;
    • demonstrate insight;
    • collect evidence;
    • defending in opposing lawsuits;
    • develop verbal fluency;
    • participate in public company meetings;
    • declare on the constitutionality of legal provisions;
    • opinion on the existence of assumptions for the practice of administrative acts;
    • legidly guide the public;
    • compose bidding commissions;
    • provide supplementary legal advice to municipalities and municipal councils in administrative matters;
    • chair processing committees;
    • draft expropriation decrees;
    • edit internal normative act;
    • receive deeds;
    • conduct preliminary investigation;
    • promote lawsuits to defend public property;
    • advise the executive power on legislative matters;
    • cancel inscriptions in the active debt;
    • manage human resources;
    • supervise legal services;
    • promote lawsuits in defense of public interests (environment, consumer and others);
    • establishing the composition between the parties in the judicial process;
    • register debts in active debt;
    • request suspension of proceedings in the cases provided for by law;
    • executing, with exclusivity, the active debt;
    • demonstrate written fluency;
    • demonstrate serenity;
    • conducting extrajudicial agreements;
    • establishing composition between the parties in a judicial proceeding;
    • participate as a member of processing committee;
    • check liquidity and credit certainty;
    • demonstrate reasonableness;
    • elaborate draft notices and adjustments (contracts, agreements, cooperation terms etc);
    • work as a team;
    • advise the executive power in legislative matters;
    • search for addresses and existence of debtors' assets;
    • veto the practice of illegal acts;
    • propose revision of administrative acts and contracts;
    • demonstrate individual and social responsibility;
    • exercise ordinary correction on services;
    • prepare minutes of administrative acts;
    • prepare minutes of declaratory actions of constitutionality or unconstitutionality;
    • decide on the installment of debts;
    • grant deeds;
    • advise the public administration in the preparation of contractual instruments;
    • promote legal actions to defend public property;
    • monitor privatization programs;
    • signing actions;


    Sectors that hire District attorney the most in the job market

    • wholesale new motor vehicle parts and accessories




    Featured Professions:

    Consecrated layman - Salary and Career
    ministers of worship, missionaries, theologians, and similar professionals

    Consecrated layman

    Platinum - Salary and Career
    metal and composite (thermochemical) surface treatment workers

    Platinum