Municipal prosecutor - Salary and Career
Prosecutors and Public Attorneys

Municipal prosecutor - 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 Municipal prosecutor earn

A Municipal prosecutor earns between $3.071 and $11.632 per month, with an average monthly salary of $5.154 and a median salary of $4.207 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 17 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the Municipal prosecutor

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 5.154 61.850 1.289 30
1º Quartile 3.071 36.847 768 18
Median Salary 4.207 50.486 1.052 24
3º Quartile 8.871 106.453 2.218 51
Higher Salary 11.632 139.585 2.908 67


Professional job categories

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

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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 Municipal prosecutor

Prosecutors and Public Attorneys must:

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

  • Activities

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


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