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 $4.448 and $18.233 per month, with an average monthly salary of $8.218 and a median salary of $7.092 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 9 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 8.218 98.616 2.054 45
1º Quartile 4.448 53.373 1.112 24
Median Salary 7.092 85.105 1.773 39
3º Quartile 13.905 166.860 3.476 76
Higher Salary 18.233 218.792 4.558 99


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 Municipal prosecutor

Prosecutors and Public Attorneys must:

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

  • Activities

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


    Sectors that hire Municipal prosecutor the most in the job market

    • internet access rooms
    • general public administration
    • other human health care activities
    • water collection, treatment and distribution




    Featured Professions:

    Masseuse - Salary and Career
    technologists and technicians in complementary and aesthetic therapies

    Masseuse

    Andiroba cook - Salary and Career
    forest extractives of species producing fibers, waxes and oils

    Andiroba cook