State Attorney - Salary and Career
Prosecutors and Public Attorneys

State 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 State Attorney earn

A State Attorney earns between $0 and $0 per month, with an average monthly salary of $6.865 and a median salary of $6.865 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 2 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the State Attorney

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 6.865 82.374 1.716 33
1º Quartile 0 0 0 0
Median Salary 6.865 82.374 1.716 33
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

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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 State Attorney

Prosecutors and Public Attorneys must:

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

  • Activities

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


    Sectors that hire State Attorney the most in the job market

    • purchase and sale of owned properties
    • general public administration




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