SALARY BENCHMARKING
2024 PORTUGAL
About this report
This report includes detailed scaled salary information for industry specific full-time professional positions across Portugal.
The scope of the data is national.
The data for each position is broken down in three banding categories:
Band A → Ideal starting salary offer when stepping up into a position. Lowest end of the market’s pay norm.
Minimum experience in the position and still developing relevant skills.
Band B → Salary offer sitting within the 50th percentile; median range of the market.
The candidate has an average level of experience and has most of the necessary skills.
Band C → Top end of salary offers for hiring or retaining individuals.
Higher experience, superior skills, finer institutional/business knowledge and exceeding responsibilities. Market’s rarest resource and top talent’s worth according to market key factors and dynamics.
Salary bandings provide:
a standardised framework for setting and comparing salaries across roles and departments. help in maintaining or setting consistency in pay structure. comparison with current compensation packages against industry standards and competitors. support to remain competitive in attracting and retaining talent. predictable salary expenses and aids in financial planning and forecasting. career development and progression support by providing clear salary ranges for different levels of roles. framework for salary negotiations during recruitment and performance reviews help in maintaining internal equity
Benefits
Pension contribution:
Employers: payroll contribution equal to 26.5% of an employee’s wages.
Employees: 11% social security tax deducted from each pay check.
Worker’s compensation (social security):
unemployment sick leave
parental leave (maternal leave: 120 days to 150 consecutive days, with options for extensions; 30 days prior birth and 6 weeks post birth; paternal leave: 15 working days after birth)
orphan and widow pension
disability leave
employer’s worker’s compensation (for workplace-related accident)
Holidays/vacations:
22 working days per year
3 days sick leave
Statutory holidays: 13 days of paid public holidays
40 hours paid training per year.
Common optional & popular benefits:
meal allowance or meal voucher
health, dental, and vision insurance
additional paid time off caretaking services
transportation/transport allowance
life insurance
Distribution of the average net income
Salary difference with Lisbon:
Porto: -12.5%
Coimbra: -25.12%
Braga: -25.30%
BUSINESS PLANNING & PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
SALES & PARTNERSHIPS
PARTNERSHIPS
GLOBAL MERCHANDISING/E-COMMERCE
DIGITAL & MARKETING
LOGISTICS & WAREHOUSE
HOSPITALITY / EVENTS
HOSPITALITY / EVENTS
Positions
HOSPITALITY CHEFS/KITCHEN
HOSPITALITY CHEFS/KITCHEN
BACK OF HOUSE
Positions
HOSPITALITY – HR & TRAINING
Positions
HOSPITALITY FINANCE – IT - PROCUREMENT
CORPORATE – OFFICE