Monthly Survey of Industrial Employment and Wages
Salaried Employed Personnel (POA)
Total salaried persons in activity (paid by hour or month) in the last day of the survey's reference month, with or without a formal contract, permanent or temporary, attached or not to the production process.
Hirings (ADM)
Total salaried persons hired during the survey's reference month.
Separations (DES)
Total salaried persons separated from their companies during the survey's reference month (layoffs, on legal grounds, resignations, by agreement, retirements, deaths, etc.).
Number of Hours Paid (NHP)
Total number of hours paid to the Salaried Employed Persons - including overtime - during the reference month, even when absent for a period no longer than 30 days. Indicators for the number of hours paid per salaried person are also estimated and presented as Average Number of Hours Paid.
Value of the Payroll (VFP)
Total value of the Payroll of the salaried employed persons for the reference month, including: contract wages, overtime pay, 13th wage, compensation at the end of contracts and indemnities, commissions and percentage payments and share of profits.
The Payroll is presented in four categories: Value of the Nominal Payroll; , Value of the Average Nominal Payroll (payroll divided by the number of salaried persons); Value of the Real Payroll (deflated); and Value of the Average Real Payroll (deflated and divided by the number of salaried persons).
Turnover Rate (TxR)
This is the ratio between hirings and separations in the survey’s reference month and the total number of salaried employed persons in the immediately previous month, multiplied by 100. The rate accounts for the percentage of the number of workers substituted for others in the total amount of workers.
Hiring Rate
This rate corresponds to the ratio between hirings in the survey’s reference month and the total number of salaried employed persons in the immediately previous month, multiplied by 100. It accounts for the percentage of the number of hired workers in the total amount of workers.
Separation Rate
This rate corresponds to the ratio between separations in the survey’s reference month and the total number of salaried employed persons in the immediately previous month, multiplied by 100. It accounts for the percentage of the number of separated workers in the total amount of workers.
Displacement Rate
This rate corresponds to the ratio between the sum of hirings and separations in the survey’s reference month and the total number of salaried employed persons in the immediately previous month, multiplied by 100. It accounts for the of entry and exit flows of workers in the workplace, that is, the amount of people who changed their places of work or whose employment situation changed between a t period and a t-1 period.