President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sanctioned Law 15,436/2026, which established a minimum wage of R$5,130.63 for public teaching professionals in basic education with a workload of 40 hours per week. The former Provisional Measure (MP) 1,334/2026 was published in the edition of the Official Gazette of the Union this Friday (19).
The adjustment represented an increase of 5.4% over the previous value, of R$4,867.77 — which is equivalent to 1.5 percentage points above inflation. The new law amends Law 11,738/2008, which established the national teaching floor, that is, the minimum amount that these professionals must receive. It also updates the floor calculation.
Now, the update percentage will be the sum of the National Consumer Price Index (INPC) of the previous year plus 50% of the average, of the five years prior to the year of update, of the percentage variation in real revenue, based on the INPC, relative to the contribution of the States, the Federal District and the Municipalities to Fundeb.
The law determines that the percentage cannot be updated by an index lower than the INPC of the previous year to the update and not higher than the percentage variation in Fundeb’s nominal revenue that occurred between the two years prior to the update, including the Union’s supplements in the calculation of that variation.
If the previous calculation were maintained, the adjustment would be only 0.37%.
The minimum wage is paid by state and municipal education networks with resources from the Fund for Maintenance and Development of Basic Education and Valorization of Education Professionals (Fundeb) and supplements from the Union.
Public teaching professionals are considered “those who carry out teaching activities or pedagogical support for teaching, that is, direction or administration, planning, inspection, supervision, educational guidance and coordination, carried out within the scope of basic education school units, including early childhood education teachers”.
Proceedings in Congress
Despite having been signed by Lula in January, the provisional MP had to go through the National Congress to prevent it from expiring on June 1st. The measure was reported in a joint committee by senator Professor Dorinha Seabra (União-TO).
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As an innovation, the senator added in the report that the Ministry of Education (MEC) must annually publish the complete calculation memory used in updating the floor and that this information will be published on a digital open data platform, facilitating access and verification.
During the meeting, Dorinha argued that “no professional will receive less than the minimum corresponding to normal, mid-level training and training in terms of performance”.
The commission was installed on May 6th. It was chaired by deputy Idilvan Alencar (PSB-CE).
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