São Paulo

Brazil · BRL · share price index, latest 2026-09

The city is a label: every national figure here is Brazil's own, and the cost of living is one survey's answer for one adult, with its method and its year.

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Living wage

The pay one worker needs to cover a modest budget with no help from benefits.

R$2,583.34a month · 2026

€410at the ECB's 2025 average

Monthly cost for one adult-equivalent, derived from DIEESE's family-of-four figure.

Housing: inside the total, not shown on its own: Housing is inside the total; its share comes from DIEESE's own family-budget survey
DIEESE, 2026

What the figure is made of

Food · R$922.51 · 35.7%All 10 parts

FoodR$922.51 35.7%
share from DIEESE's POF 1994/95, São Paulo, lowest income tercile, applied to the headline as DIEESE's own construction does
HousingR$658.75 25.5%
share from DIEESE's POF 1994/95, São Paulo, lowest income tercile, applied to the headline as DIEESE's own construction does
ClothingR$226.82 8.8%
share from DIEESE's POF 1994/95, São Paulo, lowest income tercile, applied to the headline as DIEESE's own construction does
TransportR$199.95 7.7%
share from DIEESE's POF 1994/95, São Paulo, lowest income tercile, applied to the headline as DIEESE's own construction does
HealthR$169.21 6.5%
share from DIEESE's POF 1994/95, São Paulo, lowest income tercile, applied to the headline as DIEESE's own construction does
Household equipmentR$143.63 5.6%
share from DIEESE's POF 1994/95, São Paulo, lowest income tercile, applied to the headline as DIEESE's own construction does
PersonalR$138.98 5.4%
share from DIEESE's POF 1994/95, São Paulo, lowest income tercile, applied to the headline as DIEESE's own construction does
EducationR$83.96 3.3%
share from DIEESE's POF 1994/95, São Paulo, lowest income tercile, applied to the headline as DIEESE's own construction does
RecreationR$31.78 1.2%
share from DIEESE's POF 1994/95, São Paulo, lowest income tercile, applied to the headline as DIEESE's own construction does
MiscellaneousR$7.75 0.3%
share from DIEESE's POF 1994/95, São Paulo, lowest income tercile, applied to the headline as DIEESE's own construction does

How it has changed since 2010

São Paulo's living wage rose 246% from 2010 to 2025, faster than prices, while what a person in Brazil spends on average rose 214%.

Each line is 100 in 2010. DIEESE's September figure for 2010 to 2026, each as it published it. It is priced on whichever capital has the dearest food basket that month, so the city behind it changes from year to year; São Paulo's is the one in 2026.

The whole record

Stock market

Not shown: the series cannot be served.

BRL per euro

5.74 reais to the euro in October 2026, still under the March 2021 record of 6.72. A rising line is a weaker real.

House prices, after inflation

5% below 2010, and still under the 2013 peak.

The economy

Inflation, one year: 5%; 2025
Average spending per person: €501 a month; 2025
Income per person, adjusted for local prices: $22,670; 2025
Unemployment: 6%; 2025
Life expectancy: 76 years; 2024

What the economy is made of

What the country produces, which is what most people there work in; not which companies move the stock market.

Services 59.7%
Industry 20.1% (manufacturing 11.8%)
Agriculture 6.1%
Taxes less subsidies 14.1%

How this is calculated

Living wage

Necessary minimum wage (salário mínimo necessário) is Brazil's own method: The wage the Constitution says a minimum wage must cover, estimated from the cost of the basic food basket scaled by food's share of family spending. Derived: R$ 7,750.01 ÷ 3 adult-equivalents. It is not interchangeable with another country's survey, which is why no other city's figure sits beside it.

Derived

R$ 7,750.01 (family of four, September 2026) ÷ 3 adult-equivalents, DIEESE's own convention

Prices

No carry-forward. The survey (2026) is not older than Brazil's latest CPI year (2025), so nothing is carried: a year of inflation not yet published is not guessed. World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL, annual average.

In euros

At 6.307167 BRL per euro, the ECB's 2025 average, the survey's figure is €409.59. ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates.

Change since 2010

Each series divided by its 2010 value. Prices: World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL, annual average. Spending: World Bank NE.CON.PRVT.CN ÷ SP.POP.TOTL, current local currency, household final consumption divided by population, per month. DIEESE's September figure for 2010 to 2026, each as it published it. It is priced on whichever capital has the dearest food basket that month, so the city behind it changes from year to year; São Paulo's is the one in 2026.

Stock market

OECD via FRED SPASTT01BRM661N, monthly, 2015 = 100, in BRL and before inflation, on a logarithmic scale: equal distance is equal percentage change. Latest 2026-09.

BRL per euro

ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates, monthly average from 1999, on a logarithmic scale. A rising line is a weaker BRL. Latest 2026-10.

House prices, after inflation

BIS via FRED QBRR628BIS, quarterly, 2010 = 100. Indexed to Brazil's own 2010, so only the direction compares across countries, never the level. Latest 2026-Q1.

Sources

DIEESE, Pesquisa Nacional da Cesta Básica de Alimentos, September 2026 · p. 4 and the São Paulo row of the capitals table · retrieved 14 Oct 2026

DIEESE, Estrutura de consumo por estrato de renda · POF 1994/95, municipality of São Paulo, estrato 1 · retrieved 14 Oct 2026

World Bank NE.CON.PRVT.CD ÷ SP.POP.TOTL, ECB annual average · World Bank NY.GNP.PCAP.PP.CD · World Bank SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS · World Bank SP.DYN.LE00.IN · World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG · World Bank NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.IND.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.SRV.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.IND.MANF.ZS · derived: 100 less agriculture, industry and services. Taxes less subsidies is 100 less the three sectors.