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Your salary is shrinking

Just enter your salary today. Using the real IPCA series, see how much purchasing power inflation has already taken — and what protects what you earn.

Your situation today

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Your salary today

In 2006 purchasing power, your salary today is worth only

R$2.026
PeriodPrices went upYour salary buys lessLike earning back then
1 year

since 2025

+5%5%
R$ 5.730

of 2025

2 years

since 2024

+10%9%
R$ 5.440

of 2024

3 years

since 2023

+15%13%
R$ 5.234

of 2023

5 years

since 2021

+33%25%
R$ 4.508

of 2021

10 years

since 2016

+63%39%
R$ 3.672

of 2016

15 years

since 2011

+131%57%
R$ 2.603

of 2011

20 years

since 2006

+196%66%
R$ 2.026

of 2006

Prices went up 196%, and that's why the same salary buys 66% less. It's the same fact seen from both sides.

The salary is always R$ 6.000. The line shows what it used to buy each year, measured in today's money — and it falls because prices went up.

Vertex

R$ 19.481

Checking account

R$ 4.508
R$ 14.974

more purchasing power with Vertex

Checking account

R$ 4.508

Savings

R$ 6.032

Bitcoin

R$ 8.529

Vertex

R$ 19.481

After 5 years, the purchasing power left

Vertex

R$ 19.481

Bitcoin

R$ 8.529

CDI

R$ 7.873

Savings

R$ 6.032

Checking account

R$ 4.508

Simulations with illustrative assumptions, for demonstration purposes. They do not constitute investment advice or a promise of returns. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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