In Brazil, judicial salaries exceeding the constitutional ceiling, known as supersalários, reached R$10.5 billion in 2024, marking a 49.3% increase from R$7.1 billion in 2023, according to a study by Movimento Pessoas à Frente. The average net remuneration for judges rose to R$65,531 by March 2024, with additional benefits and allowances, or penduricalhos, accounting for more than 43% of their income and projected to surpass 50%. In São Paulo, appellate court judges earned an average monthly remuneration of R$146,000 in 2025, boosted by these penduricalhos. The National Council of Justice (CNJ), which oversees the judiciary, expanded its number of auxiliary judges from 7 in 2017 to 47 in the first half of 2025 and paid R$3.4 million in extra benefits to judges in the first five months of 2025. The overall judiciary costs in Brazil amounted to approximately R$150 billion in 2023, equivalent to 1.4% of the country's GDP. The penduricalhos paid to judges in 2025 already exceed the cost of five government social programs, with 18,900 magistrates receiving more in these benefits than 5.37 million families benefiting from the government's Auxílio-Gás program.