Check what your employer may deduct for transport: the lesser of 6% of your basic salary or the real fare.
The vale-transporte is neither a gift nor free. The law makes the employer advance the tickets you need to get to work and back, and lets it recover part of the cost from you — but only part, and only up to a limit: 6% of your basic salary. What almost nobody is told is that the rule is a comparison, not a percentage. The employer deducts whichever is smaller, 6% of the basic salary or the actual cost of the trips, and pays the difference when the trips cost more. That word, smaller, is the whole point of this page.
It matters because the second case is common and almost never noticed. Somebody earning R$ 5,000 has a 6% ceiling of R$ 300; if the bus costs R$ 193.60 a month, only R$ 193.60 may be deducted, and the employer pays nothing towards the fare. Deduct the full 6% anyway and the company takes R$ 106.40 a month that is not its to take — R$ 1,276.80 a year — while the payslip looks perfectly normal. The same trap catches a short commute, a subsidised fare, one bus instead of two, or a few home-office days a week. So both figures appear here at the same size, with the prevailing one marked.
Two details decide the result and both are easy to get wrong. The base is the basic salary — the contract figure — with overtime, the night premium, commissions and other extras excluded by law, so a company applying 6% to your gross pay is already deducting too much. And 6% is a ceiling, never a floor: a collective agreement may set a smaller share, and the panel below takes whatever rate yours uses. The benefit is also not salary — no social security, no FGTS, no income tax, nothing towards the 13th salary or holiday pay — and it is optional, existing only once you ask for it in writing. Everything is calculated in your browser and nothing you type is sent anywhere.
Monthly transport cost = fare × rides per working day × working days in the month. Ceiling = basic monthly salary × 6%. Deduction = the smaller of the ceiling and the monthly cost. Employer's share = monthly cost − deduction, which is zero whenever the trips cost less than 6% of the basic salary. Amounts are held as whole cents and rounded half up only when displayed.
No, and this is the most common misunderstanding. The employer deducts whichever is smaller: 6% of the basic salary, or what the trips actually cost. If your commute costs less than 6%, the legal deduction is the cost — not the 6%.
The contract salary on its own. Overtime, the night premium, commissions, bonuses and hazard premiums are excluded from that base by law. A company applying 6% to your full gross pay is already deducting more than it may.
Compare the figures here with the deduction line on the payslip. If it exceeds either the actual cost or 6% of the basic salary, the difference has no legal basis and can be claimed back. Talk to HR, then to your union or a labour lawyer — this page gives you the figure to argue with, not legal advice.
Then edit it. The panel shows the year and revision date of the value in use, the rate is an editable field, and the result recalculates as you type — which is also how you handle a collective agreement that sets a smaller share. "Restore official values" brings back the original figure.
No. It has no salary nature: no social security contribution, no FGTS and no income tax, and it does not enter the 13th salary, holiday pay or the termination package.
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