wages, whose average incomes are closer to lower middle class. The visible sign of this movement can be seen, in recent years, among others, in the halls of the airports, shopping malls, the large number of cars on the streets, in restaurants, on holiday trips.This healthy, progressive and efficient alternative for improving the incomes of the poor, driven and promoted by the countrys federal government in the last twelve years, however, is short lived. Not that it can be reversed in the short term. That is not the case. What can and probably should happen is that this alternative will not continue to have the same effect in the coming years. Inequality can cling to a lower level, but be resistant to further reductions.As mentioned above, the rigidity of the Brazilian economy in the bottleneck and hierarchy of income scales and occupation structure is an obstacle that prevents inequality reduction from continuing at the same pace as in previous years, unless the country resumes development and the process of economic growth brings the expansion of new markets, both sectoral and regional, and in this new momentum income scales and occupational structures of the new enterprises are less pyramidal and more socialized.7 - ConclusionsThis paper should be seen as a first step, in the sense that it is the first time that the methodology developed here is applied to the data available in Brazil. More comprehensive and comparable data over several years were not available at IBGE. Additional research is needed.The results found are not so surprising because other studies showed similar factors in one way or another. But they are somewhat surprising, since they are different and unconventional. Of the methodologies applied to date, the one developed here introduces additional elements of analysis that can be used to better understand the income distribution, including the observation of bottlenecks to be tackled by public policies.But since income scales and occupational structures are produced and reproduced by the market through business organizations, and they are the main villains in income inequality, from the analytical perspective presented here, the tackling of income differences and occupational stratification increasingly requires societys participation at all levels and representations.Questioning why there are so many differences between incomes and occupations, or rather, why there is so much segmentation and income and labor disparity in the market, is a right and a duty of citizens and unions. If education is a credential for entry into the labor market, but a workers skills and experience weighs more in performing work, as reported in this paper, why cant the dominant pattern of differentiation of workers productive capacity be changed?If nothing is done in this respect, income inequality in Brazil tends to remain high. The recent drop in the last decade was made possible by the inclusion of the poor who previously earned little or nothing. Public programs were timely and crucial to this end. There is not much more room, however, to continue. Either the professional and social ladder is shortened a few steps to improve income, work and living conditions, or workers