The Ministry of Labor and Social Security published on Tuesday the corrected version of the , which establishes the new salary scales for subsidized artists in the fields of music, performances, theater, dance, circus, film, and animation.
The regulation, signed on July 15 by Minister Jesús Otamendiz Campos, was initially published in Official Gazette No. 60 on July 17, but it had to be republished in the this Tuesday because the previous edition contained "inaccurate data" that needed correction, as acknowledged by the issuing body itself.
The resolution repeals the , issued just six months earlier, on January 8, 2026, and is part of the package of Economic and Social Transformations that the regime approved to increase salaries in the budgeted sector starting from July 1, 2026.
Payments for July will be made in August 2026.
The new scale organizes salaries into groups based on complexity and differentiates the amounts according to the type of artistic grouping and the individual evaluation level of each performer.
At the highest level is the Principal Director of the National Symphony Orchestra, located in Group XXV with a monthly salary of 10,105 pesos for a 44-hour workweek.
The Deputy Director of the same orchestra reaches Group XXIV with 9,645 pesos, and the Concertmaster reaches Group XXIII with 9,265 pesos.
The soloists of the orchestra and concert band of the National Symphony are placed in Group XXI (8,500 pesos), while the instrumental musicians range between Groups XVII and XIX based on their artistic evaluation level.
For the Orchestra of the Gran Teatro de La Habana and the provincial symphonic orchestras, the principal conductors are placed in Group XXIV, while the instrumental musicians are positioned between Groups XV and XVII.
Dance artists performing in theater companies will receive a special salary treatment determined by their individual evaluation, in accordance with the Category II Collective of Dance.
The regulation also establishes that graduates of Artistic Education "once they complete six months of social service in the artistic sector, upon being evaluated, will start receiving the salary corresponding to the level achieved in the evaluation."
Workers without prior artistic evaluation or required qualifications who are authorized by the Minister of Culture will receive a salary of Group I, equivalent to 3,210 pesos per month.
An additional payment of 2,100 pesos per month is also maintained for members of professional choral groups who also serve as directors of children's choirs.
The increase is part of a broader wage adjustment that raised the national minimum wage from 2,100 to 3,210 pesos, a 53% increase, with an estimated fiscal cost of 42.5 billion pesos impacting more than a million state workers.
However, the new amounts generate skepticism among the artists themselves. The actor Roberto Perdomo revealed on July 22 that he refused to work in theater because transportation consumes almost all of his payment: he earned 4,700 pesos for four weekends of performances, while each trip costs him 200 pesos in a context where fuel on the black market reaches 6,000 pesos per liter.
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