The Ministry of Labor and Social Security published the corrected version of the this Tuesday, which establishes the new salary scales for subsidized artists in the fields of music, shows, theater, dance, circus, film, and animation.
The regulation, signed on July 15 by minister Jesús Otamendiz Campos, was originally published in Official Gazette No. 60 on July 17, but 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 the salaries of the budgetary sector starting on July 1, 2026.
Payments corresponding to July will be made effective in August 2026.
The new scale organizes salaries into groups of complexity and differentiates the amounts based on the type of artistic grouping and the individual evaluation level of each performer.
At the highest level is the principal conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra, positioned in Group XXV with 10,105 pesos monthly, working 44 hours a week.
The deputy director of that 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, depending 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 fall between Groups XV and XVII.
Dancers working in theater companies will receive a special salary treatment based on their individual evaluation, in accordance with the Category II Collective of Dance.
The regulation also states that graduates of Artistic Education, "once they have completed six months of social service in the artistic sector, upon being evaluated, will begin to receive 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 Group I salary, equivalent to 3,210 pesos monthly.
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 that would affect more than one million state workers.
However, the new amounts generate skepticism among the artists themselves. Actor Roberto Perdomo recently revealed that he refused to work in theater because transportation consumes almost his entire 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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