The Cuban government announced an increase of salary For a group of Education and health workers On the island.
The measure, published on Wednesday In the Official Gazetteseeks “Stimulate permanence” In these sectors, beaten by emigration and change towards other better paid tasks.
It has retroactive character as of January 1and it is announced at a time when the country suffers high inflation, as part of the severe economic crisis that manifests itself in a chronicle scarcity and prices shot.
A first resolution from the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS), extends the Additional payment for years of services provided to workers in branch schools and training centersas well as to the teaching centers or institutions legally recognized as such.
Among these centers, the norm includes the “subordinates or methodologically attended, by the organs, organizations of the central administration of the State, national entities, the administrative directorates of the popular power and other organizations.”
As explained to Granma Guillermo Sarmiento, Director of MTSS Labor Organization, this salary increase benefits “More than 5700 people and establishes a differentiation between the teaching staff and the researchers with the rest of the employees. ”
For the first – among the includes the pictures with a teaching or research category – “the increase will oscillate From 1000 to 3000 pesoson a scale that begins at five years old and reaches up to 30 ″, while beyond that limit will be increased 400 pesos per month every two years.
For their part, non -teaching staff will receive half of those benefits. That is, the progressive increase will be between 500 and 1500 pesos according to the working timeand from the age of 30 they will join 200 pesos per month in a biannual way.
The resolution also explains that this payment “is part of the basic salary of the worker to all legal purposes.”
In health
In the case of the health sector, the salary increase includes a additional payment for working during the night and on weekends and benefits the specialist doctors of Anesthesiology and resuscitation, neonatology, pediatric intensive medicine and adult intensive medicine.
The schedule contemplated to the extent covers from 7:00 pm to 7:00 am in cases from Monday to Friday, while on Saturdays they are included from noon and Sunday from 7:00 in the morning, also covering the daytime schedule.
To the above is added “Payment on top” of 20 pesos per hour “In correspondence with the working conditions required by the exercise of the aforementioned specialties.”
According to Sarmiento, with this measure, published in a second resolution of the MTSS, “More than 6800 doctors will be favored with an average 7000 pesos above your scale salary“
The standard also establishes the additional payment of the coefficient of social economic interest of the
45 % on their salary, nursing attendees They attend patients in the homes of elders, synopedagogical medical centers and psychiatric hospitals. The above translates into Around 1200 pesosaccording to the official.
The Cuban government has been establishing some specific salary increases in recent years, since the mass increase decreed as part of the failed monetary system in 2021.
However, although the state state salary It has increased Since then, that nominal rebound has been neutralized by the high cost of living and high inflation on the island.
Even, according to experts as economist Pedro Monreal so much Real wages such as real pensions have suffered a significant fall In these years when these are adjusted with the official figures of inflation, reductions that, in Your opinion“They destroy labor incentives and function as a source of mass poverty and social injustice.”
2/5 The official story that highlights the nominal increase in the average state salary is not relevant because the crucial data is the fall of the real salary when the adjustment is made by inflation and indicating the accelerated erosion of the labor incentive derived from the “order” pic.twitter.com/giwp6qy49J
– Pedro Monreal (@pmmonreal) April 23, 2025
