The average salary rose to 5.839 CUP in 2024, but it's not even enough to cover a quarter of the basic food basket. Inflation and the informal market offset the increase.
Wages rose, but purchasing power fell
According to the most recent report from the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI), the average monthly salary in Cuba during 2024 was 5.839 Cuban pesos (CUP). The figure represents an increase compared to the previous year, when the average was around 4.200 CUP.
However, the nominal increase does not mean an improvement in the quality of life. At the current informal exchange rate (1 USD ≈ 363 CUP), that salary is equivalent to just $16 a month, or $0,53 a day. Far from being a relief, the numbers confirm that Cubans today earn more pesos, but can buy less.
Wages lose value compared to real prices
The same official report shows that wages are not related to the real cost of basic goods. According to calculations by national economists, a basic food basket for two people in Havana costs more than 24.000 euros. CUP per month. The average salary doesn't even cover a quarter of that sum.
Rising prices for products such as cooking oil, rice, eggs, and detergent have erased any nominal gains in income. The impact of inflation, estimated at 24,88% in 2024, translates into an internal devaluation of wages, which are no longer enough to cover basic needs.
Between statistical illusion and real poverty
On social media, Cubans have reacted with irony and annoyance. Many point out that the average salary doesn't represent what most people actually earn, as the differences between sectors are vast. Highly qualified professionals, such as teachers, doctors, and technicians, barely earn more than 4.500 or 5.000 euros. CUP monthly, well below the published national average.
Furthermore, social security and tax deductions make the net salary received even lower. One comment summed up the general sentiment: “They raised my salary, but now I buy less than before.”.
The mirage of the “average wage”
The figure published by ONEI is an average, but it does not reflect the real conditions of millions of state workers. While sectors such as tourism, energy, and finance may exceed 7.000 or 8.000 CUP monthly, employees in education, health, and culture continue to have salaries that barely cover two or three essential products.
The lowest-paid workers are also those who face the highest levels of vulnerability and the least access to foreign currency. Without remittances from abroad or employment in the private sector, their daily lives depend solely on an income that loses value every month.
Raising wages without controlling prices, a failed formula
Experts point out that a wage increase without a real strategy to control prices, production, and supply of goods generates inflationary effects that ultimately worsen the problem. The informal economy is absorbing more and more transactions, and the parallel dollar is becoming the only useful reference for calculating the value of anything.
Thus, the increase in average wages announced by the government doesn't represent an improvement, but rather another figure that doesn't translate into well-being. More pesos, but less food, less clothing, less transportation, less life.
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To those who increased their salaries in 2024 because the poorest, the retirees, are kept with the miserable salary of 1,500 to 2,000 pesos, which is not enough to even eat and live poorly, and the state ignores it. It seems they want to eliminate some of the old people who have given everything for this revolution, and what a sad life we have today.
Almost all of the complaints about the salary increase, which I agree with, concern retirees, which is no less fair after so many years of working for the state. And who remembers people with disabilities, who are currently earning 1500 pesos? We fight for their inclusion in society, and from there, what happens to them? Can anyone tell me? Where are their rights? Who defends and supports them in situations like this? Because the only way to address these people is through television. If you don't believe this publication, please come to our workshop, located in Pinar del Río, the only workshop that involves people with disabilities from all associations.
They talk about the average salary😞however I work as a night watchman, in a warehouse, and my salary is $2000 pesos, when these days that is not money, I live with my mother who went blind 5 years ago 😩, her checkbook is $1528 pesos, with the two salaries together you can't buy anything today, the prices are very high, to top it off they never pay me when it is established, which is on the 20th and they pay me on the 25,27,28th, XNUMXth, XNUMXth in short whenever they feel like it😩there is no one to control anything and those who worked to have a decent retirement continue to suffer, and those like me who only live off their salary☹️this is already hell, no one can stand it.😡
There's talk of salary increases, but what about the checkbooks? There are retirees who only earn 1528, which means they can't even buy a package of chicken, for example. If they buy a pound of pork, plus rice and the necessary condiments, they'll have lunch or dinner for one day and then have nothing for the rest of the month.
Has anyone in our government thought about this?
Good morning
regarding salary
What is the average between one of 100 pesos and one of 1000 pesos?
thanks for the class
I've been working at Cimex as a cashier for over 10 years and my base salary is around 2800.
I am a public health worker, my monthly salary is 2 pesos and just a bottle of oil costs 400 pesos. What can I buy with the 1 pesos I have left? Rice, beans, chicken and seasonings are also very expensive.
24 thousand pesos when it is enough for 15 people for 2 days.
Today in Cuba, the basic needs of a home are no less than 50.000 pesos, and today the people are poorer than ever.
What's happening with the increase for retirees? We can barely survive on $1570.00 pesos a month. Seniors are already entering their 7th decade of life.
They talk about the workers whose wages aren't enough, and no one says anything about the retirees who worked for 50-something years and retired under the old law. They call them vulnerable and can't afford a sweet, a pizza, or a pound of bread.
It is a crime, not only for the health and education workers, among others, but also for the elderly who collect that miserable checkbook after having worked so hard, it is not even enough for a pound of milk. You would notice that today Cubans work for the state, out of habit, because the disenchantment is abysmal.
33 years
It's a matter of taste, the more wages rise, the more prices will rise in the market.
I am retired, I earn 1317 pesos from almost 40 years of work, they paid me only 10 years because I retired through the ONAP as a self-employed person and they paid me only the years that social security had been paid, the rest I lost. Almost 30 years.
They took me 20 years for the state and they didn't pay me anything for it.
Who answers me for this?
I DON'T KNOW WHERE THAT ACCOUNT CAME FROM THAT SECTORS LIKE TOURISM ARE AROUND 8000 PESOS. I WORK IN ISLA AZUL. I AM A PROTECTION AND SECURITY AGENT AND MY SALARY DOES NOT EXCEED 2600 PESOS, NOT COUNTING THE DEDUCTIONS FOR SOCIAL SECURITY AND OTHERS, WHICH MEANS THAT THE STAFF IN DIFFERENT PLACES CANNOT BE COMPLETED BECAUSE EVERY DAY THERE ARE MORE COLLEAGUES WHO LEAVE WORK.
Everything expressed is true. They have wanted to experiment, but no formula works for them. They don't know how they are going to solve these problems. They have no brains.
Because they say the salary is 5000, I've been here for 8 years with 1678, can you explain it to me?
You forgot to mention to the A, S, P, that we only charge 2600 pesos if you do the 16 12-hour services,
I only earn 2400, that is the real general salary, not the figure shown. It should be studied more before giving criteria.
Please don't deceive anymore
If they did the "reorganization" wrong from the start and from there until now, having enough time, they haven't fixed it, I feel quite pessimistic that they are going to fix it and I am going to surprise everyone by saying I ask for a higher amount, what I ask for is justice, not to be the object of ridicule and mockery anymore because of the amount of the retirement pension under the old law because of a botcher.
The day they fix this, I'm going to ask for it retroactively so they aren't so irresponsible, as mistakes with the use of money are quite serious.
I have no idea which sector's wages were increased, but what about retirees?
Apparently they are invisible.
That "average salary" is ridiculous, not real either.
Maybe they relied on the salaries of air traffic controllers and tobacco workers.
Although in 2024 they raised workers' salaries, which is still not enough due to the cost of products, they forgot to raise the salaries of retirees who, even though we have worked very hard and for a long time, only receive 1300 or 1750. I wonder... Would this be enough to buy a package of chicken? I don't think so 😔
My dual salary is 2945. What do I do with that? It's not enough for me. That's the monthly salary of a worker, or even less. My mother's pension is 1578.
Most retirees are well on their way.
For the retirees, tell me how you are going to do it, because I
I'm a senior citizen, and I only earn 1500 in salary. I'm an old woman who's lonely. Thank you for your information. I look forward to your response.
The salaries are not fair, since Fidel's words, to each according to his work and to each according to his ability, have never been fulfilled. It is not fair that a doctor, a teacher, a health and education professional earn less than any worker who has a 9th grade degree without any profession, of which there are thousands in this country, just because of the position they hold. It seems to me that whoever made those salaries had no idea of what they were doing. I hope that this leads to a review before we continue to lose students and professionals just because what they earn is not enough to live on and they have to abandon their profession to survive. How many professionals today are working in micro-businesses or as self-employed workers?
And retirees who earn 1520 pesos are not even on average.
A retiree who lives alone to pay for water, electricity, and telephone and earned 1528.usred can tell me what that is enough to live on and in the case of those who earn 1528, will they raise it? I await a response.
The most correct thing, I think, would be to publish in the press, on radio, television and on the networks, plans on how the salary was distributed since the economic reorganization until the current month of April. 2025AND THE DIFFERENT SALARY THAT RETIREES TREAD ON AND HOW EVERYTHING RELATED TO NON-PAYMENT TO AGRICULTURAL WORKERS AND OTHERS BEHAVES, SUCH A PRESSING DIFFICULTY AND EVERYTHING RELATED TO THIS ISSUE AND IN THIS WAY WE WOULD GAIN IN TRANSPARENCY AND IN CHANGING EVERYTHING THAT NEEDS TO BE CHANGED
Salary increase
Whatever it is, it is not enough, at least, 7 to 10 times what most workers earn; many use it to pay for electricity, gas, telephone, house, plus the Balita and where is the food? Retirees should not even think that it is a lack of respect after so many years of work that we have that salary of 1500 or 2300 and 5… Adding to what was stated above.
2+2 = ? It is no longer known how much it is.
Thank you
That is not true, where did you get that information from? Lies are short-lived, that is why this country is not moving forward. Those who are not with the system are liars, troublemakers, troublemakers, they are not serious, and above all, they do not care about helping to solve the problem because the problem is their business.
What do we retirees who earn 1500 do? Will they raise our checkbook at some point because it is more difficult for us to buy anything, whether food, toiletries, clothes or shoes?
They talk about average wages, but they don't mention retirees receiving 1610 pesos after 45 years of uninterrupted work, a university graduate, four languages, and numerous technical contributions to their profession. I've gone days without food.
just to stock up on food… we would need at least 20 thousand pesos and I think I fell short 🤔… an example a bag with 6 rolls 300 pesos and some cost more…💥… I put this simple example.. because bread 🍞 is necessary for breakfast, school snacks, etc.… then imagine a 10 pound package of chicken.. a bottle of edible oil, detergent and other essential products whose prices are through the roof ⛅….
It's the same old same old... I don't see an end to this story 🙏🤪
In Cuba, no one knows what salary is. You work a whole month for pleasure, for less than 16 dollars a month, which is not enough for anything. In a single day, you spend it and you cannot even guarantee food for a week. That is called exploitation, it has no other name.
Here, pensioners who barely receive 1500 and 2000 are not considered at all.cup monthly after having worked 30, 40, or even 50 years. They can't even eat a pizza, it's a pittance.
That analysis is real, and you don't mention the retirees who receive between 1500 and 2000 pesos a month. We are totally unprotected, and if we don't have a family member to support us... life is very difficult.
My salary is only 2000, miserable, which is not enough for even a package of chicken, if prices are not controlled, I do not know what will happen to the workers and their families, with such a salary. I am serene, which is the same as a custodian and yet the only difference between us is the salary☹️😩you cannot survive on 2000 pesos a month, not even by doing magic. Thank you for your attention.
What do you say about the pensions for retirees, which aren't even enough to buy a packet of powdered milk?
How do they say the average salary has risen, where is it and where can it be seen? I am retired, with 43 years of work when I retired 8 years ago, Master in Education, how much is my famous pension of 2300 pesos, I ask myself what I can buy, nothing, nothing, because oil is 1500 in the famous MSMEs, and minced meat is 500 pesos, which leaves me with 300 pesos and I bought it like the cucarachita Martina, nothing because 300 pesos is like saying garbage because you can't buy anything, we were the ones who gave and give everything for the Revolution, all of us teachers and all the professions come from us and that it was all worth it. It is very nice to speak from an office, our Commander Fidel Castro did not make so much noise, when a measure was taken he was always in favor of his people, those of us who are on foot, not for the corrupt who live off those who work, take up the ideas of Marx and Lenin, use them in favor of your people, the blockade exists, it is very true, but it has existed for 60 years and we were not in this nightmare, the people are the most harmed, we must leave one day without leaks of the visit and you will see how everything that is reported to you is a lie and let it be very clear that Cuba is my Homeland, my soul, my life and for it and its conquests until death.
Thanks to that scumbag called Fidel Castro, you have what you deserve today…
And you? I'm sure you receive more than you give, more than you deserve.
A vile comment to someone who offered everything for the betterment of the people.
1528 pesos isn't enough for anything. I can't buy chicken. You pay for electricity, water, and gas. We women who work 30 years. What's the lifespan of a 3-year-old person with that retirement age? Analyze this situation. And someone who lives alone would like an answer.
I believe, being convinced that the majority of the people who are scratching to survive and who walk with much sacrifice, sweat and blowing our stomachs agree with me that you can not, should not and do not have to offend or blame Fidel Castro or any of the members of the Worthy, Glorious, Honorable and Honorable Generation of the Martí Centennial of the M-26-7 because they gave their lives fighting the genocidal and criminal Batista dictatorship with its henchmen and hitmen achieving popular conquests and successes, in addition to including Fidel when they were wrong they recognized it and raised it to the people because they felt it in their own skin, heart and soul and I refer you to the visit that the Supreme Catholic Pontiff John Paul II made to us in 1998 and look for the photos and look at the face of our Commander in Chief who had lost weight, it is not fair, and compare it with the majority of the current cadres in all organizations political, mass, social, administrative, managerial, ... at all levels that have no practical results in anything nor have fulfilled any of their promises, IS NOT THE SAME, so please, respect, admiration, honor and honor for those who always respected us and always fulfilled in everything: all other criteria are accepted and agreed that we also have responsibilities by allowing individuals to represent us without results or any strategy in the short, medium or long term to begin to have positive comprehensive benefits, so we do not have international economic, financial or commercial allies because we simply do not have effective or in CUP and much less in convertible currencies for "xo for y", and we must first solve all our internal ills by changing everything that can and should be changed within our Socialist Revolution, starting with changing the majority of the cadres in all sectors and places at all levels. This writer, with the same extremely critical, complicated, complex, difficult and tough situation in which we live, will send a work in a few months to then present to us and that we have been observing for years, iscucdoing, feeling and colliding live and direct the same thing as the majority of our beloved humble, needy, working people, students, intellectuals, women, Cubans of all ages with the same feeling of Fidel and the entire Generation of the Martí Centenary of the M-26-7 without hiding or covering up even a little bit of the real truth of what the genocidal and criminal blockade of the Yankee government causes in 80%, plus the 20% caused by the errors and deficiencies of our own and mainly of those new cadres that replaced said Worthy and Glorious Martí Generation of the M-26-7: CF Estrada.
I already gave a long and respectful response to RatstSad, which must mean they're Sadistic Puppet Rats. My replies aren't published, and as soon as I click to reply, they signal "Cancel reply," so it's clear that I'm already under surveillance or hacking. Where's the "freedom of expression" they champion? Where's democracy? Fear not, we're here for whatever, however, wherever, whenever: CF Estrada. Save my replies.
That's right. We must raise the salaries of those who retired and are receiving a pension of less than 6 pesos. Now, they're retiring on 6 and 9 pesos. Those of us who earn less than that should raise their salaries because even 15 isn't enough.
We hope our government will take the necessary measures to ensure that healthcare professionals receive a decent salary, since they are performing other tasks when our people need decent care.
I don't know where they get the statistics from, the thousands of retirees in the country who only receive 1500 and something in pension, how do they survive? They don't even mention that, many go to bed with an empty stomach and I'm not saying it to write something, I see it every day in the streets, I have neighbors in that situation and I see how nothing happens that can improve the situation.
One gets tired of posting these things because they're pointless. Anyway, I'm going to say that the entire world knows that Cuban wages aren't enough for anything. Poor retirees who spent the better part of their lives working to have such a miserable old age; they can't even buy a bag of milk. And what about the workers who have to commute every day? The messages sent are in vain because no one pays attention to the people's cries.
We ask the government to assess the salaries of service personnel who have not yet received a pay raise. The minister promised a gradual pay increase last year, but workers are still waiting for it.
It is necessary that our government value the salaries of the staff of the nursing homes since there is no staff in the Laundry since the salary is 2600.00 pesos and there is never electricity and they have to wash pee and eses.
The only culprit is the dollarization of the economy. Eliminate the dollar and everything related to trade with it, and everything will return to normal. But we haven't seen the experience of other dollarized countries in the past.
But that salary is for graduates or doctors because what I earn is 3100 as a maintenance worker in a school.
It's good that they increase the salaries, but they should also increase the checkbooks, which are paid to children through the compensation fund. I am a single mother and my son is not to blame for what happened to his father and they only pay him a pension of 80. cup monthly, what food can I buy with that? The father had only been away from the state for 7 months, he fulfilled an internationalist mission in the Republic of Venezuela and was a revolutionary man by all accounts. Let's see who answers what I can buy for my son with 80. cup today in Cuba
I'm retired and widowed, and my pension is 1700. That's what electricity, water, and transportation costs. And what do I eat? Because food is what our lives are spent on. Haven't they considered that this generation of retirees, who once gave almost their entire lives for a better future, have suffered contempt and unequal hunger?
I live with 1500 what do I do with that money I wonder the whole month
I totally agree, retirees are the most affected.
And retirees, do we have to wait for death slowly?
And what do you plan to do with the retirees?
We want an answer
We know they will not give us a solution
All thanks to the reordering
What it did was further disrupt the common man.
My retirement is 1528 pesos, which will buy me how I live the last years of my life.
The life of a Cuban on the island is truly sad and painful, but even sadder is feeling unprotected by the highest authorities of the country, province, and municipality. It's feeling like nothing makes sense, and even though I'm convinced that capitalism will never be the best option, today it feels like I'm living in a fierce and brutal state of capitalism. It's truly sad to work and not have any basic needs met, and yet they still want us to contribute more...for what?!🤔, to maintain the leaders' standard of living?! 🤨...it's sad.
Who was the economist who said that in Cuba wages rose, what rose were prices and inflation at convenience. Since thanks to this it has given rise to many state businesses disguised as private ones?
What great news! Retirees are the most vulnerable, and with such high prices, they can't afford anything.
They can increase to 50000, and while the prices remain high, they do nothing, and the more you earn, the greater the deduction from the payroll percentage, which is not even understood.
The country's economic problem is the sole responsibility of a government that is economically, politically and socially broken... A government that generated more than 1 million dollars in Brazil thanks to the work done by more than 800 thousand doctors and that today tells you that they do not have money to equip the hospitals, and they say that they need more than 000 million to supply fuel to the country when the reality is that the ship that carries the most with a figure of 12 thousand barrels only costs 1 to 800 million... well the reality of the Cuban is reflected in the lies of its government... a government that does not look after the interests of its people who every day increase their misery, poverty and hunger
Keep raising salaries without economy. You keep throwing the rope at the people. Raising salaries does not solve the problem. The problem is to leave salaries where they are, so there is demand in stores, and lower prices in turn. If you are going to help the people.
In Cuba, wages aren't enough, but the situation worsens when rice is scarce. In Cuba, rice shouldn't be scarce. Cuba is a fertile country, and rice is planted with water and sprinkled with pinillo powder, as they call fertilizer in Pinar del Río, nothing more. I don't understand how the country is going to spend foreign currency buying rice abroad. The Arabs pour water into the desert to plant, and we have good soil and we're unable to plant rice. God gives a beard to those who have no jawbone. Let's reflect on this, among many other things.
We are a family of five. A 2-year-old girl, a 9-year-old boy, and a 12-year-old boy, and my wife. The only source of income is my own, and I received a fortnightly salary of 5700 pesos. However, with the lack of rice, you have a bigger problem. Added to this problem is the lack of bread, which has been going on since the beginning of the year.uneThere's no flour in Havana, I don't know in the country, but yesterday, Saturday, I bought some simple food for Saturday's lunch. Two packages of spaghetti 240 each, total 500, of course the Sazón 55 pesos each, total 110 pesos, a pound of picadillo 270 pesos for the day, since there's no bread, two packages of cookies 130 pesos each and a lollipop 40 pesos. Total spent 1010 pesos and I got paid 5700 pesos for the two weeks, this money lasts me a week, the next week God gives me in many possible ways. Oh, the baby hasn't had milk in 8 months, before they gave her a pound every 10 days, now for the last 8 months it's been a pound a month when she comes. Yesterday, Saturday, I picked beans and peas, but there's no rice. They owe us 5 pounds per person for the month of March. The rice is late, and we're almost entering May because there's nothing for April.
This is about the average salary of active workers, but what about retirees?
My salary is 1528,28. What can I do with that? Not even buy a package of chicken, not even a pair of shoes, not even pay the electricity bill. What can I do? Can you explain to me, please?
I think there is a mistake because the minimum wage in Cuba is 2600 pesos. It is the salary of a driver of a light truck and of a security and protection officer who is cared for by the state and does not pay him well.
I totally agree, my case is that I am a teacher and my salary is not enough for anything, if they had increased salaries they would have kept the same prices or raised them in line with the minimum wage today, for example, a worker or pensioner earning a thousand pesos and something has to choose what to buy, if they buy oil they cannot buy rice or another basic product because really all the prices are very high and they talk a lot but specifically I have not seen this situation resolved while the population remains upset and dissatisfied because they are not taken into account, we have to turn this around and start acting but really with a firm hand and it is real there are people who are going to bed with an empty stomach and there was a lot of struggle to eradicate those things here in Cuba and horrors are being seen
Five thousand pesos average salary?
I don't know where that famous increase is; what I do know is that we retirees are starving to death, and the government is doing nothing. It's as if they want all of us old people to just die; while they get fatter every day.
Why don't the two comments I made appear, or is it that my frankness doesn't suit someone?
When will we, civil servants, be able to count on a shameful raise, at least to improve the last years of our lives? The Far and the MININT (Ministry of National Defense) have had their pensions raised two or three times, and these are pensioners who leave early and then are given the best jobs, always as bosses or civil servants, so they can double or triple their income after having spent most of their lives as parasites of society. And the unfortunates who lost our health, youth, and lives working like nothing to this society, aren't even considered enough to give us a free SAF (Spanish Social Security System).
Unfortunately, the salary increase is not going to solve anything, in fact it will make it worse. In my opinion, what the government should do is put on its pants and systematically put an end to the abusive prices, putting a stop to the unfortunate intermediaries and swindlers, among them state companies and services that are in competition with the bandits. The laws must be respected and the institutions in charge of them must be the ones that demand them without any kind of paternalism. If salaries go up, then the thieves and criminals that we have dressed as respectful businessmen will raise the prices and the people will always continue to be screwed. Put the MININT and the state inspectors to comply with what is established and earn their already decent salaries well, enough is enough of state stupidity and take a firm hand with the abusers, confiscate everything if they violate the prices taken and no more multipliers, jail, jail so they are not so abusive with the people, incredibly, people who have been working continuously for more than 50 years do not even have a bicycle or a decent old age and yet a battalion of lazy people who have contributed absolutely nothing to this society, are driving around in the latest model cars and their children with good motorcycles and the family with an incredible standard of living, where is socialism and social equality, who carescupto solve this problem, or is our socialism one of every man for himself? We talk about the historical legacy as crude politicking, but we are mocking and disrespecting the memory of Fidel Castro and the thousands of Cubans who fell during continuous stages to preserve our social system and our socialism, put a stop once and for all to the criminals who live exploiting the humble people and do not bother so much inventing formulas and political speeches that do not solve anything.
and when are they going to increase it?
To those who retired from retirement before, after 35 years of responsible work and together with my husband's pension, my retirement is 1678 pesos, not even enough to buy milk.
An increase in salary will only cause the prices of products to increase and maintain the same level of inequality, hunger, of dissatisfied people. Please, this does not improve the image of the government before the people. The government must think and adequately plan each step it will take. If tourism, due to the entire blockade situation, no longer gives what it used to, then it no longer represents the locomotive of the economy and must go in another direction. We must invest in food production to reduce imports. We must stop taking actions that do not increase our economy. If they are now making corrections, then they should think that when a delegation leaves, the necessary number should go and increase the work of those who are already on the payroll doing business abroad. This government needs to focus on tasks related to food and gradually increase work activities in other areas of our economy. Not everything that is talked about in the highest spheres of this government is fulfilled in the line of fire and we must stop being supported by the blockade. Cuba has been blockaded since the triumph of the Revolution, which has different values, the blockade, if possible. But it has also worked with poorly conceived strategies. We must stop being in the superstructure and come to the street.
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Those are the salaries; the pensions are worse. With a degree and MSc, 48 years of work and a mission in the Russian Revolution during the war, my pension is 2400 pesos. My wife, also a graduate, earns 1600. It's known that to get by for a month, without luxury or a trip, this represents a fifth of what's necessary.
Listen to me, it's disrespectful to say that the average salary increased in 2024, when those five thousand pesos of salary are not even for professionals: economists, accountants, lawyers. Only the workers of the Castro Military Oligarchy have good salaries, where a Black Beret soldier and police officers earn more than a doctor, in addition to all the perks, benefits and gratuities, with very high salaries for the military and Castro elite. Not to mention the pensions of retired professionals of all specialties with 2500 pesos and in my case with 5158, because I worked for the last three years in a SA Contractor of a new Investment Cemento Moncada, if I had stayed in the Mintur where I worked for 25 years and I was Manager of an International Law Firm and Lawyer for Cubanacan and Horizontes Hotels, with income in those years of more than 50 thousand USD per year and I was paid 500 pesos, true exploitation. Damn, when are they going to raise the pensions of retirees, whoever doesn't have FEM family abroad, Que Manden is screwed today, I spent 4 pesos at the Agricultural Fair on Avenida de Céspedes, thank God that I sold the family home so my children could leave this hell and they are free in Quebec and Tampa, but the prices are criminal, there are no inspectors and the hucksters hoard and resell everything, the MypriME businesses are door to street, just like a liter of oil costs 657, hidden, Marrero and his henchmen are swindlers, everything is a vindictiveness and the people have to fight, show off, huckster and resell. But the big reveal is that no one says anything and the love is over, everything is admitted and the hungry masses are silenced; today they are deporting REPRESSORS AND THIEVES from Yuma, what a double-faced morality Cuban society has, retirees all over the world receive monetary improvements and here not even a machete, nor do they have their foot stuck all the way to Home, only United the Old will be heard, Pa La Calle
We retirees, who are the most vulnerable, are not even mentioned in the salary increase, and we hardly have time left to see an improvement.
My name is Ángela María Perea Rondón. I retired due to illness seven years ago, having worked 7 years to date. The amount the system determined was 37 pesos. I live alone and wanted to give up this checkbook and return to work, but my certificate from the expert commission gave me 1733. In these seven years at home, I've had two heart attacks, with stroke and thrombosis.
How can we live on this payment, to cover our food and medicine needs if it is not even enough to buy bread?
It's all very well, but I know we have to produce more. That's how we know prices will come down, and when will retirees? Who will live on 1500 or 2500? They're driving us into misery...
I think that before increasing, many aspects of the economy should be reviewed. Increase equals discontent because if there is no state supply with affordable prices, inflation will never end. In addition, economists have been left without importance and only want to be individuals.
There is talk of salary increases, but no one pays attention to pensions, which are too low at 1528.00 or less, which is not enough to cover the rising prices.
We worked for many years and we were useful at that time.
Now that we need the fruits of our labor, we find ourselves in very low positions that are not enough to live on.
It is good that they will analyze the retirees.
Greetings.
Why raise wages? If this is worse than a nuclear bomb, raise wages, increase prices, and increase hunger. Misery and corruption without control are not worth it. The people remain oppressed and without a solution. Use your brain and analyze everything we are experiencing.
It is necessary to review the pensions of retirees, especially those who earn less than a thousand pesos.
These pensions are barely enough for medicines.
This pension range includes a large number of older adults who, in their working years, gave their all for our revolution.
What needs to happen here is for all those in power to leave power, so that their big belly, starting with Canel and Marrero, will go down, to see if we retirees improve. They're just blah blah blah.
What increase are you talking about when, for example, I am retired and my salary is still 1,665 pesos a month. They may have raised what they work for, but for us retirees, we are still just as screwed.
But who got their salaries raised? Well, there are retirees here who earn 1500 pesos and that's not enough for them at all. They said that the salaries of retirees on television were more than 2000 and it's a lie.
I wonder where they got that information that the average salary is around 5839.00, because as far as was known it was 3500.00 and out of nowhere I see this note with an increase of 2000 and so many pesos, the truth is I don't know where it came from, but even so with that you can't live in this country and everyone knows it and nothing is done every day the most difficult thing are the most expensive products and who cares about that and outside of that nothing more but there is food, the lack of medicines, the lack of electricity and everything is to resist with optimism and creativity but please until when.
All I wish is that things improve so that the people have a quality of life, that they regulate prices and that the salaries of all the workers who honor the country with their daily efforts increase.
The first solution is to lower prices and suspend the patents of those who fix prices, and also to control the inspectors general, who are the ones who allow all these incitements because their food is free.
Salaries may have gone up, but we retirees are still receiving the same pensions, starving and suffering from many needs, with prices that are rising daily.
When iscucWhen I talk about the average salary in Cuba, it surprises me. This nation is black and our salary is over 1600 pesos. I believe that we are alive thanks to the mercy of God, and we are weak, sad, hungry, and with our hearts broken.
We're even missing the bread.
Why do we want wages to go up if what we really need is prices to go down?
Salary increase is ok, and the retirees who worked 39 years, suffering with transportation and many other things, can die, because they don't recognize that, and the salary earned as a retiree is not even enough to buy medicine, which of course, we have to buy at street pharmacies at incredible prices, because the pharmacy doesn't deliver anything, I even had to buy a syringe to get some tests done, I'd better not continue commenting.
Either we don't have economic experts, or those who do exist don't understand economics, because what really makes things work is a match between supply and demand.
You can pay a worker 1 million pesos and if there is no supply, demand forces prices to rise.
I am not an economics nurse, but it is the ABC of economics.🤦🤦🤦
The salary of retirees 1578 is not enough to eat, much less to live, prices increase daily and we have no options because we are older adults.
very nice and we retirees who earn 2200. after working so many years what….
There is a lot of talk about average wages that is a big lie disguised those who earn more than 5 thousand pesos many from micro and small businesses the army the ministry of nationality the far but there are still more missing those who earn less the majority and not to mention the retirees die with that salary and gave their entire lives working for this country to then retire with an anemic salary that is not enough to say I pay the other and they know it individuals sell behind the curtains chicken oil milk super expensive and they do not have or respect capped prices if you do not look in Marianao the new micro and small businesses how they sell and you will realize what I am saying and not to mention when they talk about inspection they hide almost all the merchandise and some close that day and you think they do not see it mainly the local governments but what do they care about that recently the central government visited them and had the nerve to say that it is progressing what did they see to say that word progress Marianao it is going from bad to worse they do not put in a worker that is worth the work or jobs for society without taking into account knowledge, only chains, rings and very portentous with our commander Fidel, that did not happen, they would have already left the air, everyone reconsider, there are still people who feel for this country but we are losing them because of the way leaders without love for the revolution, stuffed into their positions and putting in cadres that they no longer know what to do with, go to the municipal councils and you will see, investigate, a total disgrace.
With good reason, the salary goes up a little and food prices increase too much, that for a month about 30 thousand are needed for 3 people and the rest of the health sector is being affected, employees are leaving their jobs, education is running out of teachers in Santa Clara, the Ernesto Che Guevara Cardiocenter Hospital, one of the most important in the province, has no employees, it is running out of workers, whether they be workers at the sterilization center, cleaning assistants, guards, laundry workers.
Some schools no longer have teachers, children are being sent home due to a lack of teachers, everything is horrible here in the province of Santa Clara, we are losing state workforce and although doctors and nurses are earning more than 10 thousand, it still does not cover them.
Not to mention the pensions or retirements that are below 2000 pesos, which means that there is a high percentage of the population that has been aging, estimating that 20 percent or more is unprotected or, better said, in misery.
The salary of retirees remains the same, a retiree who earns 1528... what does he eat... the one who should get a raise is the retiree... years of work to earn... what, and what does he eat... thanks
The Public Health salary only reaches the sector's own salaries, but not the service personnel.
Salaries and pensioners are rising, for example my pension is 1175cup, my retired mother 1578cupShe has been bedridden for 3 years and can't walk. I have to buy diapers, I CAN'T ENOUGH!!!!!
No sir, there are people who count 3400, which doesn't even give us enough to start with.
They talk about average wages but not about low wages, they never mention them.
I am a teacher, I have worked at Formatur all my life.
10 years and for seniority education does not recognize this, nor 15 years as an adjunct professor at the University Headquarters, as well as the teaching category because it is from the University
What can I say about retirees who have worked all their lives? I have also been working for 37 years and my pension is 1 Cuban pesos.
I don't know where the increase is, I'm still earning 2420 since the salary change until now.
Without words, simply like a crab; God didn't want it, it's the prevailing system and the blindness of years in power (a few enjoy it, many others wait for solutions that never arrive)
The situation of poverty and hunger is terrible; the salary is not enough even for one day.
As long as the CPA Authorized Passive Corruption exists
The situation is not resolved; each step taken opens the way for a new illegal business protected by those who are paid to combat it.
totally agree
Exactly, when the reality is different, I am an education worker and I really can't count on my salary for anything because I earn less than 3 thousand since they deduct taxes because my salary is 3 thousand and so much that I never see it, it's barely enough for me to even buy a package of chicken.
Purchasing power demonstrates the inefficiency of wages here.
I am retired, what more can I tell you?
The first step is to lower prices, starting with what the state sells, which is very important, and then raise pensions, retirement benefits, and minimum wages.
Curb theft in factories and workplaces where merchandise is available, and punish those who steal when purchasing.
Good evening, not everyone earns that kind of money. I'm a retired education worker and a widow. My monthly salary is 2500 after working for almost 40 years and having served on an international mission in Nicaragua for two years. The salaries of retirees need to be reviewed. Thank you.
They won't review it, it's that simple... my parents, retired from education with more than 40 years of uninterrupted work, if it weren't for me and my friends, would be in misery.
They are not going to check anything
I SEE SALARY INCREASES AND THOSE OF US WHO RETIRE ONLY RECEIVE A PENSION OF 1528.00 CUP AND OTHERS A LITTLE MORE, HOW ARE WE GOING TO SURVIVE ALL OF THIS.
NO ONE LIES TO US AND WE ARE NEEDY PEOPLE, AS WELL AS ELDERLY.
DO WE NO LONGER COUNT IN THIS COUNTRY FOR THE GOVERNMENT???