This is how the salaries of doctors and healthcare workers in Cuba are increasing, following the announced salary increase.
As reported in recent hours, the new resolution published in the Official Gazette includes specific increases for doctors in critical specialties and healthcare workers. However, in a context of widespread shortages, many consider it still insufficient.
Increases for night hours and high performance
Since January 1, 2025, physicians practicing in Anesthesiology and Resuscitation, Neonatology, Pediatric and Adult Intensive Medicine will receive:
100 pesos per hour for night work (7 pm to 7 am, plus weekends at specific times).
20 pesos per hour additional for high performance conditions.
These payments seek to recognize the complexity and demands of these specialties within the national health system.
Support for nursing assistants in critical care centers
A social interest coefficient of 45% on the salary scale was also approved for nursing service assistants in nursing homes, psycho-educational medical centers, and psychiatric hospitals.
This measure aims to retain key personnel in centers with high patient loads and difficult conditions.
The increase does not compensate for inflation
Despite the new payments, workers in the sector have expressed skepticism. “I work in Neonatology and I barely make ends meet,” wrote one doctor from Santiago de Cuba. Many feel the salary still doesn't reflect the intensity of the work or the real cost of living on the island.
According to the National Institute of Statistics and Census (ONEI), the average salary is currently around 4.214 pesos, but many healthcare workers—especially in the provinces—report lower incomes. Retirees, meanwhile, are demanding urgent reform of the pension system: “1.500 pesos can't even buy a week's worth of food,” commented a former healthcare worker.
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I work in the education sector and I'm working as a teacher at a pre-university school. Can anyone tell me what's going to happen to us? Because no one knows what's going to happen to us anymore.cupfrom this sector so badlyunerado and one of the most sacrificed.
I have a degree in clinical bioanalysis and I work in the emergency room at the Holguin pediatric hospital. I think it's the only one in Cuba that has just one technician for the entire hospital, and no one takes us into account. Anyone who has gone with their child knows that you have to wait quite a while.
Doctors are very important, especially those who work without expecting bribes, which are very few.
They're raising wages, but they don't agree. They want all Cubans' salaries together! All for themselves.
Also the service worker, patient care workers, such as those in admissions and filing, when will their increase be? Their monthly salary does not reach 3000 pesos.
Who says they raised salaries in Cuba? Sit in a guardhouse, a medical guard, an infirmary, a laboratory, and tell someone that it's well paid. You have to feel it firsthand, spending 24 hours on guard duty only to have to go out the next day to earn a living for your family. Because the salary isn't enough to guarantee your family three days off, plus 24 hours of work, plus education, plus all those who live off the invention because the account doesn't give them enough, but the state has left everything in the hands of Mipimes (Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises) so they can get rich, along with some TPCs. That's why the state has no money and inflation is killing the population. I know my comment won't be published, but at least one person will read it and should have the same opinion. Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to comment.
They raise salaries, they keep raising, pressure, that's not going to solve anything, we're still on top of the bank and with the rope around our necks, it was easier to lower prices and stop the explosion and the burners, I know that they have disqualified my opinion and they will not raise it.
It's true, the more they raise salaries, the more expensive products will become. No one can stand such abuse. Lower prices and raise salaries so that health and education personnel feel motivated to continue working.