The new salary regulations in Cuba's health and education sectors will be implemented gradually, in order to guarantee "stability in the budgeted sector."
This was confirmed by Mirelky González Pérez, head of the Department of Organization and Work Safety of the Provincial Directorate of Labor and Social Security of Sancti Spíritus, to the local radio station.
"These measures are aimed at employees of educational centers, teaching centers, branch schools, and training centers, as well as institutions recognized as such and subordinated to or methodologically managed by the bodies and agencies of the Central State Administration, national entities, and directorates of the People's Power Administration," he explained.
The directive clarified that this is Resolution 4 of the 2025, which contains new provisions for the National Health System and seeks to “encourage the permanence of National Health System workers.”
Cuban government confirms gradual implementation of salary incentives
The regulations detail salary incentives, the amount per hour for night shifts, and the approval of a payment for high performance in functions requiring specialization, especially in the areas of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation, Neonatology, and Pediatric and Adult Intensive Care Medicine.
In addition, an additional payment is authorized through a social interest coefficient on the salary scale for workers such as nursing service assistants. This is also true for those dedicated to caring for patients in nursing homes, psycho-educational medical centers, and psychiatric hospitals.
New salary measures in Health and Education in Cuba:
Additional payment for years of service in education and teaching centers:
Teaching staff and researchers:
- 5 years: 1,000 pesos per month
- 10 years: 1,400 pesos per month
- 15 years: 1,800 pesos per month
- 20 years: 2,200 pesos per month
- 25 years: 2,600 pesos per month
- 30 years: 3,000 pesos per month
- Starting at age 30, the rate increases by 400 pesos every two additional years.
Rest of the workers:
- 5 years: 500 pesos per month
- 10 years: 700 pesos per month
- 15 years: 900 pesos per month
- 20 years: 1,100 pesos per month
- 25 years: 1,300 pesos per month
- 30 years: 1,500 pesos per month
- Starting at age 30, the rate increases by 200 pesos every two additional years.
Salary measures for doctors of critical specialties:
Anesthesiology and Resuscitation, Neonatology, Pediatric and Adult Intensive Care Physicians:
- 100 pesos per hour for night shifts (7 pm to 7 am, Saturdays from noon and Sundays from 7 am)
- 20 pesos per hour for high performance
Additional pay for nursing assistants:
Nursing assistants in nursing homes, psycho-educational medical centers, and psychiatric hospitals:
- 45% additional on the salary scale.
All these measures have retroactive effect from January 1, 2025.
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The idea is good and I think it is very little what they are being paid for the hard life we lead today. I would like to know when the salary will be raised for security and protection agents in this country, we are never taken into account, since we are the ones who take care of the state's assets and resources, these workers are never considered, whether it is a holiday or under any weather condition we must provide our services, and they never look at us regardless of the sector. I clarify that I work in a budgeted or company since in either sector or place we are covered by scale 6 of the salary system, I think they should value us. If we are from a company, we are not paid profits or anything, that is, we sadly earn 2600 pesos and that's it.
And the pensioners who are currently the most vulnerable and the most affected and who gave everything for the development of this country and who faced a fervent period of harvests, contingent voluntary work, etc....when?
This service-based scale has been paid since the end of last school year and the beginning of this one in schools. This is nothing new for teachers.
This is sad news. It seems like an encouragement, and complaining is useless.
Let's see: the worker is paid a small raise, and a tax is levied on their salary, leaving them without the agreed-upon amount in the contract. If it's $7200, they're only paid about $6750, and there's a difference of about $450, which translates into bread costing $25 and up to $35 on the street. Add in the high price of groceries (plantains at $60 and up to $80 a pound), pasta (spaghetti at $290 or $300), and cooking oil (at $1000 or $1150).
MSMEs don't care whether the worker's salary is enough or not: MSMEs just want their money, and that's it.
This, without taking into account electricity, the disappearance of liquefied gas, telephone, water, urban transport, etc. Add in the medical abuses: you have to carry a scalpel, gloves, anesthesia, and at the rate we're going, we'll have to bring a doctor too.
It's sad that public workers like teachers or doctors are treated as almost beggarly workers, even though they are university-educated professionals who lack the dignity of a salary that meets their expectations, nor do they enjoy the social prestige they deserve.
The other thing is that every time their salaries are raised, retail prices skyrocket almost automatically, as if authorized by the government, and no one controls them. Who benefits from so much professional and financial disarray?
We blame the US embargo for everything that is done wrong in Cuba due to the negligence of government authorities. If we think that by making these complaints we don't solve anything, much less have the rulers solved anything in more than 6 years of administration with all the agreements and visits they have made to countries like Russia, Turkey, China, etc. Not a single trade and financial agreement that has been made since 2022 has resolved anything, so why so many agreements, contracts and agreements with other countries in economic and commercial matters, if in no store in MLC or USD can buy anything?
Inflation, lies, manufactured crises... and then the rulers get offended when the truth is thrown in their faces. Do the Minister of Education or the Minister of Health suffer from blackouts like the rest of the Cubans? Or do they wake up with nothing to eat, or wait in long lines at markets to go home empty-handed?
Please, let's be more realistic and less deceitful to ourselves.
I think the best solution is for the government to resign and for someone who knows about economics to lead the country.
Very good comment
It's not worth responding to traitors and mental mercenaries like you. I'll just tell you that despite your genocidal masters, we are here resisting with a thousand difficulties and we will be there for your sorrow and anger.
The idea is very good, but what about the retirees who worked so many years and now get paid 1500, which we know is not enough for anything and they are going through many hardships?
The idea is very good, but what about the retirees who worked so many years and now get paid 1500, which we know is not enough for anything and they are going through many hardships?
The idea is very good, but what about the retirees who worked so many years and now get paid 1500, which we know is not enough for anything and they are going through many hardships?
That news is from now because I think it's old.
This increased by year of service, I mean by seniority.
I would love to meet the brilliant mind behind such salary reforms. I consider it a mockery of healthcare workers in general. We are all working in the most shameful and inhumane way ever seen in the Cuban healthcare sector. Everyone equally deserves salary reform.
good afternoon
In my opinion, all workers deserve to be recognized and benefited.
With the new salary increase, everyone is important.
for example, colleagues
from the sium the paramedics to which I belong
Because they don't take us into account, we are frontline workers and high risk workers, also 24-hour jobs.
Nobody talks about the sacrifice of the paramedic who never stops providing service in the ambulance.
without any rest
We only received a salary of 3700 cup what is insufficient to be able to live and support a family
I work because I love my profession but I don't see any reflection in my profession.
as if nobody cared about us
I think they should analyze this
when there is an accident who is present
who transfers patients to the hospital
those who spend sleepless nights on the run, transported them and saved lives
Or is it that we don't know emergency workers?
Because paramedics are not only drivers but also comprehensive paramedics.
Thank you very much, I think we deserve it.
also be recognized and valued for our work
With all due respect to these workers, I agree, as do the rest who are not in these sectors.
Bt
I am a health expert and what we all need is not more raises.
If not lower prices, increase the supply of basic products. That measure has been taken several times, and it solves nothing.
So the other health workers do not consider them as health workers, when many work harder and in more critical conditions than any of those who are going to give them an increase.
PLEASE THINK A LITTLE BETTER AND BE MORE HONEST
But they never took into account the years of seniority of the secretaries of polyclinics and hospitals.
The secretaries of the courtroom spend all day non-stop and only get paid 2400. That's unfair.
But also other health workers who are not technicians or doctors, such as secretaries who did not take into account the seniority they had worked in the sector for years.
Now with that, prices are going up even more.
MORE OF THE SAME, A PIECE OF Crap STUFF ON A STICK. THEN THEY RAISE YOUR PAY BY 500 PESOS AND INCREASE THE WAGE TAX THAT NO ONE KNOWS WHERE IT GOES.
The idea is very good, but it won't solve any problems. Teachers don't work, and doctors are out of the question, because the scarcity of resources and the worsening situation we live in today are desperate and inhumane. This can only be solved by lowering prices to the level we used to live in. I congratulate the person who came up with the idea, but he should reflect and think about the miserable pensioners under the old law, who worked so hard and now can't even buy toilet paper with 1500 pesos. This is an arbitrary punishment that will lead us to death.
The idea is very good, but it won't solve any problems. Teachers don't work, and doctors are out of the question, because the scarcity of resources and the worsening situation we live in today are desperate and inhumane. This can only be solved by lowering prices to the level we used to live in. I congratulate the person who came up with the idea, but he should reflect and think about the miserable pensioners under the old law, who worked so hard and now can't even buy toilet paper with 1500 pesos. This is an arbitrary punishment that will lead us to death.
And when will it be for us metalworkers?
..And what about the retirees? We are not in the social interest...how barbaric!
Retirees who die, who cares? 40 years of service and they pay 1500. What do I do with that? If only the medicines cost a fortune because there isn't any and eating, this world is far away, nobody cares about anything. Optimum or do we already live, the old ones for Tonga? But yes, we help a lot, this revolution and if they work like this, my colleagues are a waiter being me, I would like to see them with that salary, let's see what they would do.
And to the RETIREES, who worked so many years, not only at work, but also cleaning the sugarcane, in the tobacco industry, and wherever we were called, with the sole interest of supporting whatever was needed when we needed an improvement.
Even if salaries rise, if the state does not meet the population's demands, inflation will be higher, as it was in years past. This salary increase in two sectors will be for nothing. What will the sectors that did not receive a salary increase, plus the pensioners, do? This is not a measure to retain personnel in health and education; the deterioration is in all state sectors.
When are they going to raise the salaries of retirees who cannot afford it?
Think kindly of the retirees, no one can even feed themselves on 1528.00.
You are never
Never
How long will things continue like this? I'll tell you what's going to happen: now, all doctors, regardless of whether they're mediocre, don't do their job, mistreat patients, know nothing about their job, or are professional, will collect all the incentives as if they fully complied with the rules imposed for payment.
How do I know? I'm an accountant, and I've seen how the laws of the Human Resources Department are applied for as long as I can remember.
Unfortunately, not all doctors are the same.
Unfortunately, it's likely that the best and perhaps most highly qualified doctors will be the ones who will face some obstacles to receiving this increase.
Unfortunately, cronyism and being affiliated are the norm here, rather than actually being deserving of the incentives.
The same thing happens in education... tell me: how can we evaluate a teacher and threaten their salary if they don't have a high passing rate? What do you think that teacher will do? Pass them all even if they don't know a thing! A salary is the breadwinner of their household, and you don't play with that!
It's great that they're raising salaries in the health sector (they should be raising them for everyone because the rubbish they pay isn't enough for any family), but I don't think they'll solve the lack of professionalism that prevails in all of the island's health centers.
real and also the doctors not only recupwere to the patient.
It is nursing and nursing graduates who are in charge of the hardest work, so they do it and nursing doesn't... they will soon be left without the little they have...
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Never
When are retirees getting a raise?
so:
Anesthesiologists' salaries are raised for critical specialty (well deserved) but the anesthesiologist gives "anesthesia" to a patient in a "critical" place so that who can work?
So, surgeons, orthopedic surgeons, and other surgical specialists, enter to operate in a "capsule" or type of diving suit?
Whoever dictated this has not the slightest idea about this monstrosity.
and it hurts like the minister, being a doctor, makes Mutis.
Everyone to the square!
So if they charge double for anesthesia, then they should operate. They spend their time sitting, while the surgical specialists stand in front of the patient. I think it's very fair that they pay them double, while we're left in the air... so after 7 pm, they should operate anesthesia.
About salary increase
The government thinks that the other workers in this country live off the handouts they are paid.
About salary increase
The government thinks that the other workers in this country live off the handouts they are paid.
What I don't understand is that I don't see anywhere the production that justifies this increase; as happened in 2013, prices will automatically increase.
We're making progress, and that hurts them. Mind you, I'm one of those who wish I could. lol
and the retirees?
And what about state employees in commerce who earn a pittance of 2540 pesos, below the poverty line, a poverty wage?
There is no mention of retirees from the educational sector, do not forget the retirees who remained in that sector for years, thank you.
Please, this news is old news. Complete the process and raise the salaries of those in the health and education sectors. No more delay.
Choose other organizations and do the same.
Remember the retirees, they're worse off than everyone else. Thank you.
Everything is fine except for the radiology staff who work in the hospital and have to go to all the places in a hospital, whether to therapy or to a room to perform any study while receiving radiation.
Hopefully, the solution to the problem of healthcare personnel not staying in their sector would be a pay raise.
The economy works on the relationship between supply and demand; if there is no supply, products become more expensive, and it's just for fun.
If they keep raising salaries, without an economy to support them, prices will continue to rise.
Everything is fine except for the radiology staff who work in the hospital and have to go to all the places in a hospital, whether to therapy or to a room to perform any study while receiving radiation.
What a lack of respect and they are not ashamed to say that
to some yes and to others no
Where are the nursing staff who are the EVERYTHING of a polyclinic hospital or any health area...do nursing graduates study for 5 years just for fun?
THAT SAVE LIVES…
THAT'S WHY THEY WILL BE LEFT WITHOUT ANYONE, THERE IS NO SALARY TO COVER THE NEEDS OF HEALTH WORKERS...WORDSLESS.
Good morning, you'll have to consider raising the salaries of service workers because they could leave at any moment. They've never remembered them. They work for 2800, which isn't enough for anything. The hospitals are running out of service workers.
The saddest thing is that retirees in the health and education sectors, who have worked for more than 40 years, still have checkbooks that are barely enough to survive.
Likewise, my retired colleague from the health sector, I believe that what we have is provided to them by health care, just like everyone else. It seems that retirees no longer matter to this K government. Fidel, the Commander-in-Chief, is no longer with us. It's harsh, but it's the truth.
That's great, well deserved. They need to analyze the situation of retirees before the reform. That is to say, the oldest people who retired more than five years ago only averaged between 5 and 1000.00 pesos in retirement; that's enough for medicines alone. When are they going to bring that figure closer to that of retirees after the reform?
You are absolutely right, Ivett. There is a huge and unjustified gap between pensions granted before the Ordinance and those granted afterward. This is a "distortion" that must be urgently corrected.
And the rest of the health workers do not have the right to the new salary measures or perhaps the doctors, technicians and nurses are the ones who do everything in the different areas of health. Last year the salary and seniority of all the Education workers were increased without any kind of distinction, however in health it was for the upper class as they say in good Cuban and the rest of the workers are nobody, I give you an example who is orcupfor cleaning or distributing food or taking care of the security of a health entity, do an analysis in this regard because no one remembers us. I hope to get a satisfactory answer.
That's very good, but who remembers the rest of the workers? For example, the service workers and non-mainstream technicians who have been in the economy and HR department for over 30 years, who work Saturday and Sunday nights, and this is not taken into account, in addition to doing the work of 2 or 3 people, because people no longer want to work for a salary that is not enough for anything. I hope this situation is analyzed and we get a response.
And when we retire, we earn very little, it's not enough to live on. I work for 44 years, 1628. That's not a salary for anyone. I live alone and the household expenses are not enough for anything. I am 70 years old, diabetic, and impertensive.
And won't the cleaning assistants benefit? Because they deserve it too.
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Even being a teacher and caregiver
It will not increase its workers
When will they remember the unfortunate pensioners and retirees? 1500 isn't enough for anything; they survive by God's mercy. It's sad to see them malnourished and weak. 🥺 Think of them...