Starting salary of 2500 euros
Wage negotiations between employee representatives and the German Stage Association have failed for the time being. The latter recommends that its members pay artistic employees a salary of at least 2,500 euros per month from the coming season.
In a petition, the Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnen-Angehöriger (GDBA) demands a minimum wage of between 2750 and 3100 euros, depending on the size of the theater and qualifications. Those affected usually have a university degree, they work on Sundays and public holidays, during the week often in split shifts and often longer than other professional groups. Currently, the minimum wage of 2,000 euros is lower than in the public sector for unskilled and semi-skilled kitchen assistants and messengers.
The collective bargaining negotiations between the GDBA and the Vereinigung deutscher Opern- und Tanzensembles e.V. (VdO) and the Deutscher Bühnenverein are to be continued in June.
After the negotiations have already been postponed once, a further postponement is not possible due to the advanced budget planning in the member theaters, writes the Bühnenverein. It is therefore giving its members the normative recommendation to pay artistic employees a salary of at least 2,500 euros per month from the coming season.
