Artists Bolshoi Theater Only the most talented dancers and singers become. On initial stage career, they need to prove themselves and attract the attention of managers. Famous professionals earn very large fees and tour around the world.
Income of ballet dancers
A ballerina's career begins in childhood. A special commission selects girls 9 – 10 years, entering the choreographic school. At this age, plasticity and flexibility are most developed. Large physical exercise Not everyone can handle it during their studies. Many drop out in the first year.
The rest have to show strength of character and determination, and work hard.
Choreographic school student scholarship – total 2850 rub.. ($42) per month. For this money they buy 2 pairs of American plastic pointe shoes every month. They teach not only types of dances, but also general education subjects, paying minimal attention to them.
Training continues 8 – 9 years, then they take a state exam, where representatives of many theaters in the country are present. They choose the dancers they like and invite them to their troupes. There is competition for one place in prestigious theaters of about 100 people or more.
The table shows the earnings of ballerinas in the CIS countries:
| Starting salary | Salary of soloists | Salary of an experienced dancer | ||||
| In national val. | $ | In national val. | $ | In national val. | $ | |
| Russia, RUB | 17000 | 250 | 150000 | 2203 | 40000 | 588 |
| Kazakhstan, KZT | 72000 | 198 | 370000 | 1018 | 161000 | 443 |
| Ukraine, UAH | 4700 | 166 | 27000 | 954 | 11900 | 421 |
| Belarus, BYN | 358 | 172 | 2100 | 1011 | 866 | 417 |
Career
Aspiring artist, college graduate or ballet school, earns only 9,000 rubles. ($132) per month. Boys receive more girls, since there are much fewer of them.
Young ballerinas participate in the crowd. They get paid 400 rub. ($5.9) per day. The next step is dancing in the corps de ballet, where the salary reaches 30 – 40 thousand. ($441 – 588) per month. Make-up artists, costume designers, lighting technicians, ticket takers, etc. receive the same amount. Assembly shop workers receive 70,000 rub.. ($1028).
The salary of an artist with at least 1 year of experience depends on the number of performances per month. For each performance a certain number of points are awarded, which depends on whether the ballerina is dancing in the corps de ballet or in a solo number. Bolshoi Theater corps de ballet dancers earn 42000 ($617) + additional payment for the number of appearances on stage, length of service, bonuses, allowances for title, etc.
They pay for 1 performance from 1500 to 15000 rub.. ($22 – 220) – depends on importance role played. For every rehearsal – from 500 rub. up to 3000($7.3 – 44). There are from 4 to 25 performances per month. Average earnings are 55000 rub.. ($808).
- A prima ballerina earns about 150,000 ($2,203).
- Double - 62,500 ($918).
- People's Artist - from 120 to 200 thousand ($1763 - 2938) per month.
Over time, each member of the troupe receives bonuses:
- for length of service - 13,500 ($198);
- for the title of honored or people's artist– from 18 to 23 thousand rubles. ($264 – 338).
In the regions of the country, ballerinas earn:
- Moscow region – 89083 rub. ($1308);
- Chelyabinsk - 60,000 ($881);
- Perm region – 45833 ($673);
- Leningrad region – 25,000 ($367);
- Novosibirsk - 20,500 ($301).
Average salary statistics include salaries for management, artists and technical staff. Each theater has its own soloists. They earn from 100,000 rub. ($1469) per month. Tours around the country and especially abroad bring a lot of income. For a week of touring in Thailand, artists are paid from 35000 ($514) . Decent travel allowances are added to the salary.
Opera singers' earnings
To sing in the opera house you need to have a wide vocal range. Singers perform without microphones, the audience notices the slightest errors in performance. Beginning artists sing in the choir and receive from 7,000 rubles. per month ($103). average salary singer in Russia is 23,000 rubles. ($338).
Salary in regions:
- Krasnoyarsk Territory – 21,167 ($311);
- Moscow region – 9000 ($132).
The maximum salary corresponds to 67,870 ($997) per month.
IN major cities receive:
- Moscow – 50,000 rub. ($734);
- St. Petersburg – 30,000 ($441).
Most employers offer salary positions from 13 to 26 thousand. ($191 – 382). Beginners, but talented singers earn from 1500 euros for 1 performance.
Ildar Abdrazakov works in the famous opera houses of the world - the Bolshoi, La Scala, and performs the roles of the main characters in famous productions.
His fee for a private corporate event or concert is from 200 to 300 thousand dollars.
Opera diva Anna Netrebko began her career on the stage of the St. Petersburg Marinka. Her annual income is from $2.8 to $3.75 million. For each performance she receives from $50 thousand. Ticket to her performance official distributor costs 50,000 rub.. ($734).
When touring abroad, artists of this level earn huge fees, but many famous opera houses have set a certain rate for each appearance of an artist of the level of Domingo and Carreras:
- Metropolitan Opera - $16,000;
- La Scala – 17,000 euros;
- Zurich Opera theatre– 25,000 euros;
- Vienna Opera– 12,000 euros.
Theater actors take part in filming for advertising and cinema. Each of them has their own rate. One works for 5000 rub. ($79.4), and for the other – not enough and 50000 ($734). For advertising shoots they get from 35 to 100 thousand rubles. ($514 – 1469).
- In municipal theaters, singers and dancers earn 20–30 thousand ($294–441).
- In regional and federal ones – from 30,000 to 40,000 ($441 – 588).
Executive salaries
Directors and artistic directors famous theaters receive fabulous profits:
- General Director of the Bolshoi Theater - 7.21 million rubles. ($105,754) per year;
- Director Mariinsky Theater– 340 million ($587,526).
An artistic director is a director, stage director, screenwriter and administrator rolled into one.
In opera and ballet theaters they earn:
- Mariinsky – 154.1 million ($2,263,444) per year;
- National Philharmonic Orchestra – 76.1 million ($1,117,768);
- St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonic named after. Shostakovich – 44 million ($646,279);
- Theater of Nations – 37 million ($543,462).
IN drama theaters their earnings correspond to:
- Small – 113.2 million ($1,662,698) per year;
- Moscow Art Theater named after Chekhov - 69.1 million ($1,013,482);
- them. Vakhtangov - 661,421 rubles. ($9715) per month;
- “Satyricon” - 247,515 ($3,636);
- theater of Europe – 116222 ($1707).
Average wages for dramatic actors in Moscow – from 36 to 44 thousand. ($528-646).
Theater profits
Most cultural institutions in Russia survive due to subsidies from the state. Only the largest and most famous of them receive large revenues from their activities, but these funds are still not enough.
The Bolshoi Theater is financed by:
- The budget of the Russian Federation is 300 million rubles.
- Income from ticket sales – 2.45 billion rubles. in year.
- Sponsorship fees – about 351 thousand euros.
- Revenue from tours (difficult to calculate, they keep silent about this).
Regional and municipal theaters survive as best they can.
The occupancy of the halls rarely exceeds 50% .
State support there isn’t enough, so artists perform at corporate events, children’s matinees, etc.
The maximum cost of a ticket to the Bolshoi Theater is 15000 rub.. ($220), the rest - from 2 to 8 thousand ($29 - 117). For performances with world celebrities, the price increases to 50000 ($734). Resellers sell in 2 – 3 times expensive.
The administration is actively fighting this phenomenon, trying to block the opportunity for scammers to make money.
Each production costs at least RUB 60 million. ($881,289). To get to a performance at the Mariinsky Theater, they pay from 1,450 rubles for 1 ticket. ($20.5).
Vacancies
- FGBUK EGA The Yekaterinburg Opera and Ballet Theater invites corps de ballet dancers with higher choreographic education to participate in the productions of the new season. Salary – 15,000 rubles. ($220).
- Opera and Ballet Theater in Ulan-Ude, requires a choir soloist with higher vocal education and work experience. Salary – up to 25,000 ($367).
- The Puppet Theater, Kemerovo, requires a stage director, artistic director team with over 5 years of experience. Salary – 30,000 rubles. ($441).
How much do theater workers earn in Moscow and other places?
5 (100%) voted 2The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation on its website published data on the average monthly salaries of heads of subordinate institutions for 2016
Average age The heads of Moscow's leading theaters have already exceeded 80! Why are masters of culture in no hurry to retire, even if their strength is running out?
The answer to this question may lie in the report of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. On its website it published data on the average monthly salaries of heads of subordinate institutions for 2016.
FOR REFERENCE: Yuri Solomin (Maly Theater) and Oleg Tabakov (Chekhov Moscow Art Theater) are 81 each. Alexander Shirvindt (Satire Theater) is 82, Tatyana Doronina (Gorky Moscow Art Theater), Galina Volchek (Sovremennik) and Mark Zakharov (Lenkom) - 83 years old. Some of them already have difficulty moving independently, but are ready to come to work even in a wheelchair.
The highest paid was the artistic director and director of the Mariinsky Theater Valery Gergiev. On average, every month of the past year he received 12 million 857 thousand 163 rubles. His colleague from the St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonic, according to the Ministry of Culture, earned 976.2 thousand rubles a month. And to the General Director of the Moscow Kremlin Museum-Reserve Elena Gagarina(daughter of the first cosmonaut) was paid a salary of 964.2 thousand rubles.
My dear old people: SOLOMIN, SHIRVINDT, ZAKHAROV
A little less - 936 thousand each - fell on the card Oleg Tabakov. But, in addition to the leadership of the Moscow Art Theater, Oleg Pavlovich, as you know, also heads the Tabakerka Theater and the Theater College. These institutions are financed from the Moscow budget, but the capital department has not yet published data on the salaries of its cultural workers. Therefore, at the moment it is not known, for example, about salaries Mark Zakharova, Alexander Shirvindt, Galina Volchek. Their theaters are also financed not from the federal budget, but from the Moscow budget.
Galina VOLCHEK. Photo: ITAR-TASS Among the leaders of other famous “centers of culture” stands out Yuri Solomin. His average salary in 2016 was 746.7 thousand. Colleague of Yuri Methodievich from the Moscow Art Theater Tatiana Doronina declared the amount almost half as much - 389.6 thousand.
Head of the Great Moscow Circus Edgar Zapashny every month of the past year I received 499.7 thousand. One of the lowest paid Konstantin Raikin from Satyricon - 247.5 thousand rubles.
Famous musician Yuri Lozu- which, among other things, has economic Education- We were not surprised by the size of the salaries of artistic directors.
- Our budget can’t withstand such loads,” Loza sneers. - Where else, if not from the budget, should these cultural figures get their salaries? After all, they essentially produce nothing. It's a shame that among our oligarchs there are no hard workers. They have not created anything themselves; they live on the oil needle. They took advantage of the privatization of people's wealth at one time, but now they don't even care. Our artistic directors have adjusted in exactly the same way: they know where to get the money. Either from the same oligarchs, or from the state, which for them, in fact, is an oligarch. Therefore, for the poor, ordinary people culture does nothing, only for the rich! That’s why films are not made for the people, and plays are not staged for the people.
In the theater, the director receives a million rubles, and the stage installer receives thirty to forty times less,” continues Loza. - And the safety of the actors depends on the latter, by the way. Is this fair? We need to reduce this insane difference in earnings. I also earn more than my musicians, but not by the same amount! These are my colleagues, and they work as much as I do, stand behind me on stage, play. So my conscience does not allow me to rip them off.
Museum employees are custodians of historical treasures and works of art. Their work is important to cultural development new generations, but the salary does not correspond to the assigned responsibilities. Many of them work on a volunteer basis.
Income of the keepers of history
Many people believe that museum employees receive meager salaries, which is why only pensioners work as caretakers. In part, this is true, but the management of cultural objects earns many times more than ordinary workers.
Average salary of museum employees:
- in Moscow – 59,100 rubles. ($875);
- in St. Petersburg – 50,100 ($745).
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Museum employees work under a contract and receive a daily salary of 1000 rub. ($15).
Income depends on the type of ownership of the institution:
- federal subordination – 53.5 thousand rubles. ($793);
- regional – 34.6 thousand ($513);
- municipal – 22.6 thousand ($335).
At the History Museum Gulag employees are paid 15500 rub.. ($230) per month + supplement of 13000 ($193) and quarterly bonuses – approx. 10 thousand ($148). Large state cultural institutions employ up to 400 people. It includes not only management and scientific staff, but also service staff– technicians, plumbers, electricians, etc.
The average salary of museum employees by region of Russia is:
- Nenets Autonomous Okrug – 55,635 rubles. ($826);
- Moscow region – 45,000 ($668);
- Irkutsk - 36,737 ($545);
- Krasnoyarsk Territory - 26,000 ($386);
- Komi Republic – 18,000 ($267).
The table shows the income of directors of well-known museums in the country compared to the earnings of their subordinates:
| Museum name | Director's salary | Wed. employee salary | ||
| RUB | USD | RUB | USD | |
| Hermitage | 840000 | 12465 | 51200 | 756 |
| Tretyakov Gallery | 439000 | 9546 | 58700 | 871 |
| Kizhi | 330000 | 4897 | 43600 | 647 |
| Russian | 273000 | 4051 | 42100 | 625 |
| Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin | 198000 | 2938 | 55000 | 816 |
| Peterhof | 400000 | 5936 | 51730 | 768 |
| Urban sculpture | 130000 | 1929 | 20682 | 307 |
| Ross. Academy of Arts | 80000 | 1187 | 15100 | 230 |
Average salary of employees " St. Isaac's Cathedral» — 72606 rub. ($1077) per month. The guide at this institution receives a salary of up to 38000 ($564) .
A museum curator earns:
- Sverdlovsk region. – 23,000 rub. ($341);
- Moscow – 20,000 ($297).
Laboratory assistant, aka junior Researcher, receives 22100 rub. ($326) salary, quarterly bonus of up to 40 thousand.
The Ministry of Culture believes that the time has come to optimize the bloated staff of cultural institutions. The remaining people will receive increased wages.
Profits in management positions
The table shows the salaries of museum employees holding key positions:
| State Museum | Supervisor | Deputy Director | Head buh. | |||
| RUB | USD | RUB | USD | RUB | USD | |
| Literary | 350505 | 5201 | 296000 | 4303 | 327090 | 4854 |
| Them. L.N. Tolstoy | 147815 | 2193 | 220592 | 3273 | 172301 | 2557 |
| Them. A. Bakhrushina | 325756 | 4834 | 223590 | 3318 | 213050 | 3161 |
| "Yasnaya Polyana" | 201430 | 2989 | 197260 | 2927 | 194500 | 1886 |
| "Polenovo" | 125000 | 1859 | 65240 | 968 | 67140 | 996 |
| “Moscow. Kremlin" | 964215 | 14308 | 753111 | 11175 | 566783 | 8410 |
In addition to excursions and screenings, each museum hosts serious research Job. Employees take part in international conferences, exhibitions, get acquainted with new products in other galleries, share own experience.
The ICOM card allows them to visit cultural institutions in Russia and other countries for free.
They can move along career ladder as scientists and as well-known art historians, starting with a laboratory assistant, along the lines of: junior researcher – senior researcher – leading researcher – curator – chief custodian- director.
Salaries in other countries
The average salary of employees of Ukrainian museums, archives and libraries in 2018 is 5017 UAH ($179). Director of Odessa art museum On his Facebook page he published a note that his salary today is 4658 UAH ($166), which is only 1000 ($36) more than what a janitor on the staff of this institution receives.
The Independent Trade Union of Theater and Film Actors sent an appeal to Rostrud and the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation with a request to check and justify the salaries of the leading management Russian theaters. According to representatives of the organization, some directors and artistic directors receive unreasonably inflated salaries, which differ from the average salaries of artists by 8-15 times.
For example, the artistic director of the St. Petersburg Alexandrinsky Theater Valery Fokin receives 8.4 million rubles a year, artistic director of the Russian Youth Theater Alexey Borodin - 6.4 million, artistic director of the Yaroslavl Drama Theater named after Fyodor Volkov Evgeny Marcelli - 4.4 million, director of the Obraztsov Puppet Theater Irina Korchevnikova - 2.5 million , director of the Satyricon Theater Anatoly Polyankin - 5.7 million.
In addition, deputy managers and chief accountants of theaters have high salaries. For example, the chief accountant of the Mariinsky Theater Marina Babushkina earns more than the general director of the Bolshoi Theater Vladimir Urin (8 million rubles per year). Each of the deputy directors of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater Boris Mezdrich received an average of 4 million rubles per year in 2014. Natalya Vinogradova, deputy director for work with spectators at the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater, receives 6.7 million rubles a year.
Why in theaters that are financed by the state do managers receive about 600 thousand rubles a month, while ordinary shop workers and artists are forced to count pennies until their salaries? We turned to the departments for clarification, because this situation must be regulated,” said Denis Kiris, chairman of the Independent Trade Union of Theater and Film Actors.
At the same time, according to the trud.com database, the salaries of artists in Russian theaters average about 30 thousand rubles per month. Moscow actors have the largest salaries - an average of 50 thousand rubles; in St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm and Sochi - about 30 thousand rubles. In Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Volgograd and other smaller cities, artist salaries rarely exceed 20 thousand rubles. At the same time, the salaries of theater directors in these regions are comparable to the earnings of metropolitan directors and artistic directors.
The Ministry of Culture explained that the salary of the head of subordinate cultural institutions is formed individually, depending on qualifications, complexity, quantity, quality and conditions of the work performed (salary, compensation and incentive payments).
The official salary of the head of a federal institution is determined employment contract depending on the complexity of the work, including taking into account the scale of management and the characteristics of the activities and significance of the federal institution,” said the press service of the Ministry of Culture.
CEO At the Maly Theater, Tamara Mikhailova believes that any popular actor “earns incomparably more than the theater’s chief accountant.”
I in no way want to compare actors and chief accountants, because everyone works according to their own profile. But the chief accountant in our theater is the person who is responsible for all finances, including this moment bears responsibility for construction and reconstruction, is responsible for the money allocated by the Ministry of Culture for government tasks, for the salary of each employee, for the correctness of calculations. Any actor in best case scenario is used five times a month. If these are actors from the crowd, then they work more, but their norm is different. Artists who are in demand have no time to count other people’s money,” said Mikhailova.
Chairman of the Moscow city territorial organization of the Russian Trade Union of Cultural Workers Lidia Fomina said that modern system theatrical business provokes irresponsibility.
Very often, in defense of their high salaries, directors and chief accountants say that they are financially responsible. Remember at least one case in which someone from the management of theaters was punished based on the results of financial audits. Alexei Malobrodsky, director of the Gogol Center, was recently fired. The theater has multimillion-dollar debts, as the head of the culture department publicly stated. What is material liability former director? Why are there no questions for him? - Lydia Fomina is interested.
In May, the Ministry of Culture published a declaration of income of heads of subordinate institutions. Information was provided for the first time in a form approved by Presidential Decree Russian Federation dated June 23, 2014 No. 460 “On approval of the form of a certificate of income, expenses, property and property obligations and amendments to certain acts of the President of the Russian Federation.” For the first time, the document indicated not only the income of heads of institutions, but also their deputies and chief accountants.
The record holder for earnings has traditionally been the artistic director - director of the Mariinsky Theater Valery Gergiev. Behind last year he earned from different sources 339.7 million rubles. In addition to leading the Mariinsky Theater, Gergiev heads the London Symphony Orchestra(contract expires at the end of 2015). According to SPARK, the maestro is also a co-owner of the Elba creative meeting center, which organizes music Festival"Stars of the White Nights". In addition, the conductor owns a 15% stake in Eurodon LLC, a company specializing in the production of poultry meat. According to rough estimates, the company's turnover in 2013 amounted to about 5 billion rubles.
As in 2013, the top five included artistic director - director of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater Oleg Tabakov (48.2 million rubles) and artistic director of the Theater of Nations Evgeny Mironov (43.4 million rubles). It is noteworthy that First Deputy Minister of Culture Vladimir Aristarkhov cannot compete with the richest theater figures: in 2014 he earned 36.5 million rubles.
General Director of the Bolshoi Theater Vladimir Urin was not even included in the top twenty richest managers in the field of culture. Urin’s total income amounted to 7.2 million rubles.
What are the components of the remuneration system for cultural workers? Which museum directors are considered the most highly paid? What is the ratio between the salaries of ordinary employees and managers cultural institutions. The answers to these questions are in our article.
Information about the income of cultural workers is posted on open Internet sources, so the salaries of museum directors have long been no secret to anyone who is curious.
The main thing in the article:
Remuneration system in culture
The remuneration system in culture is formed from three components: a fixed salary, compensation and motivating payments.
To determine the final salary of employees, it is recommended to apply the provisions of the document approved by the decision of the Russian Tripartite Commission dated December 22, 2017 - “Unified recommendations for remuneration systems for 2018.”
When determining the remuneration system, cultural institutions of the Russian Federation are guided by the rules described in Government Regulation No. 583 of 08/05/2008.
Salaries of heads of cultural institutions
The website of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation recently published information on the income of the management staff of subordinate cultural institutions over the past year. In addition to data on wages for the year, information on the property of managers was also provided.
Valery Gergiev, head of the Mariinsky Theater, became the leader in terms of salary. His monthly income is about 13 million rubles.
The list of the most paid managers in the field of culture includes employees of the Hermitage. The general director of the museum, Mikhail Piotrovsky, receives a salary of up to 1 million rubles, and each of his 5 deputies receives around 500-700 thousand rubles.
Employees of the State Concert have the most modest earnings: the salary of the director, Sergei Bunin, barely exceeds 30 thousand rubles, and his deputy - 20 thousand rubles.
How much do museum directors earn?
Speaking about the incomes of directors of different museum institutions, they are more or less comparable to each other. There are no such striking contrasts as in the salaries of theater directors.
It is important to note that the declared salaries of heads of cultural institutions slightly exceed annual incomes, or even correspond to them.
Among colleagues in the museum field, only the director of the Kremlin Museum Elena Gagarina and the director State Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky, whose income is approximately 900 thousand rubles.
In general, the salaries of museum directors within the country are more modest, ranging from 100 to 500 thousand rubles. By the way, the salary of managers is not always directly proportional to the fame, prestige or location of museums.
For example, according to data for 2016, Alexey Levykin, director Historical Museum, received about half a million rubles monthly, and Zelfira Tregulova, director Tretyakov Gallery– 436 thousand rubles. The salaries of the directors of the Russian Museum and the KIZHI Museum-Reserve were about 300 thousand rubles.
Marina Loshak, director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, had a somewhat more modest income. Pushkin. Her salary did not exceed 200 thousand rubles.
Managers of famous museums can set their own salaries
Important changes are expected in the museum industry in the near future. The fact is that on May 10 of this year, Dmitry Medvedev issued an order that will affect the formation of wages for employees of some cultural institutions.
In accordance with this document, directors famous museums soon they will be able to determine their own wages.
According to information from Federal agency news, the salaries of employees of the Russian Museum, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the Kizhi Museum-Reserve and the Tretyakov Gallery and other cultural institutions have changed.
As of today, the income of managers and employees is determined in a ratio of 1:8. However, after the adoption of the above provision, the heads of museums included in the list will be able to increase wages at your own discretion.
For example, consider the ratio of salaries of directors of famous museums and their employees:
- The director of the Tretyakov Gallery, Zelfira Tregulova, receives 436 thousand rubles a month, other employees - up to 58 thousand rubles.
- Director of the Kizhi Museum-Reserve Elena Bogdanova - 330 thousand rubles, ordinary staff - 43.5 thousand rubles.
- The head of the Russian Museum, Vladimir Gusev, earns 272 thousand rubles, and his employees earn just over 40 thousand rubles.
- The head of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Marina Loshak, earns just under 200 thousand rubles, and other museum employees earn 55 thousand rubles.
The list of museums was initially approved in 2012. It included six subordinate institutions of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.
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