Ukraine/ 4.2 Specific policy issues and recent debates  

4.2.9 Employment policies for the cultural sector

In December 2011, a total of 252 000 persons were employed in the public cultural, leisure, and sports sector (comparing with 262 000 in 2010), at about 44 800 state or community owned cultural organisations. Most of the cultural employees are working in institutions funded from local budgets (more than 170 000 workers).

There is no data on employment patterns in the private sector cultural industries.

The main problems related to cultural employment are the following:

• to raise the salaries of cultural workers, especially in rural areas and small towns;
• to provide training programmes offering new management skills;
• to raise the prestige of employment in the cultural sector;
• to protect the cultural sector from budget cuts; and
• to secure tax and rent privileges, especially for independent artists and organisations (see also chapter 4.3).

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