Cultural Education and Amateur Arts Subsector
Do you work in arts education or amateur arts, for example as a subject teacher, conductor, or trainer/coach? Or are you the person hiring? Then it is important to consider fair pay. What is appropriate compensation for independent arts professionals? What conditions should apply? FairPACCT helps, providing concrete guidelines and tools.
Art professionals deserve better
Much of the work performed by professionals in cultural education and amateur arts is not covered by the Collective Labour Agreement (CAO) for Art Education. Consequently, some struggle with freelance rates and employment conditions. Can they include travel and preparation time? What happens when they fall ill? And how do they build up a pension?
Society benefits from well-trained, experienced people in the classroom, at amateur arts associations, and in local communities. In practice, however, we see workers leaving the sector prematurely due to low pay and poor working conditions. This must change.
About the chain table
The Culture Education and Amateur Arts chain table was established in June 2022 and, as of 2026, consists of 24 members. These include freelance art professionals and their clients, as well as mediators and support staff. Under the leadership of independent chair Marijn Cornelis, an expert and advisor, they explore opportunities to stimulate fair pay within this field. The chain table conducts and commissions research, performs analyses, and develops concrete fair pay products. In doing so, examples from the cultural sector and comparable industries are utilized. The previous chair until June 2025 was Bertien Minco, a sector expert and independent advisor.
Tools & downloads
Rate Tool Guide
The Rate Tool Guide substantiates the key choices made during the design of the rate tool for thirteen professional practices of art professionals in cultural education and amateur arts. You will also find tables with recommended rates, both including and excluding freelance markups and a markup for additional activities, which are available as separate downloads.
Two in-depth studies
The guide is based on a reference framework of fourteen existing collective labour agreements and six guidelines from January 2023, as well as a study featuring a survey report on current compensated and non-compensated activities and points of attention for fair pay.
- Appendix 1 to Practical Instrument 1: Financial background data. Accompanying the Cultural Education and Amateur Arts Rate Tool Guide. November 2023, Social Finance Matters.
- Appendix 2 to Practical Instrument 1: Tables with recommended rates including freelance markup, respectively excluding and including markup for additional activities. Accompanying the Cultural Education and Amateur Arts Rate Tool Guide. November 2023, Social Finance Matters.
Freelance rate tables
Here you will find the tables with fair pay freelance rates for the thirteen professional practices of art professionals in cultural education and amateur arts up to and including 2026.
Calculation tool
Use this calculation tool to determine an appropriate hourly rate for common activities performed by art professionals within cultural education and amateur arts. The tool covers thirteen different core activities and is intended for freelancers to whom no collective labour agreement applies.