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# Working as a childcare worker in Austria

In Austria, the occupation group "Service and sales workers", which includes childcare workers, earns ≈ 2,296 EUR/month (gross, 2022). To work as a childcare worker in Austria on an EU Blue Card, the salary must be at least 55,678 € a year (current). Childcare worker is a regulated profession in Austria. Foreign qualifications go through: Qualified preschool pedagogy follows competent institution and provincial rules; assistant Kinderbetreuer roles are distinct.

- Earnings of the occupation group "Service and sales workers": ≈ 2,296 EUR/month (gross, 2022)
- Regulation: Regulated
- Recognition route: Qualified preschool pedagogy follows competent institution and provincial rules; assistant Kinderbetreuer roles are distinct.; General system of recognition - primary application
- Recognition authority: Office depends on exact early-childhood role, qualification and federal state; national guide routes the individual case.
- EU Blue Card threshold: 55,678 €/year (current)

## Sources

Directory says it lists procedures and regulated professions; used as classification lead. — https://eap.wien.gv.at/AZ.aspx?lang=de
JSON list[].id=656009; list[].name; list[].country; list[].directive; list[].qualification; list[].qualification_level — https://api.tech.ec.europa.eu/regprof20/prodmigration/regprofs?lang=EN&id_country=11&pagenum=1&maxrows=100&sort_col=1&sort_dir=ASC
Country work-route threshold — https://www.migration.gv.at/en/types-of-immigration/permanent-immigration-red-white-red-card/eu-blue-card.html
Structure of Earnings Survey 2022 (earn_ses22_25) — https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/api/dissemination/statistics/1.0/data/earn_ses22_25?lang=en&format=JSON&freq=A&sex=T&indic_se=ERN&sizeclas=10-49&unit=EUR&geo=AT

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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 25). Childcare worker in Austria: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version d12b956db819d014380fa0ce14329074]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/childcare-worker/austria/ Retrieved 2026-10-25. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

### BibTeX

```bibtex
@misc{immigrationdb_immigrationdb_childcare-worker-in-austria-salary-and-recognition_842a4e6a66a6,
  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Childcare worker in Austria: salary and recognition},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-25},
  version = {d12b956db819d014380fa0ce14329074},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/childcare-worker/austria/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-25. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}
```

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