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# Working as a childcare worker in Cyprus

In Cyprus, the occupation group "Service and sales workers", which includes childcare workers, earns ≈ 1,975 EUR/month (gross, 2024). To work as a childcare worker in Cyprus on an EU Blue Card, the salary must be at least 43,632 € a year (current). Childcare worker is a regulated profession in Cyprus. Foreign qualifications go through: For paid home childminding, register with Social Welfare Services; file the secondary-school qualification, child-care knowledge/experience, health and police documents, and demonstrate premises/equipment suitability. Care-centre employee qualification requirements are set separately by Social Welfare Services.

- Earnings of the occupation group "Service and sales workers": ≈ 1,975 EUR/month (gross, 2024)
- Regulation: Regulated
- Recognition route: For paid home childminding, register with Social Welfare Services; file the secondary-school qualification, child-care knowledge/experience, health and police documents, and demonstrate premises/equipment suitability. Care-centre employee qualification requirements are set separately by Social Welfare Services.
- Recognition authority: Director of Social Welfare Services / Social Welfare Services, Deputy Ministry of Social Welfare, for paid home childminder registration.
- EU Blue Card threshold: 43,632 €/year (current)

## Sources

Children Law (Cap. 352), Social Welfare Services childminder register. — https://www.businessincyprus.gov.cy/business-sectors/childminder/
Country work-route threshold — https://www.gov.cy/mip-md/en/documents/eu-blue-card/
ILOSTAT mean earnings by occupation (EAR_EMTA_SEX_OCU_CUR_NB) — https://rplumber.ilo.org/data/indicator?id=EAR_EMTA_SEX_OCU_CUR_NB

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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 25). Childcare worker in Cyprus: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version b3442082e3f4fdccfac6504c6d1225e7]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/childcare-worker/cyprus/ Retrieved 2026-10-25. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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@misc{immigrationdb_immigrationdb_childcare-worker-in-cyprus-salary-and-recognition_da3b2836486f,
  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Childcare worker in Cyprus: salary and recognition},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-25},
  version = {b3442082e3f4fdccfac6504c6d1225e7},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/childcare-worker/cyprus/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-25. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}
```

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