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# Working as a childcare worker in Romania

In Romania, the occupation group "Service and sales workers", which includes childcare workers, earns ≈ 637 EUR/month (gross, 2022). Childcare worker is a regulated profession in Romania. Foreign qualifications go through: For educator-child-carer and preschool-teacher professions listed as regulated, recognition is handled by the Ministry of Education authority; other childcare roles may follow different rules. In Romania, childcare workers are listed on the EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.

- Earnings of the occupation group "Service and sales workers": ≈ 637 EUR/month (gross, 2022)
- Regulation: Regulated
- Recognition route: For educator-child-carer and preschool-teacher professions listed as regulated, recognition is handled by the Ministry of Education authority; other childcare roles may follow different rules.; General system of recognition - primary application
- Recognition authority: Ministry of Education for the listed educator-child-carer and preschool-teacher subset; not every frozen childcare role.
- Shortage list: EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission

## Sources

Current national directory of sectoral and other regulated-profession authorities and named professional titles. — https://cnred.edu.ro/en/competent-authorities/
JSON list[].id=657855; list[].name; list[].country; list[].directive; list[].qualification; list[].qualification_level — https://api.tech.ec.europa.eu/regprof20/prodmigration/regprofs?lang=EN&id_country=27&pagenum=1&maxrows=100&sort_col=1&sort_dir=ASC
NCO.json key=1; A=AT; B=2025; C=2143; D=Environmental engineers; E=Shortage; F=Low — https://eures.europa.eu/living-and-working/labour-shortages-and-surpluses-europe_en
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=RO

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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Childcare worker in Romania: salary, recognition and shortage status [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 4e843fb51f38ef74fe7a6a0e08949e43]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/childcare-worker/romania/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

### BibTeX

```bibtex
@misc{immigrationdb_immigrationdb_childcare-worker-in-romania-salary-recognition-and-shortage-status_52bda04d2b2d,
  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Childcare worker in Romania: salary, recognition and shortage status},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {4e843fb51f38ef74fe7a6a0e08949e43},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/childcare-worker/romania/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-16. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}
```

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- Title: Childcare worker in Romania: salary, recognition and shortage status
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