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# Working as an engineer in Greece

In Greece, the occupation group "Professionals", which includes engineers, earns ≈ 1,345 EUR/month (gross, 2022). To work as an engineer in Greece on an EU Blue Card, the salary must be at least 31,919 € a year (current). Engineer is a regulated profession in Greece. Foreign qualifications go through: General system of recognition - primary application.

- Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals": ≈ 1,345 EUR/month (gross, 2022)
- Regulation: Regulated
- Recognition route: General system of recognition - primary application; Apply to TEE under the applicable engineering specialty and Directive 2005/36/EC; the source requires qualification documents, possible professional-status evidence and TEE registration. Exact requirements depend on specialty and origin.
- Recognition authority: For engineering titles within the Directive procedure, the competent provider is the locally responsible department of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE/TCG), under the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport.
- EU Blue Card threshold: 31,919 €/year (current)

## Sources

JSON list[].id=661059; list[].name; list[].country; list[].directive; list[].qualification; list[].qualification_level — https://api.tech.ec.europa.eu/regprof20/prodmigration/regprofs?lang=EN&id_country=4&pagenum=1&maxrows=100&sort_col=1&sort_dir=ASC
TEE engineer route under Directive 2005/36/EC; competent authority TEE; advertised EUR 76 and two-month deadline; eligibility and foreign-qualification rules are route-specific; updated 31 July 2026. — https://en.mitos.gov.gr/index.php?title=%CE%94%CE%94%3ALicense_to_practice_a_profession_based_on_Directive_2005%2F36%2FEC
Country work-route threshold — https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/policies/migration-and-asylum/eu-immigration-portal/eu-blue-card/eu-blue-card-greece_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=EL

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@misc{immigrationdb_immigrationdb_engineer-in-greece-salary-and-recognition_04f792b64852,
  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Engineer in Greece: salary and recognition},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-25},
  version = {d28732fcc3009c5fc3cc2a55e039004c},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/engineer/greece/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-25. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}
```

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