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# Working as a nurse in Estonia

In Estonia, the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals", which includes nurses, earns ≈ 2,797 EUR/month (gross, 2024). To work as a nurse in Estonia on an EU Blue Card, the salary must be at least 37,656 € a year (current). Nurse is a regulated profession in Estonia. Foreign qualifications go through: Apply to the Health Board using the route for the actual profession and country of qualification; its instructions separate EU/EEA/Swiss and third-country applicants. In Estonia, nurses are listed on the EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.

- Earnings of the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals": ≈ 2,797 EUR/month (gross, 2024)
- Regulation: Regulated
- Recognition route: Apply to the Health Board using the route for the actual profession and country of qualification; its instructions separate EU/EEA/Swiss and third-country applicants.; General care nurse
- Recognition authority: Estonian Health Board (Terviseamet) for registration of the listed healthcare professions.
- Language requirement: For the covered non-EU route, the Health Board requires an Estonian-language compliance examination. The page states no CEFR level or accepted external test.
- Shortage list: EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission
- EU Blue Card threshold: 37,656 €/year (current)

## Sources

Health Board identifies listed healthcare-profession titles subject to registration. — https://terviseamet.ee/en/healthcare/registration-of-health-care-professionals
JSON list[].id=656731; list[].name; list[].country; list[].directive; list[].qualification; list[].qualification_level — https://api.tech.ec.europa.eu/regprof20/prodmigration/regprofs?lang=EN&id_country=17&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
Country work-route threshold — https://www.riigiteataja.ee/en/eli/ee/510042023008/consolide/current
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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### APA

ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 25). Nurse in Estonia: salary, recognition and shortage status [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 961d58744fe6d543f5d64db2b033befa]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/estonia/ Retrieved 2026-10-25. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

### BibTeX

```bibtex
@misc{immigrationdb_immigrationdb_nurse-in-estonia-salary-recognition-and-shortage-status_4bdc6c66142f,
  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Nurse in Estonia: salary, recognition and shortage status},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-25},
  version = {961d58744fe6d543f5d64db2b033befa},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/estonia/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-25. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}
```

### Markdown

[Nurse in Estonia: salary, recognition and shortage status](https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/estonia/) — ImmigrationDB; ImmigrationDB; version 961d58744fe6d543f5d64db2b033befa; retrieved 2026-10-25; built 2026-10-25.

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- Canonical URL: https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/estonia/
- Title: Nurse in Estonia: salary, recognition and shortage status
- Author: ImmigrationDB
- Publisher: ImmigrationDB
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- Version: `961d58744fe6d543f5d64db2b033befa`
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- Compilation license: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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