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# Working as a nurse in Spain

In Spain, the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals", which includes nurses, earns ≈ 2,264 EUR/month (gross, 2022). To work as a nurse in Spain on an EU Blue Card, the salary must be at least 41,356 € a year (current). Nurse is a regulated profession in Spain. Foreign qualifications go through: Specialist (and General care) Nurse. In Spain, nurses are listed on the EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission.

- Earnings of the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals": ≈ 2,264 EUR/month (gross, 2022)
- Regulation: Regulated
- Recognition route: Specialist (and General care) Nurse; General care nurse; First identify the exact Spanish profession and country where the qualification was issued. Eligible EU/EEA listed titles use the applicable RD 581/2017 recognition route; third-country qualifications require the separate Spanish qualification-homologation route and any profession-specific registration or adaptation steps.
- Recognition authority: For EU/EEA professional recognition, the competent health authority is the Ministry of Health; third-country degree homologation is a separate university-qualification route, and regional registration/collegiate requirements may also apply.
- Language requirement: There is no single CEFR level that applies automatically to every applicant. For an RD 581/2017 health-profession recognition route, the competent authority may require proportionate Spanish and, where relevant, autonomous-community language competence; the Ministry of Health sets the patient-safety level.
- Shortage list: EURES labour shortages and surpluses dashboard — National Coordination Office submission
- EU Blue Card threshold: 41,356 €/year (current)

## Sources

JSON list[].id=660891; list[].name; list[].country; list[].directive; list[].qualification; list[].qualification_level — https://api.tech.ec.europa.eu/regprof20/prodmigration/regprofs?lang=EN&id_country=5&pagenum=1&maxrows=100&sort_col=1&sort_dir=ASC
FAQ 2026; EU automatic-recognition categories for general-care nurses and midwives; RD 581/2017. — https://www.sanidad.gob.es/areas/profesionesSanitarias/profesiones/especialistasComunitarios/retuex/docs/FAQs_DEFINITIVAS_2026.pdf
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.inclusion.gob.es/documents/d/unidadgrandesempresas/umbral-salarial.pdf
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=ES

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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 25). Nurse in Spain: salary, recognition and shortage status [ImmigrationDB compilation; version f1c38441b48adf14b0aeca27511d5867]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/spain/ Retrieved 2026-10-25. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

### BibTeX

```bibtex
@misc{immigrationdb_immigrationdb_nurse-in-spain-salary-recognition-and-shortage-status_29490b983320,
  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Nurse in Spain: salary, recognition and shortage status},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-25},
  version = {f1c38441b48adf14b0aeca27511d5867},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/spain/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-25. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}
```

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