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# Working as a teacher in Austria

In Austria, the occupation group "Professionals", which includes teachers, earns ≈ 4,184 EUR/month (gross, 2022). To work as a teacher in Austria on an EU Blue Card, the salary must be at least 55,678 € a year (current). Teacher is a regulated profession in Austria. Foreign qualifications go through: General system of recognition - primary application.

- Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals": ≈ 4,184 EUR/month (gross, 2022)
- Regulation: Regulated
- Recognition route: General system of recognition - primary application; Route varies by school type and origin; third-country qualification may require nostrification at a matching PH/university.
- Recognition authority: Competent PH/university or other office for exact school type and qualification origin.
- EU Blue Card threshold: 55,678 €/year (current)

## Sources

JSON list[].id=656009; list[].name; list[].country; list[].directive; list[].qualification; list[].qualification_level — https://api.tech.ec.europa.eu/regprof20/prodmigration/regprofs?lang=EN&id_country=11&pagenum=1&maxrows=100&sort_col=1&sort_dir=ASC
Public-school teacher regulated; third-country recognition may require matching PH/university nostrification. — https://www.bmfwf.gv.at/wissenschaft/anerkennung/nostrifizierung.html
Country work-route threshold — https://www.migration.gv.at/en/types-of-immigration/permanent-immigration-red-white-red-card/eu-blue-card.html
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=AT

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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 25). Teacher in Austria: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 19806da824014b6c29999588e426c1b3]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/teacher/austria/ Retrieved 2026-10-25. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

### BibTeX

```bibtex
@misc{immigrationdb_immigrationdb_teacher-in-austria-salary-and-recognition_2831774a0ff7,
  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Teacher in Austria: salary and recognition},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-25},
  version = {19806da824014b6c29999588e426c1b3},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/teacher/austria/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-25. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}
```

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[Teacher in Austria: salary and recognition](https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/teacher/austria/) — ImmigrationDB; ImmigrationDB; version 19806da824014b6c29999588e426c1b3; retrieved 2026-10-25; built 2026-10-25.

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- Title: Teacher in Austria: salary and recognition
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