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# Working as a teacher in Cyprus

In Cyprus, the occupation group "Professionals", which includes teachers, earns ≈ 3,665 EUR/month (gross, 2024). To work as a teacher in Cyprus on an EU Blue Card, the salary must be at least 43,632 € a year (current). Teacher is a regulated profession in Cyprus. Foreign qualifications go through: For public teaching, obtain KY.S.A.T.S. equivalence/correspondence of a foreign degree to the relevant Cyprus teacher degree, then file the Educational Service Commission appointment-table application with role-specific documents and language proof. Primary and secondary specialities follow separate service plans.

- Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals": ≈ 3,665 EUR/month (gross, 2024)
- Regulation: Regulated
- Recognition route: For public teaching, obtain KY.S.A.T.S. equivalence/correspondence of a foreign degree to the relevant Cyprus teacher degree, then file the Educational Service Commission appointment-table application with role-specific documents and language proof. Primary and secondary specialities follow separate service plans.
- Recognition authority: Educational Service Commission for public appointment tables; KY.S.A.T.S. for equivalence/correspondence of the foreign teaching degree.
- Language requirement: Public primary/secondary teacher pages require very good Greek / Modern Greek at secondary-school level, and good English, French or German for the described public-school tracks. These labels are not stated as CEFR levels.
- EU Blue Card threshold: 43,632 €/year (current)

## Sources

2024 list row 62–63; public-sector teacher scope. — https://www.mlsi.gov.cy/mlsi/dl/dl.nsf/All/7FA6A9333991B5F1C22580A4002B6F42?OpenDocument=&print=
Country work-route threshold — https://www.gov.cy/mip-md/en/documents/eu-blue-card/
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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@misc{immigrationdb_immigrationdb_teacher-in-cyprus-salary-and-recognition_51b3106ccb6c,
  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Teacher in Cyprus: salary and recognition},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-25},
  version = {41be69bac80187ed1490f5fc1913f02d},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/teacher/cyprus/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-25. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}
```

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