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# Working as a teacher in Luxembourg

In Luxembourg, the occupation group "Professionals", which includes teachers, earns ≈ 9,434 EUR/month (gross, 2024). To work as a teacher in Luxembourg on an EU Blue Card, the salary must be at least 65,652 € a year (current). Teacher is a regulated profession in Luxembourg. Foreign qualifications go through: General system of recognition - primary application.

- Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals": ≈ 9,434 EUR/month (gross, 2024)
- Regulation: Regulated
- Recognition route: General system of recognition - primary application; Public primary-school candidates need a recognised teaching degree, preliminary examinations, competitive ranking and an induction stage. Foreign EU/EEA teaching qualifications use the applicable recognition rules; the public secondary route separately requires the stated degree level for its career group.
- Recognition authority: The Ministry of Education, Children and Youth organises the public-school hiring route; foreign higher-education teaching diplomas must be recognised by the Ministry for Research and Higher Education for the stated primary-teacher route.
- Language requirement: For the cited public secondary teaching routes, applicants must master Luxembourgish, French and German; fundamental-school recruitment also includes preliminary language examinations, with a limited Luxembourgish-test exemption.
- EU Blue Card threshold: 65,652 €/year (current)

## Sources

JSON list[].id=660050; list[].name; list[].country; list[].directive; list[].qualification; list[].qualification_level — https://api.tech.ec.europa.eu/regprof20/prodmigration/regprofs?lang=EN&id_country=9&pagenum=1&maxrows=100&sort_col=1&sort_dir=ASC
Public primary teacher appointment requires a recognized teaching degree, preliminary examinations, competitive ranking and up to a two-year induction stage; qualifications and route differ by teaching cycle. — https://men.public.lu/en/systeme-educatif/fondamental/personnel-ecoles/recrutement-instituteurs.html
Country work-route threshold — https://guichet.public.lu/en/citoyens/immigration/vivre/non-luxembourg/immigration/pays-tiers/hautement-qualifie/salarie-hautement-qualifie.html
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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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 25). Teacher in Luxembourg: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version ac0571b8bd0bff691dbcc2b8c086e04f]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/teacher/luxembourg/ Retrieved 2026-10-25. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

### BibTeX

```bibtex
@misc{immigrationdb_immigrationdb_teacher-in-luxembourg-salary-and-recognition_27b3692a7309,
  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Teacher in Luxembourg: salary and recognition},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-25},
  version = {ac0571b8bd0bff691dbcc2b8c086e04f},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/teacher/luxembourg/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-25. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}
```

### Markdown

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- Title: Teacher in Luxembourg: salary and recognition
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