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# Working as a teacher in Spain

In Spain, the occupation group "Professionals", which includes teachers, earns ≈ 2,614 EUR/month (gross, 2022). To work as a teacher in Spain on an EU Blue Card, the salary must be at least 41,356 € a year (current). Teacher is a regulated profession in Spain. Foreign qualifications go through: General system of recognition - primary application.

- Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals": ≈ 2,614 EUR/month (gross, 2022)
- Regulation: Regulated
- Recognition route: General system of recognition - primary application; Match the foreign qualification to the Spanish early-childhood, primary or secondary teaching stage; apply for the relevant degree/qualification homologation and establish the required pedagogical training for that stage.
- Recognition authority: Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports for the national homologation/recognition route; the relevant autonomous-community education authority applies the stage and hiring rules.
- 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
Initial qualification page: teaching at regulated early-childhood, primary and secondary stages requires the corresponding Spanish academic and pedagogical qualification. — https://www.educacionfpydeportes.gob.es/contenidos/profesorado/no-universitarios/formacion/formacion-inicial.html
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). Teacher in Spain: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 25e8654e7bfa9ac3f5b5308fbae39132]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/teacher/spain/ Retrieved 2026-10-25. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

### BibTeX

```bibtex
@misc{immigrationdb_immigrationdb_teacher-in-spain-salary-and-recognition_8e37d4a0af22,
  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Teacher in Spain: salary and recognition},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-25},
  version = {25e8654e7bfa9ac3f5b5308fbae39132},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/teacher/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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- Canonical URL: https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/teacher/spain/
- Title: Teacher in Spain: salary and recognition
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- Retrieved: 2026-10-25
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