Working as a childcare worker in Bulgaria
What official sources say about working as a childcare worker in Bulgaria: what the occupation group earns and how foreign qualifications are recognised.
In Bulgaria, the occupation group "Service and sales workers", which includes childcare workers, earns ≈ 489 EUR/month (gross, 2022). Childcare worker is not a regulated profession in Bulgaria. Foreign qualifications go through: Employer assesses the foreign professional qualification for the generic non-regulated role. NACID academic-degree recognition may be requested separately where a foreign degree needs equivalence; it is not a professional licence.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Service and sales workers"
- ≈ 489 EUR/month (gross, 2022)
- Regulation
- Not marked regulated
- Recognition route
- Employer assesses the foreign professional qualification for the generic non-regulated role. NACID academic-degree recognition may be requested separately where a foreign degree needs equivalence; it is not a professional licence.
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Service and sales workers" in Bulgaria: ≈ 489 EUR/month (gross, 2022), from Eurostat. An occupation group is wider than one job title: it is the pay of everyone the group holds, not of childcare workers alone.
Regulation and recognition
Childcare worker is not a regulated profession in Bulgaria.
- Recognition route
- Employer assesses the foreign professional qualification for the generic non-regulated role. NACID academic-degree recognition may be requested separately where a foreign degree needs equivalence; it is not a professional licence.
- Recognition authority
- For a non-regulated profession, NACID says the employer is competent to recognise the foreign professional qualification; no profession-wide national recognition authority is identified.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Childcare worker in Bulgaria: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 8c11cb43d2d55262c385afddf4e06984]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/childcare-worker/bulgaria/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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title = {Childcare worker in Bulgaria: salary and recognition},
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