Working as a childcare worker in Estonia
What official sources say about working as a childcare worker in Estonia: what the occupation group earns and how foreign qualifications are recognised.
In Estonia, the occupation group "Service and sales workers", which includes childcare workers, earns ≈ 1,650 EUR/month (gross, 2024). To work as a childcare worker in Estonia on an EU Blue Card, the salary must be at least 37,656 € a year (current). Childcare worker is a regulated profession in Estonia. Foreign qualifications go through: Foreign professional qualifications for covered preschool roles are recognized under the Recognition of Foreign Professional Qualifications Act.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Service and sales workers"
- ≈ 1,650 EUR/month (gross, 2024)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- Foreign professional qualifications for covered preschool roles are recognized under the Recognition of Foreign Professional Qualifications Act.
- EU Blue Card threshold
- 37,656 €/year
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Service and sales workers" in Estonia: ≈ 1,650 EUR/month (gross, 2024), from ILO. An occupation group is wider than one job title: it is the pay of everyone the group holds, not of childcare workers alone.
EU Blue Card salary threshold
Estonia publishes a current EU Blue Card threshold of 37,656 €/year. It is the minimum salary for that work route, not what childcare workers earn.
Regulation and recognition
Childcare worker is a regulated profession in Estonia.
- Recognition route
- Foreign professional qualifications for covered preschool roles are recognized under the Recognition of Foreign Professional Qualifications Act.
- Recognition authority
- Ministry of Education and Research for foreign qualification recognition in covered preschool roles.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 25). Childcare worker in Estonia: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 117943e77842e034369634f7a1868d1d]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/childcare-worker/estonia/ Retrieved 2026-10-25. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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author = {ImmigrationDB},
title = {Childcare worker in Estonia: salary and recognition},
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date = {2026-10-25},
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