Working as a childcare worker in Finland
What official sources say about working as a childcare worker in Finland: what the occupation group earns and how foreign qualifications are recognised.
In Finland, the occupation group "Service and sales workers", which includes childcare workers, earns ≈ 3,597 EUR/month (gross, 2024). Childcare worker is a regulated profession in Finland. Foreign qualifications go through: General system of recognition - primary application.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Service and sales workers"
- ≈ 3,597 EUR/month (gross, 2024)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- General system of recognition - primary application
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Service and sales workers" in Finland: ≈ 3,597 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.
Regulation and recognition
Childcare worker is a regulated profession in Finland.
- Recognition route
- General system of recognition - primary application. For ECEC posts with statutory qualification requirements, apply to EDUFI for recognition; distinguish ECEC educator/child-carer roles from broader childcare jobs.
- Recognition authority
- EDUFI for qualification recognition for covered ECEC eligibility; broader child-care jobs can have different requirements.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Childcare worker in Finland: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version bb49426790ffb4ebf7aae8369e840089]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/childcare-worker/finland/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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