Working as a childcare worker in Greece
What official sources say about working as a childcare worker in Greece: what the occupation group earns and how foreign qualifications are recognised.
In Greece, the occupation group "Service and sales workers", which includes childcare workers, earns ≈ 1,044 EUR/month (gross, 2022). To work as a childcare worker in Greece on an EU Blue Card, the salary must be at least 31,919 € a year (current). Childcare worker is a regulated profession in Greece. Foreign qualifications go through: General system of recognition - primary application.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Service and sales workers"
- ≈ 1,044 EUR/month (gross, 2022)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- General system of recognition - primary application
- EU Blue Card threshold
- 31,919 €/year
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Service and sales workers" in Greece: ≈ 1,044 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.
EU Blue Card salary threshold
Greece publishes a current EU Blue Card threshold of 31,919 €/year. It is the minimum salary for that work route, not what childcare workers earn.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 25). Childcare worker in Greece: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version fca2d0827cc6bd1fc7211aef13bb0b48]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/childcare-worker/greece/ 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 Greece: salary and recognition},
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date = {2026-10-25},
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